If you are constructing this TOC manually (and it sounds as if you are) and
using a left-aligned tab stop, you should be using a right-aligned one
instead (that is how the automatic TOCs are constructed).

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"michalaw" wrote in message
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I have a table of contents formatted thus:
Preface......................i
Chapter 1...................1
Chapter 2...................2
and so on.
The problem I am experiencing is that the small roman numeral, i, in the
first line is placed further to the right than the arabic numbers for the
subsequent chapters. (The leader dots are formatted with a right tab stop
at
5.11.) If I remember my college typography course correctly, I think this
is
perhaps occuring because the i character has a smaller m size than the
arabic
numbers. The difference is tiny, but our sharp-eyed editorial staff
insists
that it be fixed.
Does anyone know of a way to get a the i to line up exactly (on the left
side of the characters) with the arabic numbers? I've tried messing with
the
character spacing, but it doesn't seem to fix the problem. (I'm using
Word
2000.)