General ⇒ Table of contents alignment problem

[Dr. Doerke]

I'm using

\section*{textofsectionheading}
\addtocontents{toc}{textofsectionheading}

When I generate the table of contents, the first entry appears farther to the left than do the other entries. I moved different sections around and it always happens with the first section declaration. Any ideas as to how to fix this so that all entries are aligned to the left margin? Any ideas as to what is causing this?

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi,

try:

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\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{textofsectionheading}

Stefan

[Dr. Doerke]

Thank you. It worked for me. Now why? Whether or not I understand, I am appreciative.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Those are just different commands with different purpose, have a look at:

• \addcontentsline
• \addtocontents

Stefan

[Dr. Doerke]

What do I do when I want no dots and numbers using \addcontentsline ?
I can do this with other entries using \section*{textofsection}

[daleif]

see the tocloft package or switch to the memoir class

both have ToC configuration support

[Dr. Doerke]

I've checked the documentation and I've coded:
\usepackage{tocloft]
...
\section*{sectiontext}
\renewcommand{\@dotsep}{10000}
\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{sectiontext}

and I've tried:
\section*{sectiontext}
\renewcommand{cftXdotsep}{\cftnodots}
\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{sectiontext}

and I've tried inserting {\cftnodots} in the \addcontentsline expression
but I am not getting anywhere.

Sorry to be a persistent questioner.

[daleif]

the configuration applies to the \tableofcontents, thus it has to go before \tableofcontents, otherwise you will have to write it to the .toc file.

[Dr. Doerke]

The thing is I want my sections to appear in the toc with no dots and no page numbers. However I do want my subsections to appear with dots and page numbers. So I don't want nodots for the entire toc.

[daleif]

read the manual for tocloft again and understand the meaning of X, and by reading the manual you will learn to remove the dots for sections only.