Text Formatting ⇒ Section Font Size Needs To Be smaller In The TOC

[insipidtoast]

In order to help make my section titles stand out, I manually changed their font size to "huge." However, the problem is that this huge font also ends up in my table of contents, where I need it to be smaller.

Because of this, the section titles are actually bigger than the chapter titles in my table of contents. I need the section titles to be smaller than the chapter titles in my table of contents.

How do I do this?

Is there a fancyTOC package or something? If so, how do I use it?

[Stefan Kottwitz]

I remember you use KOMA classes, there are features which you can use in your preamble, such as

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\addtokomafont{section}{\huge}

\setkomafont, \addtokomafont and supported elements are explained and listed in the manual.

Stefan

[insipidtoast]

1) I don't know what "manual" you're talking about.

2) I need to specifically change the section fonts only in the table of contents. In text they are huge (what I want). In the table of contents they are also huge (not what I want).

3) What's the quick fix command to change that?

[insipidtoast]

*Edit: Deleted, because I remembered you don't like having multiple topics in a thread

[Stefan Kottwitz]

I don't know what "manual" you're talking about.

The KOMA-Script manual which I already mentioned in your topic Margins for books need to be closer to outer edge.

I need to specifically change the section fonts only in the table of contents. In text they are huge (what I want). In the table of contents they are also huge (not what I want).

How did you makle them huge in the text? Note, it's not good to choose a font size locally, i.e. within a section heading, it should be done globally.

What's the quick fix command to change that?

\addtokomafont or \setkomafont with a KOMA-Script class, with other classes you could use \titleformat of the titlesec package.

Stefan

[insipidtoast]

OK Stefan,

I searched through that KOMA-Script manual using the search terms:

\setkomafont

and

\addtokomafont

and I found a few results. However, none (as far as I can tell) show me what I need to do in order to modify the font ONLY in the table of contents ONLY for the "section" headings.

Most of what appears in that manual seems over my head, so it's definitely possible that I may have missed the solution.

How did you makle them huge in the text? Note, it's not good to choose a font size locally, i.e. within a section heading, it should be done globally.

In Lyx it is easy to modify the text in the body of a document, but it doesn't let you modify text in the list of figures or table of contents sections (at least not very easily).

To change the font size of a section heading in the body of a document all you have to do is highlight the text, right click, then click on Text style ---> customized...

I wish it was that simple to modify the text in the table of contents.

Basically, what I want to do is be able to modify the font of the table of contents independently of what I do to the font in the body of the document. Actually, I'd like to be able to treat the table of contents and list of figures as completely independent entities. Aside from just modifying their font independently, I'd also like to be able to add text to them that doesn't appear in the body of the document.

[cgnieder]

Doesn't this do what you want?

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\documentclass{scrbook}
% this is the preamble
\addtokomafont{section}{\huge}
% preamble ends now
\begin{document}

\tableofcontents

\chapter{A chapter}
\section{First test}
\section{Second test}

\end{document}

The table of contents:

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The section titles:

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