General ⇒ No space in table of contents

[tufflax]

Hey!

I've got a small problem with my latex document. I don't know how to describe the problem so here is a picture:


Does anyone know a fix to this problem?

[Juanjo]

In the preamble, put

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\makeatletter
\renewcommand*\l@subsection{\@dottedtocline{2}{1.5em}{2.8em}}
\renewcommand*\l@subsubsection{\@dottedtocline{3}{4.3em}{3.2em}}
\makeatother

Adjust the value 2.8em to fit your needs. If you change it, make sure that you also change 4.3em accordingly (the two lengths in the definition of \l@subsection should sum up the first one in the definition of \l@subsubsection). In the above definitions, the first lenght is the indentation of numbers in the TOC (so 1.5em for subsections and 4.3em for subsubsections). The second length is the space reserved for the numbers (by default, 2.3em for subsections, which is not enough in your case).

[tufflax]

Ok, thank you!

Edit: By the way, I tried putting in a new line for the sections, like so:

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\makeatletter
\renewcommand*\l@section{\@dottedtocline{1}{0em}{1.5em}}
\renewcommand*\l@subsection{\@dottedtocline{2}{1.5em}{2.8em}}
\renewcommand*\l@subsubsection{\@dottedtocline{3}{4.3em}{3.2em}}
\makeatother

But that removed the bold face from the sections. Can I do that and still have bold face somehow? I realize that this way (with BF) it looks just like before, but I thought about having a bigger indent, because the subsubsection indent is so large in comparison.

Also, if anyone knows a good place to start learning about .sty files and creating new commands and other advanced features of tex and latex---I would like to know about it.

[localghost]

[...] But that removed the bold face from the sections. Can I do that and still have bold face somehow? I realize that this way (with BF) it looks just like before, but I thought about having a bigger indent, because the subsubsection indent is so large in comparison. [...]

Take a look at the tocloft package. A search for that package here in the forum will yield some useful results.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten¹

[tufflax]

Thank you!

And in the case anyone else has the same problem, here is what I did:

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\usepackage{tocloft}

\renewcommand{\cftsecindent}{0 em}
\renewcommand{\cftsecnumwidth}{1.9 em}

\renewcommand{\cftsubsecindent}{1.9 em}
\renewcommand{\cftsubsecnumwidth}{2.8 em}

\renewcommand{\cftsubsubsecindent}{4.7 em}
\renewcommand{\cftsubsubsecnumwidth}{3.2 em}