Resources for designing a table of contents

Question

What various packages, example code, or examples of existing documents with available source code are available to assist one in:

• Changing the style and formating of a table of contents?
• Building a new design for the table of contents from scratch?

Answer 1

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Packages

• tocloft: provides many features for customizing the ToC and the and the ability to create new "Lists of ..."
• titletoc: a companion for titlesec
• tocbasic: offers basic features for managing table of contents and similar lists, for package authors and class writers, is part of the KOMA-Script bundle
• tocstyle: provides many ways of customizing the ToC and such lists, still in development, is part of the KOMA-Script bundle
• minitoc: for adding mini-tables-of-contents (minitocs) at the beginning of every chapter, part or section
• tocbibind: can be used to add the ToC and/or bibliography and/or the index etc. to the table of contents
• tocvsec2: gives control over section numbering and/or the entries in the table of contents on a section by section basis

The memoir class provides features which are very similar to the capabilities of tocloft and tocbibind.

Style gallery

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