{tocloft} is a package providing control over the typography of the Table of Contents, List of Figures and List of Tables, and the ability to create new "List of ...".
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Replacing dot leaders in the table of contents with better typography
Dot leaders are the lines of dots in the table of contents, for example.
Bringhurst says of them:
[They] force the eye to walk the width of the page like a prisoner being escorted back to its cell ...
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How do I get \chaptername to appear in the table of contents?
In my tex file I have changed the chapter name from 'Chapter' to 'Day', using:
\renewcommand \chaptername {Day}
But when I generate a table of contents it only shows '1' and not 'Day 1'. How do I ...
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How to show \listoffigures and \listoftables on one page and in the toc?
Is it possible to put the list of figures and tables onto one page? I only have two tables in my thesis, so having it on an extra page looks quite bad.
I've read about the tocloft package and tried ...
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How do I create custom “list of…”s on a section level?
I have a long document with frequent uses on an environment that needs to be indexed on a per-section basis. I know that the tocloft package allows creation of custom "list of..."s I also know that ...
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List of Figures - how to add caption label
I'm using the caption package.
In the List-Of-Figures I get only the numbers, but I also want to have the prefix.
It currently looks like that:
List of Figures
1 Caption of Figure 1........1
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List of figures: source below image caption?
I'm relatively new to LaTeX and currently working on a paper. In my list of figures, I'd like to have a structure like this:
Fig. 1: <Title of figure> . . . 1
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Remove vertical space before table of contents title
I've been trying to figure out a way to easily reduce the space/gap from the top of the page to the table of contents title, as in to reduce the vertical space before the table of contents begins.
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Why \leaders and \mkern works strangely in different font size?
I can hardly determine a good title for this question, I'm sorry.
Minimal test code:
\documentclass{minimal}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\begin{document}
foo
{\fontsize{18}{18}\leaders\hbox{$\mkern ...
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How to highlight specific entries in a tocloft-formatted ToC
I am writing a document using the book class, and I use tocloft in order to customize the appearance of my ToC. So far, the package did a great job for most customizations, except for one thing: I am ...
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\part and tocloft
The following code was provided by Martin Scharrer in reply to a post in May 10.
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage[british]{babel}
\usepackage[titles]{tocloft}
\usepackage{tocloft}
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loading tocloft makes \ifdefined\chapter TRUE in article class
I am using the article class, and I discovered that the tocloft package defines \chapter, which will mess up with my other stuff. How does this happen? Can I make \chapter "undefined" again after ...
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In table of contents, long page numbers intrude on right margin despite plenty of available space
Some of the page numbers listed in my table of contents are long roman numerals. For some reason, these long page numbers get pushed into the right margin.
Here is a screenshot of the table of ...
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How to replace fixed indentation of ToC entry names with fixed space between number and name?
How to make indents as in the second image?
This is what it looks like now:
This is what it should look like:
MWE:
\documentclass[a4paper, 14pt, english]{extreport}
\usepackage[T2A]{fontenc} ...
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Add colors that depend on chapters to the TOC
I'would like to add different colors in my TOC, depending on the chapter. I've a color for the header, section subsection of each chapter (red chapter one, blue chapter two etc...). With this code I ...
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Line of dots in Table of Contents?
In my ToC, the "Bibliography" entry is treated as a chapter heading, so has no line of dots to the page number. However, as it has no sections, my publishers would like the line of dots. Same for ...
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How do I indent the 2nd line a long chapter name created using the tocloft package so that it lines up correctly?
I am using the tocloft package already. I have a couple of long chapter names that wrap onto a second line, but it lines it up with the section numbers below. I must have this new line line up with ...
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Keep “Appendix #” in the appendix title, but remove the appendix from the table of contents
I'm writing a PhD thesis, and my university requires that I list the appendices in a "List of Appendices" (LOA) that is separate from the main table of contents (TOC). I've successfully created a LOA ...
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List of Equations / Table of Equations
After finding Table of Equations and http://www.latex-community.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=428, I set about making a List of Equations for my document. The catch here is that we already have a ...
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\chaptername is used even for appendix chapters in ToC
I have searched for something to resolve a problem that has shown up here:
How do I get \chaptername to appear in the table of contents?
I have tried the code from that thread. But I got an issue, ...
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Question about indent lengths in ToC
It seems that there is a different length between the different levels. It seems it is larger between the subsection and subsubsection as opposed to between the section and subsection. I have read ...
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List of Figures: How do I get a vertical space between figures from my final chapter and my first appendix?
I'm using tocloft with the report document class. I have four chapters and some appendices. My List of Figures produces vertical spacing between figures from different chapters, but it does not add ...
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how to add extra vspace in TOC after one specific section?
I like some extra vertical white space in the TOC after one specific section.
So far I have:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{etoolbox}
\usepackage{tocloft}
\preto\section{%
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Tocloft and list of figure: Change Line Spacing between listings
This not the same question as here.
While creating a list of figures with tocloft the way shown in the example, I would like to control the line spacing between the listings of the figures. With ...
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List of appendices with tocloft and memoir
I found a very nice example showing how to create a list of appendices here: How to get a list of appendices? but it doesn't seem to work with the memoir document class. I get the error message ...
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Adding indents to the ToC without adding dotted lines between sections
I wanted to add indents to format my ToC so I added the tocloft package I saw recommended on other threads. Now the indentation is perfect, but there is a dotted line in between each section in the ...
