Page Layout ⇒ Customizing table of contents

[craig]

I have encountered a problem when trying to customize my table of contents.

I am using my own adaption of the package 'fncychap' and I am happy with the layout of most of the document. However I would like to adjust the (vertical) position where the first line of the table of contents is set.

I tried:

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\usepackage{tocloft}
\renewcommand{\cftaftertoctitle}{\vskip-1.5cm}

which seemed to work well. Except it removed my customized title and replaced it with its own. I had a look through the documentation and discovered that:

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\usepackage[titles]{tocloft}
\renewcommand{\cftaftertoctitle}{\vskip-1.5cm}

should do the trick. This has allowed me to use my customized title however it has also added the space I was trying to remove back in.

Any suggestions would be appreciated!

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Craig,

welcome to the board!
It would be easier for forum users to examine your problem if you would provide a compilable minimal working example.

Stefan

[craig]

I think this contains the points which are causing the problem but I should point out that I am using other packages as well (graphicx, setspace, fancyhdr, mathptmx, color, fontenc, geometry and hyperref). I should also point out that the chapter titles I am using have been customized but are based on that shown below.

I am trying to get a similar seperation between the chapter title and the first line of text in the table of contents as can be seen in the 'Acknowledgements' chapter.

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\documentclass[a4paper,12pt,oneside]{book}

\usepackage[titles]{tocloft}
\usepackage[Bjornstrup]{fncychap}

\renewcommand{\cftaftertoctitle}{\vskip-1.5cm}

\begin{document}
\frontmatter

\chapter{Acknowledgements}\markright{Acknowledgements}

\markright{Table of Contents}\tableofcontents

\end{document}

Thanks

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Craig,

this workaround using \addtocontents could do it, right after \begin{document}:

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\addtocontents{toc}{\protect\vspace{-1.5cm}}

Stefan

[craig]

That's done the trick!

Thanks!