General ⇒ Long lines do not wrap around in Table of contents

[uetech]

Hi friends,

I recently started using latex and while I have faced many problems and found most of the solutions, there is still a problem I cannot fix.

The problem is with the TOC and the List of Figures. The section headings and figure captions are long and so in the TOC and the List of Figures, they should wrap around. Instead, latex displays them on a single line. Pls see figure below:



The code I am using is the following. Many thanks for any kind of help or pointers.

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\documentclass[11pt,a4paper]{diss}
\usepackage{a4,epsfig,exscale,longtable,amsfonts,amsmath,fancyhdr,makeidx,bibunits,hyperref,paralist,tocbibind,subfigure}
\usepackage[dvips]{color}
\usepackage{pifont} % Customizing the itemize list environment

\setlength{\textwidth}{125.0mm} \setlength{\textheight}{195.0mm}
\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{10.0mm}
\setlength{\topmargin}{0.0mm} % <----- book format
\setlength{\baselineskip}{3.75mm} \setlength{\parindent}{5.00mm}

\pagestyle{fancy}

\newfont{\bookfont}{cmbx12 scaled 2500}  % <--------- defining a new font --> \newfont{\bname}{filename scaled scalingfactor*1000}

\renewcommand{\chaptermark}[1]{\markboth{#1}{}}
\renewcommand{\sectionmark}[1]{\markright{\thesection\ #1}}
\fancyhf{} % delete current setting for header and footer
\fancyhead[LE,RO]{\bfseries\thepage}
\fancyhead[LO]{\bfseries\rightmark}
\fancyhead[RE]{\bfseries\leftmark}
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0.5pt}
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0pt}
\addtolength{\headheight}{0.5pt} % make space for the rule
\fancypagestyle{plain}{%
\fancyhead{} % get rid of headers on plain pages
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt} % and the line
}

\begin{document}

\parindent 0pt
\frontmatter

\tableofcontents
\pagestyle{empty}

\mainmatter
\pagestyle{fancy}
\addtolength{\parskip}{+0.2cm}

\include{mychapter}

\backmatter
\addtolength{\parskip}{-0.2cm}
\fontsize{10pt}{12pt} %bibliography font size = 10pt

\selectfont
\listoffigures

\bibliographystyle{dissbib}
\bibliography{models}

\vspace{12pt}
\end{document}

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi uetech,

could you please post your diss.cls as attachment? Without it I cannot compile your document to reproduce the problem. It's probably not a standard class.
Your code is not a minimal working example. One may get an impression by reading it and may try to type some additional code to get it compiled and showing the problem, but if you provided a compilable example showing some not-wrapping lines, one could easier give specific help.

Stefan

[uetech]

Hi Stefan_K,

I thank you for your efforts.
I have attached the diss.cls file as well as "mychapter.tex" file. Now the code given in my first post should compile.

Best Regards

[gmedina]

I would suggest you to use the hyperref package with the breaklinks option activated; in your preamble, delete hyperref from this list of packages

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\usepackage{a4,epsfig,exscale,longtable,amsfonts,amsmath,fancyhdr,makeidx,bibunits,hyperref,paralist,tocbibind,subfigure}

and add this line after loading all the other packages:

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\usepackage[breaklinks=true]{hyperref}

By the way, you are using problematic and/or obsolete packages such as a4, epsfig,subfigure. The l2tabu document addresses this issue.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi uetech,

I agree with gmedina.
With your attachments I was able to compile (just without makeidx, even added subsections for testing), and the result looks like this:



Probably you should consider updating your used packages.

Stefan

[uetech]

Thanks a lot gmedina and Stefan. The solution works perfectly.

Also thankyou for the information on packages. Actually the template I am using is supplied by my institute, is a very old one and needs to be updated. I will update it soon.

Best Regards

[otnemem]

Hi all!

I was going through this post as i have the same problem. Unfortunately this remedy is not working for me. I would be really grateful if someone could give me a hand with this.