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ToC, LoF, LoT with same style as chapter style
I've added ToC, LoF and LoT in a .tex file in which the chapter style is Glenn.
The problem is that ToC, LoF and LoT don't adapt the desired style, while bibliography i.e. does. I've tried
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Move (sub)section number right of (sub)section title in table of contents
I restyled the \section and \subsection a little bit, to better suite my needs when writing assignments. Using titlesec, I moved the (sub)section number to the right of the (sub)section title. In my ...
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How to emulate titletoc with tocloft
I was using titletoc until I realized that it has some incompatibilities with hyperref. The thing is, that titletoc can do the same thing in a easier way, less one.
\titlecontents*{subsection}[5.4em]
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Let chapter number be distinct in mainmatter and ToC
I would like the chapter number to be different in mainmatter and ToC.
In the ToC I would like to see :
chapter 1 ...
bla bla bla
chapter 2 ...
bla bla bla
But if I did :
...
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Appendix Chapters typeset as Sections in ToC
I am very new to LaTeX and still more in a trial and error phase than on a real understanding level.
My goal is to have all appendices - which are chapters and I would like to keep it that way - to ...
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Extra space for numbered titles in table of contents
Background
A manual with chapters, sections, subsections, and sub-subsections. Using KOMA Script v2.
Problem
The spacing between the heading title and its number is too close to the number in some ...
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Center parts in toc with tocloft
I'm trying to create a toc in a large Latex document which uses the KOMA script.
In the toc I would like to center the parts and remove all other components (pagenumber, partnumber). I use tocloft (a ...
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Positioning the beginning of table of content (toc) to the top of the page
I managed with great help from here to shift the beginning of the chapter titles to the top of the page, but it doesn't affect the table of content. Why is that? And how could I do that?
I don't ...
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Minimal code to support table of contents in custom class
I'm trying to create a custom class to replace the class book and need to include ToC functionality. Placing the command \tableofcontents leads to error "Undefined control sequence". Using packages ...
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Efficient use of several lists of … in a document
Friends, I'm stuck with a design issue. I'm writing a songbook with thousands of songs (using the songs package). So far so good.
These days I decided to create indices for each song style/genre, ...
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Remove section number ToC entries with tocloft
I have formatted a ToC with tocloft package. I have it almost right, but I would like to remove the numbers of the sections; just leave the section names.
I am trying different commands but I can not ...
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Chapter descriptions in the TOC, but at a fixed width
I'm really in love with the TOC one gets using the accepted answer at
Adding a per-chapter image along with group of entries in ToC.
However, instead of having sections in my TOC, I'd like to ...
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List of [newfloat] – change font
Using the tocloft package, I can change the appearance of the "List of Tables/Figures" by redefining \cfttoctitlefont etc.
However, I created a new float type, called "Example", with the newfloat ...
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How to adjust \cftchapnumwidth dynamically?
I'm using tocloft package to format Table of Contents.
The problem is reproduced in the following minimal working example. The indentation level of Appendix A is incorrect. But the command ...
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Replacing page number with other counter in listoftodos
I'm using the todonotes package to add notes in my documents. The \listoftodos command adds a ToC for todos.
Instead of the page numbers in this ToC, I would like to display another value, for ...
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Something's wrong with tocloft
I want the right margin of TOC to be straight. Instead of this Latex violates the bound (Pic. 1). If babel is commented out (with the last \addcontentsline), the result is still buggy (Pic. 2). ...
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restricting hyperref link to part of toc / lo* entry
In some tocloft list there are entries, which may span multiple lines. Now hyperref makes the number in front, the first line and all the following lines into links. Can this be prevented? Only the ...
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Table of Contents with Chapter and Appendix
I'm using this code to get word Chapter in TOC before each chapter.
\documentclass[a4paper]{book}
\usepackage{tocloft,calc}
\renewcommand{\cftchappresnum}{Chapter }
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Separate table of appendices - pdf bookmarks & avoid previous chapter's format
I'm trying to format my thesis which requires a seperate list of appendices. Thanks to a really useful post - Creating a separate list of appendices with tocloft - I have the list up and running. I'm ...
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Changing the TOC style of an Article document-class
When typesetting an article documentclass, the sections appear as bold in the table of contents, with no leading dots. I would like to change these to non-bold, and insert some leading dots. I tried ...
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Customizing the list of listings generated by \lstlistoflistings?
I'm using listings in my document, and its command \lstlistoflistings to generate the list of listings. The problem is that I've customized all the other lists (TOC, LOF and LOT). More precisely, I've ...
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How do I get the table of contents, list of figures and list of tables to have the header I specify
I used \renewcommand\contentsname{\Large{TABLE OF CONTENTS}} (similar for list of figures and list of tables) to obtain headers that were centered at the top of the page, not bold and capitalized. ...
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Uppercase sections and subsections on ToC
How can I insert \MakeUppercase inside the table of contents for sections and subsection?
\renewcommand{\l@section}[2]%
{\@dottedtocline{1}{.5em}{1.3em}%
{{\bfseries\selectfont#1}}{#2}}
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Wrong small cap title in toc
In what follows, I do not know why the "a" of the appendix in the toc is not a small cap?
\documentclass[12pt]{book}
\usepackage{kpfonts}
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Tocloft and List of Figures: Get rid of title and begin right at the top
I am using tocloft to create an List of Figures. Now I would like to get rid of title and the list of figure should begin right at the top after the chapter title. I know the following is not a ...
