General ⇒ Change the font of the title in TOC

[yaami]

Hi all,

I'm trying to change the title in the table of contents. Latex is displaying the title in the TOC in bold font. But I want the title to be displayed in normal font.

Example:
TOC Current style:
Introduction
sections
TOC desired style:
INTRODUCTION
sections

I tried using the tocloft package but it does not change anything.

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\usepackage[titles]{tocloft}
\renewcommand{\cfttoctitlefont}{\normalfont\MakeUppercase}

How do I change this. Also is there a way to avoid hyphenation in the TOC, without changing the title

Thanks.

[frabjous]

The \cfttoctitlefont command is for typesetting the actual title of the table of contents, i.e., the word "Contents" at the top of the page, and since you have the titles option to the package, this is ignored anyway. The command you probably want to redefine is \cftchapfont for chapter titles in the TOC.

The current version of tocloft doesn't seem to support including commands that take arguments, not even at the end of the definition, and this rules out \MakeUppercase. (I could have sworn this used to work.) So here I redefine the relevant command so it does. I throw in a \nohyphens command from hyphenat.

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\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{hyphenat}
\usepackage[titles]{tocloft}
\renewcommand{\cftchapfont}{\normalfont\MakeUppercase}
\makeatletter
\renewcommand*{\l@chapter}[2]{%
  \ifnum \c@tocdepth >\m@ne
    \addpenalty{-\@highpenalty}%
    \vskip \cftbeforechapskip
    {\leftskip \cftchapindent\relax
     \rightskip \@tocrmarg
     \parfillskip -\rightskip
     \parindent \cftchapindent\relax\@afterindenttrue
     \interlinepenalty\@M
     \leavevmode
     \@tempdima \cftchapnumwidth\relax
     \let\@cftbsnum \cftchappresnum
     \let\@cftasnum \cftchapaftersnum
     \let\@cftasnumb \cftchapaftersnumb
     \advance\leftskip \@tempdima \null\nobreak\hskip -\leftskip
     {\cftchapfont {\nohyphens{#1}}}\nobreak
     \cftchapfillnum{#2}}%
  \fi}
  \makeatother
\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
\clearpage
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Introduction}
\chapter*{Introduction}
\section{A section}
\chapter{Another Which I'll Make Long, Really Very Wonderfully Long So It Might Get Hyphens}
\section{Another Section}
\end{document}

[yaami]

Thank you frabjous. That helped me a lot. Now the titles in the TOC are exactly how I wanted them to be.

Now I have 2 questions:
1. The number at the title in the TOC is still in bold.
Example:
INTRODUCTION 23
how do I make it look like
INTRODUCTION 23

2. Will adding the code that you provided change any other setting in the document. I'm using the report class. I'm still learning LaTeX, all I know now is using the packages already available. And I must say I could not make the head or tail of the code you provided. My apologies. So I just wanted to confirm if this has any effect on any other settings in the document.

Thanks a lot.

[frabjous]

Throw in:

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\renewcommand{\cftchappagefont}{\normalfont}

right before \begin{document}.

The code I gave shouldn't have any effect outside of the table of contents. It's just copied from the tocloft.sty file except with two very small changes.

[yaami]

Thanks a lot frabjous. That worked.

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