General ⇒ Modifying Layout of ToC

[MeineKekse]

Hello,

I need to change the layout of my tableofcontents. The first problem is, that I included a section(called Vorwort) with the *-symbol in order to get ride of the number in front of it. But then in the tableofcontents "Vorwort" appears at the same height as all other section, beginning with a number. They are all aligned on the left side. How can I chnage this appearance so that the section Vorwort appears on the same height as the E from the section "Einleitung".

Furthermore as you can see on the image the section "Vorwort" has a roman page number. The thing is again, that all page numbers are aligned on the right side. I want the middle of the "I" from "Vorwort" to be on the same height as the middle of the "1" from the section "Einleitung".

Thanks for helping

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi,

welcome to the board!

A solution depends on the document class you are using and your packages and settings. It may be that all things in your document are default, but maybe not. For such questions it's usually goo to post a minimal working example, so the readers can see all settings and implement the desired change. In this special case it could be just some lines. Otherwise it's quite theoretical. I could give you a theoretical solution if code really doesn't matter.

Stefan

[MeineKekse]

Hi,

so I just created a minimal working example and left all packages i used in the file.(It's also uploaded as an atachment)

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\documentclass[12pt]{article}

%German language
\usepackage[english,ngerman]{babel}
\usepackage{ngerman}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}

% Das Euro
\usepackage{eurosym}


%Gener layout
\usepackage{geometry}
\geometry{a4paper}
\geometry{left=3cm,top=2cm,bottom=2cm}

% Times New Roman
\usepackage{mathptmx}
\usepackage{setspace}
\setstretch{1.5}
\usepackage{titlesec}
\fontfamily{ptm}\selectfont

%C-Code
\usepackage{listings}
\usepackage{courier}
\usepackage{caption}
\usepackage{color}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{MnSymbol}

% Grafics
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{wrapfig}
\usepackage{picins}









\begin{document}
\section*{Vorwort}
\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{Vorwort}

\renewcommand{\thepage}{\Roman{page}}
\setcounter{page}{1} 
\thispagestyle{empty}
\newpage
\thispagestyle{empty}
\tableofcontents
\newpage


\renewcommand{\thepage}{\arabic{page}}
\setcounter{page}{1} 
\section{Einleitung}


\end{document}

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Very good! It would be even better to make it without packages which obviously are not related to the problem, such as graphics packages.

A general approach for designing a table of contents would be using a package, such as tocloft, titletoc, or KOMA-Script features - I would always prefer a KOMA-Script class such as scrartcl over base classes.

The specific approach, as we can now see your class, is looking at the class code, what can be redefined. I noticed, here it's very simple. You could easily write

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\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{\numberline{}Vorwort}

after \section*{Vorwort}, so the correct space for the number is reserved, even without no given number.

Regarding the page numbers, they are of course right aligned. Later you will have numbers with two digits, should they also be centered in relation to the other numbers? I guess it would look strange. I would let the I right aligned for consistency, if all the other numbers stay right aligned. In such cases, just look at some good books, how they do the table of contents.

Stefan

[MeineKekse]

Hi, thanks very much.

When using scrartcl. My font changes to something different even when using the font packages. I need a font being similar to Times New Roman.

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\documentclass[12pt]{scrartcl}



% Times New Roman
\usepackage{mathptmx}
\usepackage{setspace}
\setstretch{1.5}
\usepackage{titlesec}
\fontfamily{ptm}\selectfont


\begin{document}
\section*{Vorwort}
\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{Vorwort}

\renewcommand{\thepage}{\Roman{page}}
\setcounter{page}{1} 
\thispagestyle{empty}
\newpage
\thispagestyle{empty}
\tableofcontents
\newpage


\renewcommand{\thepage}{\arabic{page}}
\setcounter{page}{1} 
\section{Einleitung}


\end{document}

[Stefan Kottwitz]

No problem, scrartcl just has some different (and meaningful) defaults. You can easyily change it:

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\setkomafont{sectioning}{\normalfont\bfseries}
\setkomafont{descriptionlabel}{\normalfont\bfseries}

The first line changes the sans-serif headings to serif (roman) headings which you know from the base classes, the second one does it for description labels.

Stefan

[localghost]

Just for information to other users to be aware of possibly already existing solutions. The question has also been posted to the goLaTeX.