General ⇒ overfull hboxes in tableofcontents

[taraAthan]

I am updating a document that someone else created. The table of contents had a lot of overfull hboxes in it, and didn't look very good. I managed to get rid of a lot of them by using this in the style file

\renewcommand{\@pnumwidth}{1.75em}

but there are a few left that are caused by the section number being too long (i.e. C.10.).

What is the parameter to modify to increase the box for the section number? (I tried guessing:
snumwidth, secnumwidth, but no luck)

Thanks, Tara

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Tara,

welcome to the board!
Have a look at the document class file you are using, the macro \l@section should be responsible for displaying the section entries in the toc.
In general one could use the tocloft package to solve such problems.

Stefan

[gmedina]

Hi Tara,

as Stefan_K mentioned, using a package to change the ToC (or the LoF, or the LoT) can save you a lot of time. An alternative to tocloft can be the titletoc package.