Nested styles within TOC - a newbie

Hi, I wonder if someone can help with a TOC query. It will involve nested character styles which I've not really got my head around
Currently there are two paragraph styles in the book to appear in the TOC in their own styles (so four paragraph styles in total - Chapter Number, Chapter Name, Chapter Number TOC and Chapter Name TOC).
They currently generate in their simplest form in the TOC as:
Chapter 1
An introduction to your new home ................8
I simply want the chapter name to appear on the same line.
Chapter 1 An introduction to your new home ................8
Thanks for any help anyone.

Peter Spier wrote:
Peter G,
I don't do XML, but I think the answer is basically the same as initially outlined. If it's one paragraph with some sort of magic line break character, that character is going to be carried into the TOC and create a line break there as well, and if it's two paragraphs sepatated by a magic separator, it's going to remain two paragraphs. Break characters don't just disappear on their because we decide we don't want to see them -- they have to be deleted, and styles cannot add or remove text, only change the formatting.
The neat thing about the No Break style (which never occurred to me before this morning), is precisly that it doesn't depend on any break characters to work, only the supposition that the second part of the paragraph will be too long to fit unbroken on the same line as the first part, and that it will fit on a new line. ID simply breaks the text at that point because it has no better choice. This is not, unfortunately, guaranteed to work for all paragraphs as it depends on column widths and text length to work in combination to force the break.
The No Break approach is a good solution if the TOC text frame and paragraph properties can be made to wrap at the allowed break position.
I was trying to find a counterpart to FrameMaker's run-in paragraph feature, but as you verified, it's not possible. FYI, here's how it looks in FM:
The source document uses ChapNum paragraph format (aka "ID paragraph style" for "Chapter number 1:" which is all in the autonumber part of the paragraph. The ChapTitl paragraph format is used for the "Chapter title" text.
As in ID, the two paragraph formats/styles are designated to be extracted by the TOC process. FM's TOCs are always generated as independent files. In the TOC document, ChapNum format/style becomes ChapNumTOC, and ChapTitle format/style becomes ChapTitleTOC. The *TOC styles can be styled differently from their source paragraphs. So, ChapNumTOC is given the run-in property which allows the next paragraph in the document - here it's the ChapTitlTOC paragraph with "Chapter Title" text - to follow it on the same line. However, you can see the green pilcrow at the end of the ChapNumTOC paragraph, which identifies it as a true paragraph, that happens to lack the property that starts it on a new line. Once the TOC's formatted properly, every subsequent TOC process is completely "hands off," i.e., no manual touch up needed, nothing to forget. This is why I keep submitting an enhancement request for this ability, and also encourage others.
Regards,
Peter
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