@john_miano: "I was wondering if there was any experience in using InDesign for legal briefs? The big twist in such documents is the table of authorities."
    @Peter_Spier: "I know nothing about legal briefs, but is the table of authorities similar to a table of contents or of figures? You can have multiple tables of contents with different names and data.
They're built by including paragraphs tagged with selected styles, so if you are able to assign a unique paragraph (not character)style to the authorities (presuming you need to list pages where they occur), it's just like making any other TOC.
If that doesn't work, I think there may be some scripts floating around that will do similar tasks based on character styles. I seem to remember Robert Tkaczyk having written something like that.
Peter"
    @NitroPress: "Legal papers have to have line numbers on every page, IIRC. The only tool that's ever done that smoothly is WordPerfect. It can be done in ID but only with some effort and some careful checking to be sure that it comes out correctly throughout the document.
I would not recommend ID for legal paper work."
    @john_miano: "In some jurisdictions they may have to have line numbers, but not in Federal or any that I practice in.
A TOA is a table containing the name of all cases, statutes and other authorities used in the document and the page reference.
One complex is that the reference in the table may be slighly different from that in the text.
The table entry may look liked
ABC v. XYZ, 123 F.3d 456 (12th Cir. 1992) .... 4, 5, 10, 16
The references in the text may look like
ABC v. XYZ, 123 F.3d 456, 460-461 (12th Cir. 1992)
ABC 123 F.3d at 465"
    @Peter_Spier: "This looks more like an index than a TOC. While you can have more than one TOC, ID limits you to a single internal index, but ID's indexing is not the only method if you know in advance what needs to be included.
I just used a script called IndexBrutal to add an index to a book. You start with a text file containing a list of the terms you want, and some formatting instructions if you want to change how the appear (for example you can reverse proper names, or list things as sub-topics, to a degree) and the script searches the document and builds an index of those terms which you can save as a new text file to place in its own story.
This is not a particularly subtle method, i.e. it only lists pages where the terms appear, not the following pages that may also be pertinent to the discussion, but it is pretty fast.
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Peter"
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