Text Formatting ⇒ Fix horizontal Spacing in LoF, LoT in 'book' class

[maja z]

Hi!
I've got a list of figures and list of tables, both of which go into double digits (i.e. Table 13.10), and this (I think) causes the LOT, LOF to look very ugly and bunched up. I don't know if they operate as tables (?) but essentially I need the first column (the one that has the 10.11, 10.12 numbers in it) to be a bit wider, so as to not be touching the table/figure titles. Sorry I cannot provide a minimal example, but if someone could point me to how to adjust these widths or the separator I would be very grateful!
Thanks!
m.

[localghost]

[…] Sorry I cannot provide a minimal example, […]

A minimal example is always possible. Regarding your problem, try the tocloft package to adjust the space reserved for the float numbers.

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\documentclass[11pt,a4paper]{book}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{tocloft}

\addtolength{\cftfignumwidth}{1em}
\addtolength{\cfttabnumwidth}{1em}

\begin{document}
  \listoffigures
  \listoftables

  \chapter{Foo}

    \begin{figure}[!ht]
      \centering
      \rule{6.4cm}{3.6cm}
      \caption{Dummy figure}\label{fig:dummy}
    \end{figure}

    \begin{table}[!ht]
      \centering
      \rule{6.4cm}{3.6cm}
      \caption{Dummy table}\label{tab:dummy}
    \end{table}
\end{document}

For the present this should be enough for entries in form of "xx.xx" for both LoF and LoT. For higher numbers the corresponding values can easily be increased.


Thorsten