General ⇒ How to set the tableofcontents texts

[chandangiri]

when I am using the \tableofcontents after \maketitle in a report documentclass it creates the Table of contents ok. But as the chapter title is long, in table of contents the page numbers are not in proper indentation and the hedaings are make a long line of text. How to control the text in table of contents so that eevrything should be in proper form?
Please suggest.

[gmedina]

You can use the optional argument of the sectional commands: For \chapter, use

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\chapter[Short name]{Long name}

"Short name" will appear in the TOC whilst "Long name" will appear in the body of your document.

[chandangiri]

will it be same for sections also? Similarly in the list of figures too how it can be controlled? Using \caption{Short name}{Longe name}?

[localghost]

Of course it will. These short titles also will appear in the headers if you declared some. And so do the short forms of captions in the LoF and LoT.

[chandangiri]

Thanks buddy it works...