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How can I remove the vertical spacing before each section in the table of contents from a 'article' documentclass?

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the question's title means chapter, the question's body refers to section. Btw. before sections there's no space, but before chapters there is. – Stefan Kottwitz♦ Mar 14 '11 at 19:58
Hugo, please also update the title if you want change the spacing of section lines instead of chapter lines. Note that simple changing \l@section to \l@chapter in Gonzalo's answer might not work. – Martin Scharrer♦ Mar 14 '11 at 19:59
It actually works... I meant about referring to section, because chapter does not exist in the 'article' documentclass. Yes, I made a lot of mistakes in this question, but the answer's still valid. – Hugo S Ferreira Mar 14 '11 at 20:15

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You can redefine \l@section as implemented in article.cls and suppress (or comment out) the line \addvspace{1.0em \@plus\p@}% responsible for the extra space. Simply add these lines to the preamble of your document:

\makeatletter
\renewcommand*\l@section[2]{%
  \ifnum \c@tocdepth >\z@
    \addpenalty\@secpenalty
    \setlength\@tempdima{1.5em}%
    \begingroup
      \parindent \z@ \rightskip \@pnumwidth
      \parfillskip -\@pnumwidth
      \leavevmode \bfseries
      \advance\leftskip\@tempdima
      \hskip -\leftskip
      #1\nobreak\hfil \nobreak\hb@xt@\@pnumwidth{\hss #2}\par
    \endgroup
  \fi}
\makeatother
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You can do this easily with the tocloft package:

\usepackage{tocloft}
\renewcommand{\cftbeforesecskip}{0pt}

will do what you want.

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Not only did that work, it also solved a problem I had with styles! Thx! – Hugo S Ferreira Mar 14 '11 at 21:34

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