Page Layout ⇒ Entries in TOC ragged right with page numbers on first line

[Bram]

I have a publication with chapter titles running over several lines. I would like to have them in the table of contents ragged right, with the page numbers after te first line, not after the last line of the title.

So I'ld like to put page number 5 in the example below at the first line, something like:

1. This is a really long chapter title 5
and it continues here, although we
already gave the page number

..and get all the lines ragged right.

Any help would be appreciated!

This is my code:

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\documentstyle{memoir}
\begin{document}
\tableofcontents*
\chapter{This is a normal chapter}
\chapter{This is a chapter with a long title, but I can't really 
make it shorter, how hard I try}
\chapter{This is a chapter -- I hesitate to say it -- 
with an extreme long title, really, but the authors didn't want 
to have it curtailed, so I am afraid I will have to cope with it, 
although I will still try to make it shorter}
\chapter{This is not too bad again}
\end{document}

[cgnieder]

Hi,

the following is an adaption of a piece of code I found here. It partially solves your problem.

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\documentclass{memoir}
\usepackage{titletoc}

% This command "floats" the page number to the far right of the current line.
\newcommand\floatcontentspage{%
  \rlap{%
    \hspace{-\leftskip}\hspace{\linewidth}\hspace{-\rightskip}%
    \textbf{\contentspage}}%
}
\titlecontents
  {chapter}                % 1. <section>
  [0pt]                    % 2. <left> indent (none here)
  {}                       % 3. <above code>: i.e. vertical space
  {%                       % 4. <numbered-entry-format> for numbered chapters
    \contentspush{\floatcontentspage%
      \textbf{\thecontentslabel}%
      \hspace{1.5em}}\bfseries\raggedright}
  {\bfseries}              % 5. <numberless-entry-format> for unnumbered chapters
  {}                       % 6. <filler-page-format> no filler needed
  [\vspace{\baselineskip}] % 7. <after code>: i.e. vertical space

\begin{document}
% I am not exactly sure what I should do here, but \chapternumberline has
% \@chapapp@head which is undefined when I use titletoc... This is an
% unexplained hack to get it working
\renewcommand\chapternumberline[1]{\numberline{#1}}


\tableofcontents*
\chapter{This is a normal chapter}

\chapter{This is a chapter with a long title, but I can't really
make it shorter, how hard I try}

\chapter{This is a chapter -- I hesitate to say it --
with an extreme long title, really, but the authors didn't want
to have it curtailed, so I am afraid I will have to cope with it,
although I will still try to make it shorter}

\chapter{This is not too bad again}
\end{document}

Regards

[Bram]

Thanks a lot, this is really helpful and it already looks much more natural. The only problem remaining is that the titles are still not ragged right (which would be much more elegant). I found a nice solution with the package tocstyle, but is doesn't combine with your titletoc solution for the page numbers:

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\usepackage{tocstyle}
\usetocstyle{standard}
\settocfeature{raggedhook}{\raggedright}

I don't see immediately how to combine the two. Does anybody have a good idea?