Page Layout ⇒ TOC space between title and "Page"

[cjtex]

Hello,

I am trying to control the space between the TOC Title ("Table of Contents") and the first line which has the word "Page". It appears to be variable based on the number of entries in the table of contents. I need to limit it to one line (in this case double-spaced).

Attached is the class file I am working with that controls the general page setings and the TOC information.

Thanks for your help in advanced...

C.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi,

welcome to the board!

This class requires a file thesis12pt.clo. To be able to check class and option file together, we need that. Usually the best way for getting a solution is posting a minimal working example, which shows the problem. Only the class file itself is quite theoretically.

Stefan

[cjtex]

Thanks Stefan,

I apologize for not including dependencies and such and I inherited the source so I'm not 100% proficient with its use. I'd attach the file, but the forum is telling me that the extension .clo is not allowed.

However I was able to produce the desired results by simply inserting a vskip with a negative value. If you look at the .cls file you will eventual find the table of contents calls. I modified the TOC, LOF and LOT code sections by adding a vskip between the call to chapter* and the posting of the text "page"

It is probably not the most elegant solution, but it is working. Plus it has the advantage of only changing such space for the TOC, LOF and LOT header/title. In fact, the LOF was generating a blank page for some reason. It just so happened that I had the exact number of entries to cause TeX to create a page for the ghost whitespace and this fix added enough paper space for it to not do that...

Again thanks everyone,
Chris

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\renewcommand{\contentsname}{Table of Contents}
\renewcommand{\tableofcontents}{%
  \if@twocolumn
  \@restonecoltrue\onecolumn
  \else
  \@restonecolfalse
  \fi
  \chapter*{\normalsize \contentsname
    \@mkboth{%
      \MakeUppercase{\contentsname}}{\MakeUppercase{\contentsname}}}%
  [i][b][u]\vskip-3em[/u][/b][/i]
  \hfill Page \relax \newline%
  \@starttoc{toc}%
  \if@restonecol\twocolumn\fi
}

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Chris,

I'd attached the file, but the forum is telling me that the extension .clo is not allowed.

good to know, I added .clo to the text file types, which are allowed. On this occasion, I did the same for .lco (letter class options), .ldf (language definition files, babel) and .mf (metafont), many more are already registered.

However I was able to produce the desired results by simply inserting a vskip with a negative value. If you look at the .cls file you will eventual find the table of contents calls. I modified the TOC, LOF and LOT code sections by adding a vskip between the call to chapter* and the posting of the text "page"

If it works for you, fine. In general, I would redefine the command which produces unnumbered headings. In standard classes and in uathesis, it is \@makeschapterhead:

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\def\@makeschapterhead#1{%
  \vspace*{72\p@}%
  \vspace*{-\baselineskip}%
  {\parindent \z@ \centering%
    \normalfont%
    \interlinepenalty\@M%
    \MakeUppercase{#1} \par\nobreak%
    \vskip 40\p@
  }
}

I would use \renewcommand and use different values for \vskip or \vspace, respectively.

Stefan

[cjtex]

Thanks for the code.

For thoroughness I'm attaching the .clo file