General ⇒ Different kind of \listoffigures problem

[f3rmi]

I have looked everywhere for this and all my LaTeX source friends are on opposite schedules.

I am working on my dissertation with a specific .cls file for my school. I have a LARGE list of figures (200-300) and when the table of contents is generated with the list of figures it comes out like this:



This is what's in my .cls file for the list of figures section:

\renewcommand\listoffigures{%
\if@twocolumn
\@restonecoltrue\onecolumn
\else
\@restonecolfalse
\fi
\chapter*{\listfigurename}%
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{\listfigurename}
\@mkboth{\MakeUppercase\listfigurename}%
{\MakeUppercase\listfigurename}%
\begin{singlespacing}
\@starttoc{lof}%
\end{singlespacing}
\if@restonecol\twocolumn\fi}

So my question is, what is it that I need to do to make the figures in the list above 100 not overlap the figure caption?

Chris

[Juanjo]

The relevant code is not that you included, but that related to the definition of \l@figure. By default, in the book class, it is

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\newcommand*\l@figure{\@dottedtocline{1}{1.5em}{2.3em}}

The space left to write numbers in the LOF is the third mandatory argument of \@dottedtocline. So, adding this to the preamble of your document may do the trick:

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\makeatletter
\renewcommand*\l@figure{\@dottedtocline{1}{1.5em}{3.3em}}
\makeatother

You may change 3.3 em by any other suitable length. See this related thread, where the tocloft package is also mentioned as a good way to solve this problem. A different alternative is the titletoc package.