Okay, thanks for sending the setup, that helps a lot as I can just look at the settings and see what is going on immediately. Here are my notes:
- You have indents in your original ToC to show major and minor sections. If you want to keep those, rather than having a flat list, then do so in the lower right corner of the Formatting tab in Section Layouts: click the brush icon and enable the Preserve indents setting.
- Now for why the page numbers aren’t aligned right, there are too many tab stops in the body text formatting, which you can see by clicking into the gibberish text in the Formatting tab. The Tab spacer being inserted after each ToC title (back in the editor), is meant to hit a right-aligned tab on the right edge of the page, so it won’t work if there are bunch of left-align tab stops in the way—even if there was a right-aligned tab, which there isn’t.
- What I would suggest is to look at how the original text’s formatting is designed, just put the cursor on a flush left line, like “Introduction”, and use the
Format ▸ Paragraph ▸ Tabs and Indents...menu command. See how this line has one single 15.87cm tab stop, which is set to right alignment? The measurement might be different depending on your paper settings and margins in the compile setup. If you make it too wide, often the result is for the number to drop to the next line.
So, this kind of illustrates what I was saying before, about how it’s going to be a bit tough to start with a compile format designed to print a basic outline of your binder titles, and work all the way up to a thesis or book design with it. Nothing is set up yet (or set up intentionally wrong for that, like having no page numbering or running headers), and that will mean problem solving and investigation will need to be done for almost every facet.
As a learning exercise, starting with nothing can be very good, but you’ll have to be ambitious about wanting to do that as a thing in and of itself rather than a more practical task of just trying to get a thesis out.
Well that’s my opinion on it anyway. To me it seems like it would be a lot less work to start with “Non-Fiction Manuscript (Times)” and add or change the few things you want different, such as single-spaced lines, the “<$hn>” counter instead of the “Chapter One” style counter, and so on—then it would be to copy all of the subtle little things it has set up, into Enumerated Outline.
One other thing worth considering is that if I were needing a table of contents, I wouldn’t be using this feature for the final version of it. It’s fine for quick proofing, but you’ll get better looking and more dynamic result by using a word processor ToC. In another post, I provide an explanation and some instructions on how to do that.