Text Formatting ⇒ Table of Contents Formatting

[samness25]

Hi,
I've been struggling with this for a couple months now. I'm creating a report and I've inserted

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\titleformat{\section}{\normalfont\Large\bfseries}{\thesection.0}{1em}{}

in order to make my section headers look like 1.0 Mission Definition, but when the toc compiles it comes up as 1 Mission Definition.

Does anyone know how to fix this? It would be greatly appreciated.

[gmedina]

Hi,

since you want this new format to affect not only the tiles but also the ToC entries (and the references, I assume) then you have to redefine the \thesection command; of course, this will also imply increasing the spacing between the number of the sections and their titles in the ToC and perhaps a redefinition of the commands corresponding to lower sectional units: \thesubsection, etc. (this last part is not clear from your post (and I didn't include it in my example code), since you didn't give any hint about the meaning of the suffix ".0" added to the counter for sections).

An example on how to proceed using article as the document class:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{titlesec}

\renewcommand\thesection{\arabic{section}.0}

\titleformat{\section}{\normalfont\Large\bfseries}{\thesection}{1em}{}

\makeatletter
\renewcommand*\l@section[2]{%
  \ifnum \c@tocdepth >\z@
    \addpenalty\@secpenalty
    \addvspace{1.0em \@plus\p@}%
    \setlength\@tempdima{2em}%default: 1.5em
    \begingroup
      \parindent \z@ \rightskip \@pnumwidth
      \parfillskip -\@pnumwidth
      \leavevmode \bfseries
      \advance\leftskip\@tempdima
      \hskip -\leftskip
      #1\nobreak\hfil \nobreak\hb@xt@\@pnumwidth{\hss #2}\par
    \endgroup
  \fi}
\makeatother

\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
\section{Test section}

\end{document}

Remark: the redefinition of the \l@section command might be useless if your document class is not article. Please do include in your posts information about the document class you are using.

[samness25]

I'm sorry, I should have explained everything.

I need the TOC to show

1.0 Mission Definition
1.1 Mission Segmet Summary
1.1.1 Phase I
etc...

The reason for the sections containing the .0 is merely because the english professor grading our technical report wants it that way....

[gmedina]

Again, which is the document class used? And, in "1.1.1 Phase I", what do the digits represent? I mean, do the leftmost "1" correspond to a sectional unit defined via \chapter, and do the middle "1" correspond from a \section command, etc?

[samness25]

Oh...sorry. I'm using an aritcle. The first 1 is the section number the second 1 is the subsection and the third 1 is the subsubsection.

[gmedina]

Then simply use the default settings:

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\documentclass{article}

\begin{document}
\tableofcontents

\section{Mission Definition}
\subsection{Mission Segment Summary}
\subsubsection{Phase I}

\end{document}

Adding this line:

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\titleformat{\section}{\normalfont\Large\bfseries}{\thesection}{1em}{}

to your document won't have a visible effect since that line produces the default behaviour for the titles of the section in the article class.

If you are trying to define some special format for the title of sections, please describe it and we will suggest you some options.

[samness25]

So the article class would probably not be ideal for this then. All right. I've figured out how to change the section headers throughout the paper. What I can't get to update is the TOC for those section headers.

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\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\usepackage[a4paper]{geometry}
\geometry{top=1.0in, bottom=1.0in, left=1.5in, right=1.0in}

% Load packages for individual typesetting needs (e.g. special fonts)
\usepackage[centertags]{amsmath}
\usepackage{amsfonts}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{amsthm}
\usepackage[mathcal]{euscript}
\usepackage{array}
\usepackage{bm}
\usepackage{enumerate}
\usepackage{graphicx}

\usepackage{textcomp}
\usepackage[pdfborder={0 0 0},colorlinks=true,urlcolor=blue,linkcolor=blue,
            bookmarks=false,bookmarksnumbered=true,pdfstartview=FitH,
            breaklinks=true,pagebackref=true]{hyperref}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\usepackage{chngcntr}
\usepackage{setspace}
\usepackage{titlesec}
\usepackage{tocloft}

\pagestyle{fancy}


\pdfpagewidth 8.5in
\pdfpageheight 11in

\chead{\thepage\ of 10}
\cfoot{}
\lfoot{}
\rfoot{}

\titleformat{\section}{\normalfont\Large\bfseries}{\thesection.0}{1em}{}

\renewcommand{\labelitemii}{$\cdot$}
\renewcommand\contentsname{Table of Contents}
\renewcommand\listfigurename{List of Graphics}
\renewcommand\listtablename{List of Tables}
\renewcommand{\cftfigfont}{Figure }
\renewcommand{\cfttabfont}{Table }



\counterwithin{figure}{section}
\counterwithin{table}{section}

% Format page layout
\pdfpagewidth 8.5in
\pdfpageheight 11in

% Begin typesetting ...
\begin{document}
\input{title}

\rhead{Mission Document}
\lhead{Eagle Nest}

\pagebreak
\pagenumbering{roman}
\begin{doublespace}
\addtocontents{toc}{\protect\thispagestyle{fancy}}
\tableofcontents
\end{doublespace}

\pagebreak
\begin{doublespace}
\addtocontents{lot}{\protect\thispagestyle{fancy}}
\listoffigures
\listoftables
\end{doublespace}

\pagebreak
\pagenumbering{arabic}
\setcounter{page}{1}

\pagebreak[4]
\vspace{0.25in}
\section{Mission Definition}
\input{file.tex}

\end{document}

The file.tex is essentially just filled with the \subsection{} and \subsubsection{}. Should I be using a different class for my document or can I somehow force the TOC to match up to what I want the the section, subsection, and subsubsection to do?

[gmedina]

I am so sorry. IN my previous reply I forgot about the subsection counter starting in zero; for this, simply set the counter to -1 just before the first subsection of each section:

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\documentclass{article}

\begin{document}
\tableofcontents

\section{Test section}
\setcounter{subsection}{-1}
\subsection{Mission Definition}
\subsection{Mission Segment Summary}
\subsubsection{Phase I}

\end{document}

[samness25]

Thank you for your help! You are quite amazing! You did in a few hours what I've been trying to do all semester. Thank you times a million.