Document Classes ⇒ tocloft spacing when chapter counter changes

[wheely_chairs]

Hi everyone,

I've googled everywhere for this and read the documentation cover-to-cover but with no success...

I've used the tocloft package to create a list of equations, which is great . However, in the list of figures/tables some extra vertical space is added when the chapter containing the figure/table changes, e.g:

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1.1 Figure 1.1
1.2 Figure 1.2
<Vertical Space>
2.1 Ooh vertical space
2.2 That was nice

But my new list of equations does not have the same behaviour . I nicked the code off of this forum (thanks gmedina!), the only difference being that I use the hyperref package so place \phantomsection before the \addcontentsline.

Any ideas how I can get this <vertical space>?

Thanks,

Chris

[Juanjo]

Following the notations in gmedina's post, write

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\addtocontents{equ}{\protect\addvspace{10pt}}

before the first equation in every chapter.
To automate this, you should change the definition of \chapter.

[wheely_chairs]

Many thanks Juanjo. It's a shame it can't be done automatically (I certainly can't be bothered to redefine \chapter!) but this will suffice.

Chris

[Juanjo]

I certainly can't be bothered to redefine \chapter!

Well, not so difficult, I hope:

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\makeatletter
\let\@chapterOLD\@chapter
\renewcommand{\@chapter}[2][]{\@chapterOLD[#1]{#2}\addtocontents{equ}{\protect\addvspace{10pt}}}
\makeatother

Of course, you should put this after the code concerning the definition of the list of equations. The above code mimics the behaviour of \chapter in the book class regarding the LOF and LOT: only numbered chapters add space (i.e. \chapter, not \chapter*).

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi,

Juanjo's code will work very well. I just want to mention an alternative. Instead of redefining the internal \@chapter macro one could redefine \chaptermark, this macro will be called every time a chapter starts (by \@chapter), and that macro is intended to be redefined by users:

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\let\chaptermarkOLD\chaptermark
\renewcommand*\chaptermark[1]{\chaptermarkOLD{#1}\addtocontents{equ}{\protect\addvspace{10pt}}}

Stefan