General ⇒ customizing TOC

[chao]

Hi,
I know this has been asked before and given reference to tocloft package.
However, as I'm new to latex, I appreciate that if someone can give me an example script
TOC needs to be
Table of Contents (mid of page)
Chapter(left of page) Page(right)
DEDICATION...............................ii
ACKNOW.....................................iii
.
.
.
CHAPTERS
(indent)CHAPTER 1-- Introduction...1
(more indent)1.1 N#1...................2
.
.
.
APPENDICIES
(indent) Appendix A--Numerical......100
...

[localghost]

Try your luck with tocloft. In case of occurring questions, feel free to ask.


Best regards
Thorsten¹

[chao]

I've went through "tocloft" and solved a few typesettings.
However, there are still some are remaining
1. How to insert "CHAPTERS" as a separate line before Chapter1, 2.... starts
2. How to change the font of all the contents listed NOT in bold face.
Only "Table of Contents" and "Chapter ....... Page" remain in bold.
3. How to insert "..........." between to all the contents and pages?

Thanks very much for any hint!

ps: TOC format attached

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi chao,

perhaps post a minimal example that shows how you typeset the table of contents using tocloft until know, then we probably could suggest changes.

Stefan

[chao]

sty file

\usepackage[subfigure]{tocloft}
...
\renewcommand{\contentsname}{Table of contents} % change "Contents" to "Table of Contents"
\renewcommand{\cfttoctitlefont}{\hfill\large\bfseries\MakeUppercase} % change toc title to upper case
\renewcommand{\cftaftertoctitle}{\hfill}

\renewcommand{\cftchapfont}{\MakeUppercase} % change chapter headings to uppercase

\renewcommand{\cftchappresnum}{CHAPTER } % try to put "Chapter" in front of e.g."1. Introduction"


main.tex file
...
\titlepage
\addtocontents{toc}{\bfseries \underline{Chapter} \hfill \underline{Page}\par} % add underlined "Chapter" and "page" before actually contents show up.
...

Now I'm stuck with the previously mentioned questions
Attached is a toc I finished
Hope this could help to understand my problem

[localghost]

You have to set the space which is reserved for the chapter number to a suitable value.

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\renewcommand{\cftchappresnum}{\chaptername\space}
\settowidth{\cftchapnumwidth}{\widthof{\cftchappresnum}}

For further information see section 2.3 of the tocloft documentation.


Best regards
Thorsten¹

[chao]

The adding chapter in front of number problem is solved.

However,
"In the default ToC typsetting only the more minor entries have dotted leader \cftdot lines between the sectioning title and the page number. The tocloft package pro- vides for general leaders for all entries"

How to add dotted leader to all entries?

[localghost]

[...] How to add dotted leader to all entries?

Add a command to your preamble to get the desired result.

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\renewcommand{\cftchapdotsep}{\cftdotsep}

You should take a deeper look at the documentation, because this issue is described there in detail.

[dowens]

I am having difficulty with tocloft trying to do some of the same things listed above. The documentation has so few examples that it is hard to work out how to use the commands.

My last remaining task for my dissertation is indenting chapter entries in the TOC. I am using memoir. This is what I have tried so far:

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\renewcommand{\cftchapterpresnum}{\hspace{.5in}\normalfont} % Does not indent the whole entry
\setlength{\cftXindent}{.5in} % Produces errors
\newcommand{\cftchappresnum}{\hspace{.5in}} % Ineffective
\renewcommand*\l@chapter{\@dottedtocline{0}{.5in}{0em}} % Produces errors

Any suggestions are welcome.

[gmedina]

Hi,

try

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\setlength{\cftchapterindent}{.5in}