I found this today and just had to post it here.

I love it because it a) comes in an infographic, a hot trend in design right now and b) it talks about nerds and geeks!

From: MastersInIt.org

I’m a geek. Which one are you?

In my last post, I showed you how to use auto-numbering and cross-references to build numbered figures and references to those figures in preceding paragraphs.

Now I’m going to show you how to create a List of Figures in your PDF document using the work you did on the figures.

I’m going to make the following assumptions:

• You’ve already created auto-numbering for your figure captions (or you know how to do it)
• You’ve already created and applied a style class for those captions

If you don’t know how to do either of the steps above, click here to learn.

Now let’s create a List of Figures and make it look all nice and attractive. I’m going to build mine on the same page as my printed TOC.

So I open the Printed TOC topic and I add a List of… proxy.

Flare doesn’t care what you’re making a list of so you don’t need to worry about it not saying List of Figures.

It’s when the List-of Proxy window opens that you’ll tell Flare what kind of list you want. This is where the magic happens!

If you recall from my previous post, we set all figure captions to the p.caption style class. We’re going to use that here by selecting <p> as the tag name and caption as the Tag Class. With this setting, every p.caption in your project will appear in your list of figures.

Now, to determine how the list items will look, I selected TOCHeading from the pull-down menu. This is a <p> style class that I created for this effort. The settings for this class are:

p.TOCHeading
 {
 color: #000000;
 mc-heading-level: 1;
 mc-leader-format: '.';
 font-size: 11pt;
 font-family: Verdana;
 font-weight: normal;
 margin-bottom: 4pt;
 margin-top: 4pt;
 }

Note that this is in the Print medium!

Without these properties set, my List of Figures would look entirely different than the TOC and I needed them to look like a matched pair. Here’s the final result:

There are a couple of things to mention here:

• The TOCHeading style is designed to change the look of the list entries, not the figure captions themselves. In my project, my figure captions are italicized and 9pt, in the list of figures, the captions are normal and 11pt.
• Making these changes in the wrong medium will result in frustration, wasted time, and possibly the use of foul language. So keep confirming that you’re working the Print medium.
• Unlike Word you don’t have to remember to do that annoying Update TOC thing. Every time you build your print target, the page numbers will be recalculated. Yeah!

In my next post, I’ll talk about how to keep the Table of Contents and List of Figures headings from appearing in your TOC.