A contents page with dot leaders

A contents page whose entries are led to their page numbers by dots the layout draws.

A contents page: chapter titles on the left, page numbers on the right, and a row of dots leading the eye from one to the other. The dots are not typed into the text. Each entry asks for a row of them, and the layout fills whatever room the entry leaves free.

That is the difference between a contents page that survives and one that does not. Edit a title, translate the document, set it in another font, and the dots still meet the numbers, because their count was never a property of the text — it was worked out from the room left over.

What this example shows

• Rows of dots measured and filled by the layout, never typed by hand.
• Titles on the left and page numbers hard against the right.
• Entries that survive translation without the dots going wrong.

The code, in full

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The document itself

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What this document weighs

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Now	41,580 bytes
Saved	62.8 %

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