Page Layout ⇒ Dots in contents

[tdc]

Hi there, i've been working with a friend teaching them latex, and some thing we came up against was trying to include a series of dots between an entry in the table of contents and the page number.

I.e

Chapter 1. First Chapter..............................1

We're working in the amsbook class, and here's a MWE

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\documentclass{amsbook}

% \usepackage{titletoc}
% \contentsmargin{2.55em}
% \dottedcontents{chapter}[1.5em]{}{2.3em}{1pc}
% \dottedcontents{section}[1.5em]{}{2.3em}{1pc}
% \dottedcontents{subsection}[3.8em]{}{3.2em}{1pc}

%\usepackage{tocloft}

\begin{document}
\tableofcontents

\chapter{Better Title}
	\section{Lower title}
		\subsection{Longer Title}
\chapter{next title} 

\end{document}

Also, does anyone know how, instead of getting

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1.1 This is a picture                          1

to get

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Figure 1.1 This is a picture                          1

in the list of figures?

Cheers, Tim

[gmedina]

Hi,

the titletoc package gives you solutions for both problems.

[tdc]

Sorry, forgot to say that i've tried both Titletoc and tocloft both of which give errors (the code i'm using is given in the MWE above, with the two versions commented out)

the errors are about having missing } and then it complains that there are too many!???!!

[frabjous]

I'm afraid the amsbook class seems to be incompatible with tocloft. The following, for example, works fine:

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\documentclass{book}

\usepackage{tocloft}
\renewcommand{\cftchapdotsep}{\cftdotsep}

\begin{document}
\tableofcontents

\chapter{Better Title}
   \section{Lower title}
      \subsection{Longer Title}
\chapter{next title}

\end{document}

The package would also have a solution to your issues with the list of figures.

Is the amsbook class necessary?

[tdc]

ish, partly because there's lots of errors cropping up when i change the class, partly due to the formatting of things like the chapter headings which i'm not sure how to recreate.

(interestingly, i'm coming across and error i've never seen anything like before

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Something's wrong--perhaps a missing \item. ...e {chapter}{\numberline {1}Introduction}{1}

)

[Juanjo]

It seems that, in the amsbook documentclass, toc lines are produced by the macro \@tocline, which has the following definition:

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\def\@tocline#1#2#3#4#5#6#7{\relax
  \ifnum #1>\c@tocdepth % then omit
  \else
    \par \addpenalty\@secpenalty\addvspace{#2}%
    \begingroup \hyphenpenalty\@M
    \@ifempty{#4}{%
      \@tempdima\csname r@tocindent\number#1\endcsname\relax
    }{%
      \@tempdima#4\relax
    }%
    \parindent\z@ \leftskip#3\relax \advance\leftskip\@tempdima\relax
    \rightskip\@pnumwidth plus4em \parfillskip-\@pnumwidth
    #5\leavevmode\hskip-\@tempdima #6\nobreak\relax
    \hfil\hbox to\@pnumwidth{\@tocpagenum{#7}}\par
    \nobreak
    \endgroup
  \fi}

If you replace \hfil (4th line from below) by, say, \dotfill, you get dots in the every toc entry. Perhaps it would be necessary a more involved macro to put dots only for certain entries (say, for example, for sections, subsections,..., but not for parts and chapters). To this end, one could take into account the first argument of \@tocline, which is the level entry ( -1 for part, 0 for chapter and so on).

[tdc]

Thanks for this, i tried adding the definition in with the change from hfil to dot fill however it doesn't seem to be picked up when i compile

[Juanjo]

The following example should work. Every TOC entry, except parts, has a dotted line.

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\documentclass{amsbook}

\makeatletter
\def\@tocline#1#2#3#4#5#6#7{\relax
  \ifnum #1>\c@tocdepth % then omit
  \else
    \par \addpenalty\@secpenalty\addvspace{#2}%
    \begingroup \hyphenpenalty\@M
    \@ifempty{#4}{%
      \@tempdima\csname r@tocindent\number#1\endcsname\relax
    }{%
      \@tempdima#4\relax
    }%
    \parindent\z@ \leftskip#3\relax \advance\leftskip\@tempdima\relax
    \rightskip\@pnumwidth plus4em \parfillskip-\@pnumwidth
    #5\leavevmode\hskip-\@tempdima #6\nobreak\relax
    \ifnum#1<0\hfill\else\dotfill\fi\hbox to\@pnumwidth{\@tocpagenum{#7}}\par
    \nobreak
    \endgroup
  \fi}
\makeatother


\begin{document}
\stepcounter{tocdepth} %include subsections in TOC
\tableofcontents

\part{Learning \LaTeX}
\chapter{Boxes}
\section{Horizontal boxes}
\section{Vertical boxes}
\chapter{The table of contents}
   \section{Dotted lines are not so difficult to obtain}
      \subsection{Really?}
      \subsection{Yes, of course}
\chapter{Other stuff} 

\end{document}

[tdc]

I forgot the makeatother / makeatletter oops


Thanks very much, this is perfect!!

[tdc]

I was wondering whether there was a similar edit to add the word "figure" in front of the numbering in the LOF?

Cheers,
Tim