General ⇒ How to add some elements to the contents

[luzmara]

Hi,

In my contents appears the abstract, my list of figures and tables, then the introduction and my sections. I need to put a point between the name of my section, lits of figures and tables and the page number, I'm working with document class article.

Also I need tha the captions of my tables in the document appear aligned to left.

Its appears like this

abstract 1
list of figures 2
list of tables 3
1. Introduction 4
2. literature 5
2.1. literature century XX ......... 6
.
.
3. conclusions 30


I nedd like this

abstrarct ................................ 1
list of figures .......................... 2
list of tables ........................... 3
1. introduction ........................ 4
2. literature ............................ 5
2.1 literature century XX ......... 6
.
.
.
3. conclusions ........................ 30

Thanks,

[gmedina]

Hi,

you could use one of the packages titletoc ot the tocloft.

[luzmara]

Thanks, I tried but I don't find how to make what I need.
If someone else know how to make, please tell me.

[localghost]

Refer to Section 2.3 (Typesetting the entries, p. 8ff) of the tocloft documentation to modify the leader lines. The caption justification can be done with the caption package.


Best regards
Thorsten¹

[gmedina]

Hi luzmara,

the following code ahows that redefining a single command will produce the desired dotted rule for the sections in the ToC. Regarding your captions issue, the standard behaviour is to place the captions aligned to the left. We will need a more precise description of this problem and maybe a minimal working example showing the undesired behaviour.

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tocloft}

\renewcommand{\cftsecdotsep}{\cftdotsep}

\begin{document}

\tableofcontents
\newpage

\section*{Abstract}
\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{Abstract}
\newpage

\listoftables
\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{List of Tables}
\newpage

\listoffigures
\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{List of Figures}
\newpage

\section{Introduction}

\section{Literature}

\subsection{Literature century XX}

\begin{table}[!ht]
  \centering
  \begin{tabular}{cc}\hline
    some text & some text \\\hline
  \end{tabular}
  \caption{text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text}
  \label{tab:test}
\end{table}

\end{document}

[luzmara]

Hi gmedina,

Thanks again, my first question is now answered, but my problem with the caption still continued, I'm using the ‘hang’ option in the package caption2 to indents the caption text, so it will ‘hang’ under the first line of the text, and when the caption of my table or figure is just a simple line, appears centering, and I need aligned to the left, with the others captions with more than one line there is not problem. The same happend with the figures. I will waiting for your suggestions. The example is

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{subfigure}
\usepackage[normal,hang]{caption2} 
\renewcommand{\captionlabeldelim}{ -}
\usepackage[titles,subfigure]{tocloft}

%To introduce the word Table and Figure in the list of tables and list of figures
\renewcommand{\cfttabpresnum}{Table }
\renewcommand{\cftfigpresnum}{Figure }
\renewcommand{\cfttabaftersnum}{ - }
\renewcommand{\cftfigaftersnum}{ - }
\renewcommand{\cfttabnumwidth}{4.7em}
\renewcommand{\cftfignumwidth}{4.7em}
\renewcommand{\cfttabindent}{0em} 
\renewcommand{\cftfigindent}{0em} 

\renewcommand{\cftsecdotsep}{\cftdotsep}

\begin{document}

\tableofcontents
\newpage

\section*{Abstract}
\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{Abstract}
\newpage

\listoftables
\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{List of Tables}
\newpage

\listoffigures
\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{List of Figures}
\newpage

\section{Introduction}

\section{Literature}

\subsection{Literature century XX}

\begin{table}[!ht]
  \caption{text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text}
  \label{tab:test}
  \centering
  \begin{tabular}{cc}\hline
    some text & some text \\\hline
  \end{tabular}
\end{table}

\begin{table}[!ht]
  \caption{text text text text text}
  \label{tab:test1}
  \centering
  \begin{tabular}{cccccc}\hline
    some text & some text & some text & some text & some text & some text \\ \hline
  \end{tabular}
\end{table}

\begin{figure}[!ht]
  \centering
  %\includegraphics[width=15.0cm,height=9.0cm]{BiplotAMMI2Prod.eps}
  \caption{text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text}
   \label{Fig:test}
\end{figure}

\begin{figure}[!ht]
  \centering
  %\includegraphics[width=15.0cm,height=9.0cm]{BiplotAMMI2Prod.eps}
   \caption{text text text text text}
   \label{Fig:test1}
\end{figure}

\end{document}

[gmedina]

Hi luzmara,

caption2 is an obsolete package; you should use caption instead. The following code shows how to achieve what you desire, using the \captionsetup command (refer to the caption package documentation for further information).

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{caption}
\captionsetup{format=hang,labelsep=endash,singlelinecheck=false}

\begin{document}


\begin{table}[!ht]
  \caption{text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text}
  \label{tab:test}
  \centering
  \begin{tabular}{cc}\hline
    some text & some text \\\hline
  \end{tabular}
\end{table}

\begin{table}[!ht]
  \caption{text text text text text}
  \label{tab:test1}
  \centering
  \begin{tabular}{cccccc}\hline
    some text & some text & some text & some text & some text & some text \\ \hline
  \end{tabular}
\end{table}

\begin{figure}[!ht]
  \centering
  \caption{text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text}
   \label{Fig:test}
\end{figure}

\begin{figure}[!ht]
  \centering
   \caption{text text text text text}
   \label{Fig:test1}
\end{figure}

\end{document}

By the way, I noticed that you are loading the also obsolete subfigure package. In its stead, you should use subfig or the subcaption package (a little yet useful companion of the caption package).

[luzmara]

Hi gmedina,

Thanks for the help, its works so good, just a final question, the norms in my university require that the captions of the tables with one line appear aligned to the left, and the captions for the figures with one line appear centering. How can I do this?, the command that you send me modify all the captions of tables and figures.

Thank you so much

[gmedina]

Hi,

replace

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\captionsetup{format=hang,labelsep=endash,singlelinecheck=false}

with

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\captionsetup[figure]{format=hang,labelsep=endash}
\captionsetup[table]{format=hang,labelsep=endash,singlelinecheck=false}

[luzmara]

Hi gmedina,

Thank you so much four your help, all my questions were solved.