General ⇒ Help formatting TOC

[ganda97]

I'm writing my dissertation and need help with my TOC. My knowledge of Latex is very limited. The TOC needs to look like this example:

1. Introduction

1.1 Motivation
1.2 Method

2. Background

3. Stuff

3.1 Stuff 1
3.2 Stuff 2

(The sections should be indented to the first letter in the chapter's name. That part is working but I couldn't format it in the e-mail). My current TOC looks like this:

1. Introduction
1.1 Motivation
1.2 Method

2. Background

3. Stuff
3.1 Stuff 1
3.2 Stuff 2

I need to put a blank line between the chapter and first section in each chapter. This is what I'm using on my main tex file:

\documentclass[12pt]{report}
\usepackage{amsmath,amsthm,amsfonts,amscd} % Some packages to write mathematics.
\usepackage{eucal} % Euler fonts
\usepackage{verbatim} % Allows quoting source with commands.
\usepackage{setspace}
\usepackage[usenames]{color}
\usepackage{colortbl}
\usepackage{hhline}
\usepackage{longtable}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage[square]{natbib}

Thanks for looking and any help you may provide,

Ariel

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Ariel!

One simple way is to insert after a \chapter call and before the next \section one line:

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\addtocontents{toc}{\protect\addvspace{10pt}}

That inserts 10pt into the toc in the right place. Of course you may change that value.

If you dont whant to repeat that inside each chapter, you could redefine the \@chapter macro.

Stefan

[ganda97]

Thanks. That worked great. Just out of curiosity, how would I modify the \@chapter macro?

[Stefan Kottwitz]

You will find the definition of the \@chapter macro inside report.cls, it's defined like \def\@chapter[#1]#2{... \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{#1} ... more code ... }.
You could use \renewcommand\@chapter inside your preamble to modify this: copy the original code of \@chapter into it and insert \addtocontents{toc}{\protect\addvspace{10pt}} just after the original \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{#1}. And \makeatletter ... \makeatother around this redefinition is necessary because of the @-symbol inside the command names.

Stefan