The main document is as follows:

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\documentclass [a4paper,12pt,oneside]{book}

\usepackage{float}
\usepackage{harvard}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage[bottom]{footmisc} %package used to place footnotes at bottom of page
\usepackage[hang,scriptsize,bf]{caption}
\usepackage{multirow}
\usepackage{eurofont}

\renewcommand{\baselinestretch} {1.6} \normalsize

  \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{0.5in}
  \setlength{\evensidemargin}{0.0in}
  \setlength{\topmargin}{0.0in}
  \setlength{\footskip}{0.4in}
  \setlength{\headsep}{0.3in}
  \setlength{\headheight}{0.0in}
  \setlength{\textwidth}{5.6in}
  \setlength{\textheight}{9.3in}

\begin{document}

    \include{preamble}

    \pagenumbering{roman}
    \thispagestyle{empty}
    \tableofcontents
    \thispagestyle{empty}
    \listoffigures
    \thispagestyle{empty}
    \listoftables
    \thispagestyle{empty}

    \pagebreak
    \include{Abbreviations}

    \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{20mm}
    \setlength{\evensidemargin}{40mm}
    \setlength{\topmargin}{0mm}
    \setlength{\footskip}{0.4in}
    \setlength{\headsep}{0.3in}
    \setlength{\headheight}{0.0in}
    \setlength{\textheight}{8.5in}

    \pagenumbering{arabic}
    \include{Introduction}
    \include{Literature}
    \include{Methodology}
    \include{Analysis}
    \include{Conclusions}
    \include{Recommendations}
    \include{Reflections}
    \appendix
    \include{appendixa}
    \include{appendixb}
    \include{appendixc}
    \include{appendixd}

    \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{0.5in}
    \setlength{\evensidemargin}{0.0in}
    \setlength{\topmargin}{0.0in}
    \setlength{\footskip}{0.4in}
    \setlength{\headsep}{0.3in}
    \setlength{\headheight}{0.0in}
    \setlength{\textwidth}{5.6in}
    \setlength{\textheight}{9.3in}

    \nocite{*}

    \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{References}
    \bibliography{References}
    \bibliographystyle{agsm}
    \thispagestyle{empty}

\end{document}

Thanks again in advance for all!

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi otnemem,

welcome to the LateX Community board!
I cannot compile your main document because I don't have the files that you are including. If I compile it without those files I cannot see the unwanted behaviour. Perhaps you could insert some lines (\chapter, \section ?) so that we can see what's meant. A minimal working example should be compilable and showing the problem. See here for more information. Usually compilable code quickly leads to a solution.

Stefan

[otnemem]

Hi there! thank for your reply...

I am taking off all the related files and just created a toc entry that is long enough not to wrap properly. The code is this...hope it's more indicative:

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\documentclass [a4paper,12pt,oneside]{book}

\usepackage{float}
\usepackage{harvard}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage[bottom]{footmisc} %package used to place footnotes at bottom of page
\usepackage[hang,scriptsize,bf]{caption}
\usepackage{multirow}
\usepackage{eurofont}

\renewcommand{\baselinestretch} {1.6} \normalsize

  \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{0.5in}
  \setlength{\evensidemargin}{0.0in}
  \setlength{\topmargin}{0.0in}
  \setlength{\footskip}{0.4in}
  \setlength{\headsep}{0.3in}
  \setlength{\headheight}{0.0in}
  \setlength{\textwidth}{5.6in}
  \setlength{\textheight}{9.3in}

\begin{document}

    \pagenumbering{roman}
    \thispagestyle{empty}
    \tableofcontents
    \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{20mm}
    \setlength{\evensidemargin}{40mm}
    \setlength{\topmargin}{0mm}
    \setlength{\footskip}{0.4in}
    \setlength{\headsep}{0.3in}
    \setlength{\headheight}{0.0in}
    \setlength{\textheight}{8.5in}

    \section{The relationship between economic instruments and road transport policies}

    \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{0.5in}
    \setlength{\evensidemargin}{0.0in}
    \setlength{\topmargin}{0.0in}
    \setlength{\footskip}{0.4in}
    \setlength{\headsep}{0.3in}
    \setlength{\headheight}{0.0in}
    \setlength{\textwidth}{5.6in}
    \setlength{\textheight}{9.3in}

    \nocite{*}

    \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{References}
    \bibliography{References}
    \bibliographystyle{agsm}
    \thispagestyle{empty}

\end{document}

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi otnemem,

I've tested your example without changes, the output looks like this:

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Do you get different wrapping?

Stefan