Page Layout ⇒ Roman chapter numbers

[jonathan webley]

I would like chapter numbers to be in roman numerals - I, II, etc. However, in the autogenerated table of contents the space for the chapter numbers is not big enough and the larger numbers (VIII) overwrite the chapter name. Is there any way of increasing the space for the numbers?

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\documentclass{book}
\renewcommand{\thechapter}{\Roman{chapter}}
\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
\chapter{One}
\chapter{Two}
\chapter{Three}
\chapter{Four}
\chapter{Five}
\chapter{Six}
\chapter{Seven}
\chapter{Eight}
\end{document}

[josephwright]

http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=tocloft

[jonathan webley]

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. I've worked out that I need to add:

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\setlength\cftchapternumwidth{3em}

and that works fine.