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tolyaua
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Toc formatting

Post by tolyaua »

Hi!
I want to orginize my document in such a way that:
1) the word "chapter" would be in the text AND in the TOC, BUT with a latin number in the TOC, such as <<Chapter I. Eletrodynamics>>.
2) in the TOC the section level would begin with a word "Lection" #.#, where the first # is the chapter number and the second # is the number of the section.
Here is what I wrote:

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\documentclass[12pt]{report}
\usepackage[cp1251]{inputenc}
\usepackage[english]{babel}

\makeatletter
\renewcommand\section{\@startsection {section}{1}{\z@}%
                                   {-3.5ex \@plus -1ex \@minus -.2ex}%
                                   {2.3ex \@plus.2ex}%
                                   {\centering\large\scshape}}
\makeatother

\def\thesection       {Lection \thechapter.\arabic{section}}
\def\thesubsection       {\arabic{subsection}.}

\begin{document}
\setcounter{chapter}{0}
\setcounter{tocdepth}{3} 
\tableofcontents
\chapter*{Introduction}
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Introduction}

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\chapter{Electrodynamics}

\section{Electrostatics}
\subsection{Coulomb's law}

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\subsection{Electrostatic potential}

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\section{Magnetostatics}
\subsection{Ampere's law}

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\chapter{Quantum mechanics}

\section{Schroedinger equation}
\subsection{Derivation}
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\end{document}
This gives me the following thing (see attached file).

From this file you see that the word "Lection #.#" overlaps with the name of the section, also I don't know how to add latin number after the word Chapter in the TOC and finally a spacing between the number of the subsection and its name is too big.

Please, help me with this.

Thanks in advance.
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Stefan Kottwitz
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Post by Stefan Kottwitz »

Hi tolyaua,

the tocloft package supports customization of the table of contents.

Stefan
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magarcan
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Post by magarcan »

Stefan_K wrote:Hi tolyaua,

the tocloft package supports customization of the table of contents.

Stefan
Are the tocloft package able to make TOCs of chapchers like minitoc?? Thanks!
tolyaua
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Post by tolyaua »

Stefan_K wrote:Hi tolyaua,
the tocloft package supports customization of the table of contents.
Stefan
Thanks, Stefan, but I didn't found how to change usual numbers 1, 2 before the chapter name in the TOC to what I want (that is "Chapter III. Bla bla bla") just how to move them and change the style.
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