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Someone wrote:
> What leader characters do you most commonly use in Tables
> of Contents? I use plain old periods [...]
> The reason I ask is that one of our engineers is updating our TOC
> generator and asked me what characters people typically use for
> leadering.
Here is the challenge for your engineers: you may want
the periods being vertically aligned, which is not always easy,
depending on the word processor you use (and the font you use,
proportional or monospaced).
FooBar toc entry . . . . . . . . number
dummy toc entry . . . . . . . . . number
^
-> periods are not vertically aligned: poor visual effect
FooBar toc entry . . . . . . . . number
dummy toc entry . . . . . . . . number
^
-> periods are vertically aligned: good visual effect
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