Page LayoutSpacing between section numbers and titles in TOC / LOT / LO

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greybadger
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Spacing between section numbers and titles in TOC / LOT / LO

Post by greybadger »

Hi,

I am using the default, bog-standard, report class:

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\documentclass[a4paper,11pt,twoside,openright]{report}
In my TOC / LOT / LOF, when the entry numbering goes beyond four characters (i.e. 10.10 as opposed to 10.9), there is no space between the number and the heading. I.e.
10.9 Heading 1
10.10Heading 2
This is independent of indent level. Clearly, I need to add another space to the heading indent at all levels. However, reading the tocloft documentation it isn't clear to me how to achieve this (indeed, the layout diagram and text explicitly says this spacing isn't configurable).

I'd appreciate any suggestions on how to achieve this.

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phi
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Spacing between section numbers and titles in TOC / LOT / LO

Post by phi »

The spacing itself isn't configurable, but the width of the numbers is (via the \cftXnumwidth lengths).
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