General ⇒ Page Headers in TOC, LOF, LOT

[tennesseepaul]

Hello. This might be a lot to ask in one post but here it goes...

How does one generate a TOC which contains the word "CHAPTER" without a page number just before the list of chapters. Example:
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii
LIST OF TABLES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii
LIST OF FIGURES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix
CHAPTER
1. INTRODUCTION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

And from here the TOC goes to the second page which needs a header with the word "CHAPTER" left justified and "Page" right justified.

Similarly, the LOF and LOT needs headers (FIGURE and Page, TABLE and Page) on the second and following pages while long figure or table titles have hangning indents if more than one line.

I am using a modified class file based on the Report class. All I've found to date is "\addcontentsline{toc}{xchapter}{CHAPTER}" but this doesn't build the headers on the next page and it generates a page number after the "CHAPTER" word.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi,

concerning headers have a look at the fancyhdr package and its documentation.
Instead of \addcontentsline you could use \addtocontents.

Stefan

[tennesseepaul]

Stefan,

Thank you. I will read through the Fancy Header documentation.

I've tried the \addtocontents{toc}{CHAPTER} option but I receive errors. Where would this line be added?

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\tableofcontents
\listoftables
\listoffigures
  \addtocontents{toc}{CHAPTER}
\newpage
\clearpage
\pagenumbering{arabic}

\include{Introduction}

Returns:

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main.tex(5): Error: ! LaTeX Error: Something's wrong--perhaps a missing \item.
main.tex(5): Error: ! LaTeX Error: Something's wrong--perhaps a missing \item.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Inserting a protected paragraph break should fix it:

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\addtocontents{toc}{CHAPTER\protect\par}

Stefan

[tennesseepaul]

Thank you. That got it in there. But now it is indented. Is there a command which removes the indentation?

Thank you for all your help.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Here's no indentation:

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\documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{report}
\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
\addtocontents{toc}{CHAPTER\protect\par}
\chapter{Test}
\section{Section}
\end{document}

How's your code?

Stefan

[tennesseepaul]

Thank you. I actually ended up using

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\addtocontents{toc}{\noindent CHAPTER\protect\par}

This has been very helpful.

Do you know how to make the real long entries in LOF and LOT single space and hanging indent when they wrap to next line?

My LOF Code from my class file. I can't seem to get it. I'm so new at all of this I'm probably doing it all wrong to begin with:

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%% ----------------------------
%%    LIST OF FIGURES (LOF)
%% ----------------------------
\def\listoffigures{                                 %
   \chapter*{\listfigurename}                       %
   \vspace{-\baselineskip}                          %
   \vspace{-0.27in}                                 %
   FIGURE\nobreak\hfill{Page}\par                   %

   \begin{singlespace}                              % I added this line
   \hangindent=1.5em                                % this one
   \hangafter=1                                     % and this one
   \addcontentsline{toc}{xchapter}{\listfigurename} %
   \end{singlespace}                                % and then closed it with this.
                                                    % but it did nothing.
   \@starttoc{lof}}                                 %

   \def\l@figure{\@dottedtocline{0}{1em}{1.6em}}    %

   \def\l@figure#1#2{                               %
    {\leftskip 1em\relax \rightskip \@tocrmarg \parfillskip -\rightskip
     \parindent 1em\relax\@afterindenttrue          %
     \interlinepenalty\@M                           %
     \leavevmode                                    %
     \@tempdima 1.6em\relax                         %
     \advance\leftskip \@tempdima \null\nobreak\hskip -\leftskip
     {#1}\nobreak                                   %
     \leaders\hbox{$\m@th \mkern \@dotsep mu\hbox{.}\mkern \@dotsep mu$}%
     \hfill\nobreak                                 %
     \hb@xt@\@pnumwidth{\hfil\normalfont \normalcolor #2}%
     \par}}

[tennesseepaul]

Wow. Just got it using this:

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%% ----------------------------
%%    LIST OF FIGURES (LOF)
%% ----------------------------
%   
\def\listoffigures{                            %
   \chapter*{\listfigurename}                  %
   \vspace{-\baselineskip}
   \vspace{-0.27in}                            %% adjustment
   FIGURE\nobreak\hfill{Page}\par              %

   \addcontentsline{toc}{xchapter}{\listfigurename} %

   \@starttoc{lof}}

\def\l@figure{\@dottedtocline{0}{1em}{1.6em}}  %%%%%%%%%%%%%%% ADJUSTABLE! %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%


\def\l@figure#1#2
 {
  \begin{singlespace}
  \hangindent=1.5em
  \hangafter=1
  {
   \leftskip 1em\relax \rightskip \@tocrmarg \parfillskip -\rightskip
   \parindent 1em\relax\@afterindenttrue
   \interlinepenalty\@M
   \leavevmode
   \@tempdima 1.6em\relax
   \advance\leftskip \@tempdima \null\nobreak\hskip -\leftskip
   {#1}\nobreak
   \leaders\hbox{$\m@th \mkern \@dotsep mu\hbox{.}\mkern \@dotsep mu$}%
   \hfill\nobreak
   \hb@xt@\@pnumwidth{\hfil\normalfont \normalcolor #2}%
   \par
  }
  \end{singlespace}
 }