General ⇒ Calling \@starttoc

[jarnhus]

Hello,

I encountered a slight problem, when I started playing around with the look of Table of Contents.

The simple example I tried was

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\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{report}
\def\tableofcontents{\section*{\centering Contents}\@starttoc{toc}}
\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
\chapter{A}
\chapter{B}
\section{B1}
\end{document}

I get the error

!You can't use '\spacefactor' in vertical mode.
\@->\spacefactor
\@m
l.4 \tableofcontents


Can anyone point me in the direction of my screw up.

Cheers!

[gmedina]

Hi,

the command \@starttoc contains the special character @; to be able to manipulate commands containing this character in the preamble of your document, you need to enclose the relevant part using \makeatletter...\makeatother.

Try the following:

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\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{report}
\makeatletter
\def\tableofcontents{\section*{\centering Contents}\@starttoc{toc}}
\makeatother
\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
\chapter{A}
\chapter{B}
\section{B1}
\end{document}

[jarnhus]

That did the trick... Thank you very much!!