Separate list of tables in TOC for each chapter? [solved]

[llmunro]

I’m formatting a master document that is essentially three stand-alone chapters/essays. I have created the main TOC for the document as a whole without a problem BUT

Each chapter/essay has a bunch of tables and figures and the author has labeled these to be a part of the individual essay, rather than the document as a whole. So, essay #1 has Table 1, Table 2, Table 3. Essay #2 also has several tables, which are numbered Table 1, Table 2, Table 3. As these are stand alone essays, each independent from each other, I think that restarting the table numbering in each chapter makes sense. But here’s the question: can I create an Index of Tables for each individual essay that I could insert in the front matter? Is this even possible with LO? Page numbers, of course, have to be sequential throughout the document, so I don’t think I can turn off the text flow option to achieve this.

Any ideas or thoughts about how to best handle this in terms of formatting the master document? It wouldn’t be the end of the world to have tables numbered sequentially throughout the document as a whole, but I’m hoping for a more elegant way to do this.

Thanks much.
Lisa

[ajlittoz]

Please edit your question to describe the expected result.

Indexes already support per-chapter tables of figures, contents, … inside said chapter. Do you want to create one such table inside the TOC itself? Or do you want the global table of figures at head of the master (with only the problem of maintaining the tables in chapter order, which they do anyway)?

[llmunro]

Hello and thanks for the help. I would like to have the global table of figures at the head of the master reflect the chapter divisions. So, ideally an index of tables in the master document that lists Ch 1…Table 1…etc.; Ch 2…Table 1, Table 2, etc. Is this possible in LO?

[ajlittoz]

To make things clear, you’d like something like:

TOC
Chap 1 xxx
  Subchap 1.1 yyy
  Subchap 1.2 yyy
Chap 2 xxx
Chap 3 xxx
  Subchap 3.1 yyy

followed by

List of tables
In chap 1 (intentionally written different from the same in TOC to show it is not generated)
   Table 1 ttt
In chap 2
   Table 1 ttt
   Table 2 ttt
In chap 3
   Table 1 ttt

Unfortunately, this is not possible automatically. You can of course “unprotect” the index against manual changes. After that you can insert such “In chap …” inter-heading in the index, but as soon as you Tools>Update all your document, the manual insertions are erased.

The best workaround, IMHO, is to modify the table (or other “objects”) captions so that the number includes the chapter number. When you Insert>Caption, push the Options button to set the Level of chapter numbering.

You can later change this setting by Insert>Field>More Fields anywhere and deleting this insert afterwards. Go to the Variables tab, choose Type Number range and Select Table. You can change the Format or the Level in the Numbering by Chapter section.

The result is:

List of tables
   Table 1.1 ttt
   Table 2.1 ttt
   Table 2.2 ttt
   Table 3.1 ttt

This is the best “ersatz” I can propose. It persists through Tools>Update All.

You mentioned your document is made of a master and three subdocs. This implies you must configure chapter numbering prefix for captions in all your subdocs otherwise it will be absent from the data collected by the index engine.

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[llmunro]

Thank you so much! what you described is exactly what I’m trying to do and your work around makes sense. I’ll see if I can get it working to have the table captions include the chapter number. Appreciated.