General ⇒ Colored headline should show as black in table of contents

[Sapientum]

Hi,

I'm setting up a report in LaTex at the moment, and in order to make it more appealing, I've made the headlnes another color than black. But, the headline is also this color in the table of contents, so I was wondering if it is possible to have it appear black in the table of contents?

It could be because of the way I have defined the color. I don't know.
I have used the \textcolor on the headline. But there must be another way. A way that can define all headlines to be a specific color. How can I do this??

[gmedina]

Hi,

I'm setting up a report in LaTex at the moment, and in order to make it more appealing, I've made the headlnes another color than black. But, the headline is also this color in the table of contents, so I was wondering if it is possible to have it appear black in the table of contents?

One possibility is to use the optional argument of the sectioning commands, as the following example suggests:

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\documentclass{report} 
\usepackage{xcolor}

\begin{document}
\tableofcontents

\chapter[First chapter]{\textcolor{blue}{First chapter}}

\end{document}

[balfonsi]

The reason is that you coded the textcolor in the argument to chapter, or section, or whatever ou want. That's not good programming. You would have the same problem with a fontsize command, for instance. What should be done is to redefine the formatting of chapters, sections, etc. A very good package to easily customize that formatting is titlesec (which has a titletoc companion,incidentally). I suggest you take a look at its documentation.

Regards,
B.A.

[Sapientum]

I will give it a try

Thanks for the quick answers