Page Layout ⇒ Page break in table of contents after chapter

[gandi]

Hello,

in my toc there is a page break directly after a chapter (and before the first section in this chapter), which looks a bit odd. See the attached PDF-output of the MWE below. I would rather have the page break before the chapter or after one or two sections in that chapter. Does anyone know how to achieve this?

I'm using LyX, but I'd say this is mainly a LaTeX issue.

LaTeX MWE of this:

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\documentclass[a4paper, 11pt]{scrbook}

\usepackage{setspace}
\onehalfspacing

\begin{document}

\tableofcontents

\chapter{Chapter One}
\section{Section One}
blabla
\section{Section Two}
blabla
\section{Section Three}
blabla
\section{Section Four}
blabla
\section{Section Five}
blabla
\section{Section Six}
blabla
\section{Section Seven}
blabla
\section{Section Eight}
blabla
\section{Section Nine}
blabla
\section{Section Ten}
blabla
\section{Section Eleven}
blabla
\section{Section Twelve}
blabla

\chapter{Chapter Two}
\section{Section One}
blabla
\section{Section Two}
blabla
\section{Section Three}
blabla
\section{Section Four}
blabla
\section{Section Five}
blabla
\section{Section Six}
blabla
\section{Section Seven}
blabla
\section{Section Eight}
blabla
\section{Section Nine}
blabla
\section{Section Ten}
blabla
\section{Section Eleven}
blabla
\section{Section Twelve}
blabla

\chapter{Chapter Three}
\section{Section One}
blabla
\section{Section Two}
blabla
\section{Section Three}
blabla
\end{document}

[meho_r]

This code of yours works fine on my machine, no break displayed in the PDF document you attached. I even imported the code in LyX and tested, still no problematic break. Can you provide your .lyx file?

[gandi]

Dear meho_r,

thanks for your reply. The LyX file where the problem occured first is my entire thesis, i.e. a bit bulky. That's why I tried to see if it is reproducible in a simple LaTeX file.

After you've told me that my MWE works fine for you I've tried it on a different machine (Win XP, MiKTeX) and the output was the way I want it, i.e. a page break before a chapter or after the first section, depending on how many entries there were.

So this seems to be related to the TeX Live installation on my other PC (running Ubuntu)... Has anyone experienced such a behaviour in TeX Live before? I might move this discussion to the Tex Live forum.

[localghost]

I tested your example with a TeX Live 2009 system on openSUSE 11.2 and the page break occurs as desired before the last chapter entry. So this behaviour is not distribution specific. It's very likely that this is caused by older package versions. Ubuntu is known for shipping and older version of TeX Live. Add the \listfiles command as very first line to your code and post the file list from the newly generated log.

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 *File List*
 scrbook.cls    2009/07/24 v3.04a KOMA-Script document class (book)
scrkbase.sty    2009/07/24 v3.04a KOMA-Script package (KOMA-Script-dependent basics and keyval usage)
 scrbase.sty    2009/07/24 v3.04a KOMA-Script package (KOMA-Script-independent basics and keyval usage)
  keyval.sty    1999/03/16 v1.13 key=value parser (DPC)
scrlfile.sty    2009/03/25 v3.03 KOMA-Script package (loading files)
tocbasic.sty    2009/06/08 v3.03b KOMA-Script package (handling toc-files)
scrsize11pt.clo    2009/07/24 v3.04a KOMA-Script font size class option (11pt)
typearea.sty    2009/07/24 v3.04a KOMA-Script package (type area)
setspace.sty    2000/12/01 6.7 Contributed and Supported LaTeX2e package
 ***********

Best regards
Thorsten

[gandi]

Thanks, Thorsten, that sounds very plausible.

Here's what I got:

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 *File List*
 scrbook.cls    2006/07/30 v2.95b KOMA-Script document class (book)
scrkbase.sty    2006/07/30 v2.95b KOMA-Script package (basics and keyval use)
scrlfile.sty    2006/03/28 v2.95 KOMA-Script package (loading files)
  keyval.sty    1999/03/16 v1.13 key=value parser (DPC)
    bk11.clo    2005/09/16 v1.4f Standard LaTeX file (size option)
typearea.sty    2006/07/30 v2.95b KOMA-Script package (type area)
setspace.sty    2000/12/01 6.7 Contributed and Supported LaTeX2e package
 ***********

[localghost]

As you can see, your version of KOMA Script is much older than mine. Seems to me that you have TeX Live 2007 installed. Think about updating the package manually or do a distribution upgrade. The current Ubuntu (10.04 »Lucid Lynx«) is shipped with TeX Live 2009.

[gandi]

You were right, Thorsten, after upgrading to Ubuntu 10.04 my MWE gave a satisfying result. However, in my thesis (written in LyX) the problem persisted. I have now reduced my thesis to another LaTeX MWE, which shows the problem:

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\documentclass[12pt,oneside,headsepline,tablecaptionabove]{scrbook}
%\documentclass[12pt,oneside,headsepline]{scrbook}
%\documentclass[12pt,oneside,tablecaptionabove]{scrbook}

\usepackage{setspace}
\onehalfspacing

\begin{document}

\tableofcontents{}

\chapter{Chapter One}
\section{Section One}
\section{Section Two}
\section{Section Three}
\section{Section Four}
\section{Section Five}
\section{Section Six}
\section{Section Seven}
\section{Section Eight}
\section{Section Nine}
\section{Section Ten}
\section{Section Eleven}

\chapter{Chapter Two}
\section{Section One}
\section{Section Two}
\section{Section Three}
\section{Section Four}

\chapter{Chapter Three}
\section{Section One}
\section{Section Two}
\section{Section Three}
\section{Section Four}
\section{Section Five}

\chapter{Chapter Four}
\section{Section One}
\section{Section Two}
\section{Section Three}
\section{Section Four}
\section{Section Five}
\section{Section Six}

\end{document}

It appears that the combination of headsepline and tablecaptionabove causes the problem, see attached output "toc.pdf". If I use one of the two \documentclass lines in the example above which are commented out it works fine. I get the same result using MiKTeX / Win XP.

[localghost]

I can comprehend the problem with your MWE. However, you should obtain a warning from the class in the log about an obsolete option. Note that the option assignment for the document class has changed significantly since Version 3 of KOMA Script. It uses now the »key=value« scheme. The problem disappears if you use the class compliant options.

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\documentclass[%
  12pt,
  oneside,
  headsepline,
  captions=tableabove
]{scrbook}

For further information on the new option system refer to the manual.

[gandi]

Great, that did the job, also in my LyX file. Thanks!