Page Layout ⇒ Manual Line Break in optional ToC Entry for Chapter

[Stevenet]

I have a \part and a \chapter at back matter. The chapter title at index, needs a line jump, so:

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\chapter[the title \\ for index]{the title at chapter}

For any strange reason, PDFLaTeX was unable to compile and generate a PDF, if a put a \\ at this area (after \backmatter). I a leave the \\, there's no problem.

How can I solve this?

Steve,

[localghost]

Why do you need this manual intervention at all? Line breaks in ToC entries should be done automatically by default. If you could give us a minimal example, we would have a clear problem description and finding a solution would become much easier.


Thorsten

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Steve,

perhaps protecting helps, i.e.

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\chapter[the title\protect\newline for index]{the title at chapter}

But generally try to provide more information regarding a problem, such as error messages and a code example, as Thorsten recommended.

Stefan

[Stevenet]

Hi,

My book has 2 prologues and some epilogues. Only for them, (not for the usual mainmatter chapters) i would an index TOC with 2 lines; The prologue name, and the autor of this prologue. So, for the prologues, i put a \\ inside the \chapter[the name at toc \\ by Steve]{The name at toc}...

The question was that, at backmatter (epilogues) the '\\' solution couldn't be done by this way (causes errors at pdflatex)... but yes!, coul be done (and is ok) putting the \protect\newline... So, thank you Stefan, for this tip!

Thanks everyone!

Steve,

[umutayildiz]

It is probably due to your hyperref package. In order to overcome this problem, you should simply add the following option to hyperref.

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\usepackage[linktocpage=true]{hyperref}