Document Classes ⇒ Problem with ToC in custom Class

[startingalaxy]

I am having a very strange problem with \tableofcontents. Here is my code.

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\documentclass[12pt]{thesis}  %12pt is larger than 11pt
\setcounter{tocdepth}{2}
\setcounter{secnumdepth}{2}

\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
\chapter{Introduction}
\section{sec 1}
\subsection{subsec 1}
\subsection{subsec 2}
\subsubsection{temp1}
\subsubsection{temp2}
\end{document}

The problem is that when I set tocdepth to 1, then ToC displays currently up to the depth of \section, but when I give it 2, it goes all the way to \subsubsection while it should only display until \subsection.

"thesis" is something that has been provided to me by my school. Strangely when I use the standard "report.cls", problem does not occur, but when I looked at both class files, the part that defines \tablefocontents seems same. Any help would be highly appreciated.

I am uploading the "thesis" class file for you to see.
Thanks!

[cgnieder]

This is a bug in the class. Lines 619--623 read (comment added by me):

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\newcommand*\l@section{\@dottedtocline{1}{1.5em}{2.3em}}
\newcommand*\l@subsection{\@dottedtocline{2}{3.8em}{3.2em}}
\newcommand*\l@subsubsection{\@dottedtocline{2}{7.0em}{4.1em}}% <= here is the bug!
\newcommand*\l@paragraph{\@dottedtocline{4}{10em}{5em}}
\newcommand*\l@subparagraph{\@dottedtocline{5}{12em}{6em}}

The first argument to \@dottedtocline in the marked line should be a 3 instead of a 2.

PS: I like your comment

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%12pt is larger than 11pt

Regards

[startingalaxy]

Great! solved....
Cant thank you enough!!

[startingalaxy]

Hi,
I have one more follow up question. I actually want to restrict the appendix ToC to depth 0, and for that I do the following:

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\begin{document}
\tableofcontents %(required, lower-case Roman)
\newpage
\listoftables %(if present, lower-case Roman)
\addtocontents{toc}{\protect\setcounter{tocdepth}{0}}
\include{09conclusion}
\appendixpage
\include{AppendixA}
\end{document}

But when I do this, Apendix in ToC is restricted to depth 0 as desired, but my "List of Tables" goes away, i.e. it is just an empty page. Could you be able to tell why that would be?

also strangely, when I do not add \appendixpage, appendix is not restricted to 0 depth with "List of Tables" still disappeared.
Thanks in advance.

[cgnieder]

Could you please provide a proper minimal working example (beginning with \documentclass) and all needed packages to recreate your problem? For example I cannot include 09conclusion.tex as I don't have the file (and it is probably not needed for the example at all) and I don't want to guess where \appendixpage is defined.

Regards

[startingalaxy]

Hi,
Here is the minimal working example. This time without my custom class. In order to recreate the example, do the following:
1. In the following code, you will see that the depth of the second chapter is 1 (until section) and "List of tables" is displayed correctly.
2. Now set the tocdepth in line \addtocontents{toc}{\protect\setcounter{tocdepth}{1}} to 0, and see that as desired, depth of the chapter 2 reduced to 0, but at the same time, "List of the tables" also disppears.

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\documentclass[12pt]{report}  %12pt is larger than 11pt
\setcounter{tocdepth}{2}
\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
\listoftables
\chapter{My chapter}
\section{My section}
\begin{table}
\begin{tabular}{|c|c|}
\hline 
a & b \\ 
\hline 
c & d \\ 
\hline 
\end{tabular} 
\caption{My table}
\end{table}
\addtocontents{toc}{\protect\setcounter{tocdepth}{1}}
\chapter{Introduction}
\section{sec 1}
\end{document}

Thanks

[startingalaxy]

Never mind, It is resolved. I just had to include \setcounter{tocdepth}{2} right before \tableofcontents. Thanks anyways.

[cgnieder]

Well, you're writing \setcounter{tocdepth}{0} to the TOC. That means that from that line in the TOC on the value is 0 in the whole document until you change it again.

Either add the following line after the chapter with depth 0

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\addtocontents{toc}{\protect\setcounter{tocdepth}{2}}

or if this only concerns the last chapter of the document add

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\setcounter{tocdepth}{2}

directly after \tableofcontents:

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\documentclass[12pt]{report}  %12pt is larger than 11pt
\setcounter{tocdepth}{2}
\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
\listoftables
\chapter{My chapter}
\section{My section}
\begin{table}
\begin{tabular}{|c|c|}
\hline
a & b \\
\hline
c & d \\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\caption{My table}
\end{table}
\addtocontents{toc}{\protect\setcounter{tocdepth}{0}}
\chapter{Introduction}
\section{sec 1}
\addtocontents{toc}{\protect\setcounter{tocdepth}{2}}
\end{document}

Regards