Formatting table of contents

I've gotten the gist of creating a table of contents, but I'd like to add chapter and sub-section number markers before each title. I've bolded what I'm talking about:
1. Chapter One
     1.1 sub section
     1.2 sub section
     1.3 sub section
2. Chapter Two
    2.1 sub section
     2.2 sub section
     2.3 sub section
Is this possible? How can this be done?
Thank you

The TOC is formatted automatically and is what it is. You can change the appearance and formatting of the TOC text but not the text itself which is picked up from the document.
The only work around is to export the TOC and reimport it as plain text and then amend it.
Peter

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Melissa,
Both Riley and I are assuming that you use a standard format for your TOCs.
When we say "generate a new TOC." that means adding a TOC to the book file, then right-clicking it and running the Set Up TOC procedure by selecting what component file tags you want to list.
After you generate that TOC, TOC-specific tags are generated so that Heading1 in your chapters is represented as a Heading1TOC tag.
Where there may be a problem is if the formatted TOC lists different tags than your book does. If your book has H1s, for instance, and the previous book had Heading1s, the tags aren't going to automatically match up.
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I'm using a TOC that Pages '09 created. I'd like to set page numbers to the right side and replace the two carriage returns after a chapter with one carriage return. Rather than this:
Chapter 1 5
Title of Chapter 1 5
Chapter 2 25
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Chapter 3 40
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First you haveto use different Styles for the Chapter and the Title of chapter. Then you can change them separetly.
Turn on the Show invisibles in the View menu to see that you have a tab on each line. When you have change to two heading styles you can move or add a tab stop for the chapters. You can also uncheck numbers (page numbers that is) for Title of Chapter in the Inspector palette > Document > TOC
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That is not the issue.
Pages/OSX does not save files with crop marks and bleeds.
It also by default saves transparency, which is involved in a lot of Pages' better features, at a rubbishy 72 dpi resolution.
It also makes it extremely difficult to maintain mono-color like black only text, has no spot color and makes color management opaque.
It really is only meant for amateur publishing and printing to your desktop printer.
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All the documentation I have read for created EPUB are to export XHTML, rather than DTBook. I'm not sure if it follows the same rules as EPUB for XHTML.
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We're using Hyperion Financial Reporting to generate carefully formatted books of reports. Users complain about the default table of contents in these books, specifically:
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Hi Nathan
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http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E17236_01/epm.1112/fr_webadmin.pdf
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Thanks Jerrold,
I have certianly considered this an option if I can't get this resolved before I have to turn in my paper.
I bought Pages to write my thesis, espcially since I have to include a lot of capitoned images. I expected an Apple program to run smoothly and be intuitive, but it has been buggy at times, freezing up, and issues like the wacky TOC formatting from changing the margin size don't make sense.
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First off, thanks for the book K T, it's a great edition to my learning how to use iBooks Author, but it was no help. After playing around and becoming quite frustrated I started digging around in the the TOC I've figured out how to format the TOC a cross the entire book - getting rid of the formatting issue awonacott is experiencing. I too am (was) experiencing that TOC formatting issue. Here's what I did to rectify it:
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I refused to just deal with this crazy formatting, as I believe you should be able to add as many sections as you please without having to trim it down to fit within a 10 sections.
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Preview: Table of Contents is ignoring formatting

Preview is missing a feature. Before going further I’ll admit it is a minor feature, but nonetheless, the omission needles me. The bug description below is deliberately thorough, to allow other to reproduce the problem and variations of it.
PDFs exhibiting the problem have been made with the following 18 lines of PostScript.
/PageWidth 72 def /PageHeight 432 def
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0 setgray
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The PostScript is also available at http://www.jdawiseman.com/papers/bugs/20130918_Preview_Bug.ps
I have converted the PostScript to PDF using Adobe Distiller 8 (the latest version on my Mac), to make
http://www.jdawiseman.com/papers/bugs/20130918_Preview_Bug_Adobe8.pdf
and also with the GhostScript installed at PS2PDF.com to make
http://www.jdawiseman.com/papers/bugs/20130918_Preview_Bug_PS2PDF.pdf
The relevant line of the PostScript ends “/F i /OUT pdfmark”, which makes an ‘Outline’ item, that is, an item which appears with View > Table of Contents. Observe the “/F i”, which sets the formatting, over the four pages i looping from 0 to 3 in steps of 1. This /F defines the Formatting: 0 = Plain, 1 = Italic, 2 = Bold, 3 = Bold and Italic; as explained on page of 27 of http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/pdfs/pdfmarkReference_v9.pdf
Viewed in Preview 6.0.1 (765.6) on OS X 10.8.4 this looks like
http://www.jdawiseman.com/papers/bugs/20130918_Preview_Bug_Preview.png
Oops: formatting ignored. Me needled.
But in Adobe Professional 8 the two PDFs look like:
http://www.jdawiseman.com/papers/bugs/20130918_Preview_Bug_Adobe8_Acrobat.png
http://www.jdawiseman.com/papers/bugs/20130918_Preview_Bug_PS2PDF_Acrobat.png
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Feedback

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