BUG: 4.5 RC1: Non-Heading paragraphs in PBs getting into TOC somehow

Paragraphs that are Normal style (i.e., not any Heading style) in a PB are winding up in the TOC undesireably. Here's an example of the outcome:

This is what that part of the document looked like in Word:

Incidentally, most of the rest of those entries in the TOC shouldn't be there either, because they are not set up as Heading styles either. However it so happens that they are headings semantically, and I do want them in the TOC, but I would have thought I'd have to format them as Heading 1, 2, 3... to get them there. This is an enormous document (over 2000 pages in Word) that I'm converting, so it's a matter of convenience for now that all of those are in the TOC. Is that by design? Does Logos have some heuristic to figure out what looks like a heading even if it isn't formatted with a heading style? If so, and if I don't want something to be in the TOC that would be automatically picked up by some criterion I have yet to figure out, how can I prevent it from being in the TOC?

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Robert M. Warren

Hi Rosie:

I've built a few hundred PBs and have noticed many times where items wind up in the TOC that weren't formatted in Word as Headings of some type. But probably 98% of the time they are serendipitously providentially appropriate for a TOC entry anyway. I don't use Logos professionally or academically, so I'm not real fussy about many elements (basically, I want to have Bible milestones & TOC entries), which is how I've had time to build so many of them.

To prevent it, I suspect you would need to de-emphasize the paragraph by applying Normal and/or removing bold or italics. But that would mess up the look and feel of the document. (And you probably already thought of that.)

Rosie Perera

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/328610#Comment_328610

To prevent it, I suspect you would need to de-emphasize the paragraph by applying Normal and/or removing bold or italics. But that would mess up the look and feel of the document. (And you probably already thought of that.)

Yes indeed. I wanted to try to maintain the formatting as it came to me from the original source. Have you discovered what formats wind up in the TOC? Is it centered paragraphs with larger than normal font size? It is good that it's providentially appropriate much of the time. I wonder if there could be some PB tag we could insert that would tell the PB compiler to ignore this paragraph as not appropriate for the TOC, in spite of its formatting?

Rosie Perera

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/328649#Comment_328649

Never mind. I discovered the problem. User error. Those paragraphs that I were not formatted in Heading style and yet were still ending up in the TOC were formatted with Outline Level 2 (I had copied the text from somewhere else and hadn't noticed that). I set the Outline Level to "Body Text" and voila. The PB built fine without those in the TOC.