Page Layout ⇒ tableofcontents, overfull \hbox, text over text problem

[trip3131]

What I did:

\renewcommand{\thesection}{{\sc Chapter \arabic{section}}}

to have other section styles and names.
The command \tableofcontents, creates a warning overfull \hbox.

Normally you get
1 Title section 1
etc.

Now I get:
(both on the same line, thus over each other)

Chapter 1
Title section 1

Thus it looks like:
Cha%$%$%$ection 1

It seems that the hbox for the sectionnumber 1 etc is not changed, so the "Chapter 1" does not fit.

Can you help me?

[gmedina]

Hi,

switch to a class implementing chapters (book, scrbook, memoir) and use the titlesec/titletoc packages to customize the headings and the ToC entries. A little example:

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\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{titlesec}
\usepackage{titletoc}

\titleformat{\chapter}[hang]
  {\normalfont\huge\bfseries}{\chaptertitlename\ \thechapter}{20pt}{\Huge}
\titlespacing*{\chapter} 
 {0pt}{20pt}{20pt}
\titlecontents{chapter}[0pt]
  {}{\contentspush{Chapter\hspace*{10pt}}\thecontentslabel\hspace*{1em}}
  {}{\titlerule*[1pc]{.}\contentspage}

\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
\chapter{Test chapter}

\end{document}