How to use several different fonts in the table of contents ?

Question

I want to use different font and size for chapters and sections in the table of contents generated by toc. How should I customize the toc?

Answer 1

Use the tocloft package, e.g.,

\makeatletter
\@ifpackageloaded{subfig}  % don't forget that tocloft and subfig interact (RTM)
  {\usepackage[titles,subfigure]{tocloft}}
  {\usepackage[titles]{tocloft}}
 \makeatother

Then define your customisations via commands like

\renewcommand{\cftsecpresnum}{...}
\renewcommand{\cftsecaftersnum}{...}

and

\renewcommand{\cftsecpagefont}{...}

Basically it's a case of wading through tocloft's extensive documentation then getting down to lots of experimenting to see what's possible (pretty much anything) and what you need to write to make it happen as you'd like.