Document Classes ⇒ \tableofcontents in book class space issue

[4fingers]

Hi,

I am currently using the Book.cls to create my table of contents but after adjusting a few things I see that the section number is overlapping into the title. I have uploaded an image so you can see for youself.

Does anyone have any idea where the latex is that controls the spacing bettween the section number and the tile?

Thanks

[spiegboy]

use tocloft package, you can play with every possible setting concerning toc.

[4fingers]

Thanks for the suggestion,
It seems I need this

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\@dottedtocline{seclevel}{indent}{numwidth}

With an exmaple being:

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\newcommand*{\l@section}{\@dottedtocline{1}{1.5em}{2.3em}}

I am fairly new to Latex so when I try and include that line I just get

! LaTeX Error: Command \l@section already defined.
Or name \end... illegal,.

Any ideas what I am doing wrong?

Thanks

EDIT:
I managed to fix it by doing this:

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\makeatletter
\renewcommand*\l@section{\@dottedtocline{1}{0em}{3em}}
\makeatother

[localghost]

This could have been done much easier.

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\setlength{\cftsecnumwidth}{3em}

Adapt the length if necessary.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten

[4fingers]

Thanks for the suggestion but that pushes the page number to the right as well.

[localghost]

Thanks for the suggestion but that pushes the page number to the right as well.

That's an issue I can't comprehend. Consider the following example.

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\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,english]{book}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage[includeheadfoot,margin=2cm]{geometry}
\usepackage{tocloft}
\usepackage{blindtext}

\setlength{\cftsecnumwidth}{3em}

\begin{document}
  \frontmatter
  \tableofcontents
  \mainmatter
  \Blinddocument
\end{document}

Build a minimal working example (MWE) that shows the misbehaviour.

[4fingers]

Its Ok, as long as my previous method works I dont mind if your suggested method returns different results that you might expect.

One thing I have found is that I really only need to adjust the numwidth on the first table of contents. To save space am I able to detect if I am on the first table of contents, in which case apply a differnt numwidth to all the other table of contents?

THanks

[localghost]

Its Ok, as long as my previous method works I dont mind if your suggested method returns different results that you might expect. [...]

As long as my method yields unexpected results in your document, your code is flawed.