In my InDesign document, figure captions are bold when they appear in the body of the document, and non-bold when they appear in the list of figures. But when I need to italicize text in a figure caption, this results in bold text in the list of figures.
How can I have bold italic text in the figure caption and non-bold italic text in the list of figures?
Here's my setup:
- InDesign CS5
- The paragraph style for figure captions sets the font style to bold
- The list of figures is an automatically-generated table of contents. The paragraph style for TOC entries has a font style of regular.
Styles I'm using
Paragraph styles
Figure Caption: Font family: Helvetica. Font style: Bold.
List of Figures: Font family: Helvetica. Font style: Regular.
Character styles
Oblique: Font style: Oblique.
Bold + Oblique: Font style: Bold Oblique.
Except where I state otherwise, text uses a character style of [None].
Desired result
This is what I want to have:
Caption: Figure 7. Excerpt from Routes I Know
List of figures: Figure 7. Excerpt from Routes I Know..................31
First Try
I used the Oblique character style to italicize the text in the caption. So the Figure Caption paragraph style makes the text bold, and the Oblique character style makes (part of) the text italic. The resulting text is italic, but not bold.
Caption: Figure 7. Excerpt from Routes I Know
List of figures: Figure 7. Excerpt from Routes I Know..................31
Second try
I used the Bold + Oblique character style on the text in the caption. Both the bold and italic apply to the list of figures.
Caption: Figure 7. Excerpt from Routes I Know
List of figures: Figure 7. Excerpt from Routes I Know..................31
EDIT: Added more info about the paragraph styles I'm using