Page Layout ⇒ Chapter Number Format in ToC

[cgp]

Hello everybody!

I'm writing a book. I'd like that in the table of contents after the chapter number appears a dot (.). I'm trying to use

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\renewcommand{\thechapter}{\arabic{chapter}.}

But thus, I obtain the dot even in each chapter title.

How could I do it only in the table of contents?

Thank you in advance.

[localghost]

The easiest way is to use the titletoc package with an appropriate option.

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\documentclass[11pt,english]{book}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage[dotinlabels]{titletoc}
\usepackage{blindtext}

\begin{document}
  \tableofcontents

  \blinddocument
\end{document}

As alternative you can use the tocloft package. But this solution needs explicit redefinitions for every heading level.

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\documentclass[11pt,english]{book}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage{tocloft}
\usepackage{blindtext}

\renewcommand{\cftchapaftersnum}{.}
\renewcommand{\cftsecaftersnum}{.}
\renewcommand{\cftsubsecaftersnum}{.}
%\renewcommand{\cftsubsubsecaftersnum}{.}

\begin{document}
  \tableofcontents

  \blinddocument
\end{document}

The blindtext package in both cases is only for creating dummy text, thus is not part of the solution.

[cgp]

Thank you but... Could it be possible change only the format of the number in the title of the chapter?

Thank you again.

[localghost]

Don't know where I had my head. Take the second example and comment every redefinition except for \renewcommand{\cftchapaftersnum}{.}. By the way, that's something you could have found out on your own by reading the corresponding package manual and playing around with the code. It is not recommendable to modify only the ToC entry of the chapter due to inconsistency.

[cgp]

Thank you for your answer.

However, I obtained error when compiling. Therefore, I'm maintaining my old renewcommands of thechapter, thesection and so on and I'm trying to format only the number of the chapter title. Maybe I should use the titlesec or fancychap packages but I don't find any option in these packages.

Thank you again.

[localghost]

[…] However, I obtained error when compiling. […]

You should be more specific in your problem description. The log file for sure has the detailed error message(s). Cut down the problem to a minimal example that is reduced to only the relevant code.