Page Layout ⇒ Extra dot in ToC. Why ?

[Cham]

I'm getting an extra dot in the ToC, from this MWE code. Why ?

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\documentclass[11pt,letterpaper,twoside]{article}
\usepackage{microtype}
\usepackage[total={6in,10in},left=1.5in,top=0.5in,includehead,includefoot]{geometry}
\usepackage{tocloft}
\renewcommand{\cftsecleader}{\cftdotfill{\cftdotsep}}  % Add ... to sections
\renewcommand{\cftsecpresnum}{\hfill}  % To define a constant space
	\renewcommand{\cftsecaftersnum}{\hspace*{8pt}}
	\addtolength{\cftsecnumwidth}{8pt}

\begin{document}
\tableofcontents

\newpage
\section{Title}
Blabla

\newpage
\section{Title}
Blabla

\newpage
\section{Title}
Blabla

\newpage
\section{Title}
Blabla

\newpage
\section{Title}
Blabla

\newpage
\section{Title}
Blabla

\newpage
\section{Title}
Blabla

\newpage
\section{Title}
Blabla

\newpage
\section{Title}
Blabla

\newpage
\section{Title}
Blabla
\end{document}

Here's a preview with the extra dot shown in red :

extra-dot.jpg (33.63 KiB) Viewed 3190 times

This is weird ! If I change a few lines in the code, the extra dot may be gone, or may stay there. I don't understand what is happening here. Any idea ?

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Cham!

Interesting. I guess 11 is less wide than 10 and so there's just enough space to have one more dot filled in. However, I guess that should not happen because the boxes with the page numbers should have a fixed width.

A quick way of getting rid of the dot would be setting a slightly larger page number width yourself, such as:

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\makeatletter
\renewcommand{\@pnumwidth}{1.5em}
\makeatother

Stefan

[Cham]

Thanks Stefan.

It's working nicely, but it's weird to me (I would never understand that kind of LaTeX coding ! ). Is this a kind of hack ?

[Cham]

Stefan,

is there another way (i.e. simpler ?) of doing the same ToC style, using another package ?

While your solution is working great and solved my issue, I may be interested in using something like titletoc instead of tocloft. How would you define the same ToC style ?

[rais]

If I turn protrusion off---without changing \@pnumwidth---it seems to work in the TOC:

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[...]
\microtypesetup{protrusion=false}%
\tableofcontents
\clearpage
\microtypesetup{protrusion=true}%
\section{Title}
[...]

KR
Rainer