General ⇒ Customizing toc, lof, and lot

[phantom]

Hello,

I am working on my dissertation and having some format issues. I would really appreciate if you could help me to solve these problems. I am using tocloft package for list of contents, list of figures, and list of tables.

My first problem is to add "Table"/"Figure" and "Page" text on the list for lot, lof, and indent any subsequent lines for each entry;

Currently, my list of tables looks like this;

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List of Tables

1.1 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
    XXXXXXXX................ YY

1.2 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
    XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
    XXXX.................... YY

Now, what is being required from me is this;

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List of Tables 

Table                            Page
1.1 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
         XXXXXXXX............. YY

1.2 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
         XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
         XXXXXXX.............. YY

My second question is; These lists are multiple pages in my dissertation. In loc,tof,toc, I would like to put something like (left justified) "List of Figures/Tables (continued)" on top of each subsequent pages.

I will be grateful if you could help me for these problems.

Thank you very much.

[gmedina]

Hi,

some commands provided by the tocloft package can be used to solve the first problem. Please refer to the package documentation for further information. Take a look at the following example code:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tocloft}
\usepackage{calc}

% the value subtracted here has to be the same 4th argument of \parshape below
% and it controls the indentation of the subsequent lines of an entry in the list
\newlength\mylen
\setlength\mylen{\linewidth-1.5em}

\renewcommand{\cftafterlottitle}{%
  \\[\baselineskip]\noindent{\bfseries\tablename\hfill Page}}

\renewcommand{\cfttabafterpnum}{%
  \parshape = 2 0em \linewidth 1.5em \mylen}

\begin{document}
\listoftables
\newpage

\section{Dummy section}

\begin{table}[!ht]
  \centering
  \begin{tabular}{cc}\hline
    column1 & column 2 \\ \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}
  \label{tab:test}
\end{table}

\end{document} 

Remarks: 1) Of course, you will have to do something similar for the LoF.
2) The \parshape command of course is used to change the shape of paragraphs. You can find information on this TeX primitive in TeX by topic (18.2.2 General paragraph shapes: \parshape, pp. 155ff.) by Victor Eijkhout.
3) My code is just a simple example. Feel free to adapt it according to your needs.

[phantom]

Thank you very much.

[eadbanga]

I have tried what you suggested in this thread to add the 'Chapter' and 'Page' TOC column headers to my document with no success. No errors are thrown after multiple compiles just no column headers. Any suggestions?

Thanks for your time!

[gmedina]

Hi,

the following code works OK for me:

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\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{tocloft}
\usepackage{lipsum}% just to generate some text

\renewcommand{\cftaftertoctitle}{%
  \\[2\baselineskip]{\bfseries\chaptername\hfill Page}\vskip-25pt}

\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
\clearpage

\chapter{Test chapter one}
\lipsum[1-10]
\chapter{Test chapter two}
\lipsum[1-10]

\end{document} 

If the code doesn't work for you, please provide some relevant code (in the sense of a minimal working example) showing the relevant settings of your document.

[eadbanga]

When I changed '\usepackage[titles]{tocloft}' to 'usepackage{tocloft}' and replaced the code from the tocloft documentation with your code it worked perfectly.

Thank you so very much!