General ⇒ Add a new line after a Section in TOC

[mgarruda]

I'm using the tocloft package to format my TOC, change its title, and add Sections to the TOC for the article class. What I want to add is a blank line after a Section entry in the TOC. The commented part of the included code does indeed give me a blank line. However, it also indents the page number to the left.

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\renewcommand{\contentsname}{\begin{center}\normalsize{\mdseries{TABLE OF CONTENTS}}\end{center}}
\renewcommand{\cftaftertoctitle}{\mbox{}Chapter\hfill{\normalfont Page}}
\renewcommand{\cftsecfont}{\mdseries}
\renewcommand{\cftsecpagefont}{\mdseries}
\renewcommand{\cftsecleader}{\mdseries\cftdotfill{\cftdotsep}}

%\renewcommand{\cftsecafterpnum}{\\}

I would like to be able to add this blank line without having to add:

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\addtocontents{toc}{\protect\mbox{}\protect}

after each \section{...} command.

While the tocloft package offers a \cftbeforesecskip, there is no \cftaftersecskip, which would suit my purposes.

Any help will be appreciated. Thank you.

-Michael

[gmedina]

Hi,

...The commented part of the included code does indeed give me a blank line. However, it also indents the page number to the left...

That's not the only undesired side effect; with that line of code uncommented you will also get some badboxes.

Instead of

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\renewcommand{\cftsecafterpnum}{\\}

use

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\renewcommand{\cftsecafterpnum}{\vspace*{\baselineskip}}

[mgarruda]

Thanks for the answer, that worked great!

Now, another question. My TOC runs over two pages, and on the second page, I need the exact same title and after title text as on the first page. I'm having trouble forcing it to happen by using the \addtocontents command. The current code is an attempt to force feed LaTeX the right answer.

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\addtocontents{toc}{\protect\newpage}
%\addtocontents{toc}{\contentsname}
\addtocontents{toc}{\protect\makebox[6.5in][c]{TABLE OF CONTENTS (continued)}\protect}
\addtocontents{toc}{\protect\newline}
\addtocontents{toc}{\protect\newline}
\addtocontents{toc}{\protect\newline}
\addtocontents{toc}{\protect\makebox[6.5in][c]{Chapter\hfill{\normalfont Page}}\protect}
\addtocontents{toc}{\protect\newline}
\addtocontents{toc}{\protect\newline}

The "Chapter\hfill{\normalfont Page}" was used in the preamble in the following command:

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\renewcommand{\cftaftertoctitle}{\vspace*{\baselineskip}\mbox{}Chapter\hfill{\normalfont Page}}

Now, this would work, but the text boxes start not at the left margin, but at the point where a section heading starts in the TOC.

Thanks again, any help is greatly appreciated!

-Michael

[mgarruda]

I stumbled across a possible solution. Added some backspace indentation and resized the text boxes to fit.

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\addtocontents{toc}{\protect\newpage}
\addtocontents{toc}{\protect\makebox[6.5in][c]{\hspace{-0.5in}TABLE OF CONTENTS (continued)}\protect}
\addtocontents{toc}{\protect\newline}
\addtocontents{toc}{\protect\newline}
\addtocontents{toc}{\protect\newline}
\addtocontents{toc}{\protect\makebox[6.0in][c]{\hspace{-0.5in}Chapter\hfill{\normalfont Page}}\protect}
\addtocontents{toc}{\protect\newline}
\addtocontents{toc}{\protect\newline}

-Michael