Customise Table of Contents header and heading

Question

When using \tableofcontents my TOC gets generated like this:

Why does the word Contents appear twice and what is the easiest way of changing it to only show the header and not the big heading. How can I change the actual word to something like "Table of Contents", and also switch it to a different font like Times New Roman? I am using \documentclass[paper=a5,pagesize=pdftex]{scrbook} in this instance and the current font seems to be associated with that.

Although when using

\dottedcontents{chapter}[2.5em]{}{2.3em}{1pc}

it comes out like this:

Which looks a little better around the contents, but still with the main heading and header in the same fashion.

Answer 1

Try

\KOMAoptions{headings=small}
\addtokomafont{disposition}{\rmfamily\mdseries}

to decrease the font size and change the font family/series for all chapter/section headings consistently. To adjust the content of the chapter heading preceding the table of contents, redefine \contentsname, e.g.:

\renewcommand*{\contentsname}{Table of Contents}

By default, the first page of a chapter (and hence of the table of contents) does not include a running headline. I don't know why you get one. Ensure that you haven't put a

\thispagestyle{headings}

after \tableofcontents. Moreover, check that you haven't redefined \chapterpagestyle as

\renewcommand*{\chapterpagestyle}{headings}

Answer 2

You can change the title of the table of contents following the instructions here: http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=fixnam

You can probably also change the font that way, but that is not recommended as according to the LaTeX philosophy the font should be determined via your document class consistently for section titles throughout the document. (As far as I know, scrbook is part of KOMA-Script - its documentation will probably contain some pointers on customising fonts etc.)

Regarding your first question - are you sure the first, smaller "Contents" isn't a header line for the page (i.e. not generated by \tableofcontents)?

Answer 3

I think the answer can be found in tocloft package -- http://www.ctex.org/documents/packages/contents/tocloft.pdf