TOC chapter entry alignment

Question

I am having trouble formatting the TOC for a document. I have long chapter titles which wrap onto two lines of TOC text. The problem is that the second line of a single chapter title is aligned with the chapter number, but I need it to align with the beginning of the title text on the first line:

I am using a style file that floats around my school, and here is the \l@chapter definition:

\def\l@chapter#1#2{%
\pagebreak[3]
\vskip .75em plus 1pt \@tempdima 1.5em 
\begingroup
    \parindent \z@ \rightskip \@pnumwidth
    \parfillskip -\@pnumwidth
    \leavevmode {\MakeUppercase{#1}\mydotfill \hbox to\@pnumwidth{\hss #2}}
    \par
\endgroup
}

Any ideas for how to get the second line to align with the text on the first??

thanks!

Answer 1

Here is perhaps an easier way of achieving it:

\documentclass{report}

\makeatletter
\def\l@chapter#1#2{%
\pagebreak[3]
\vskip .75em plus 1pt \@tempdima 1.5em 
\begingroup
  \parindent \z@ \rightskip \@pnumwidth
  \parfillskip -\@pnumwidth
  \advance\leftskip\@tempdima
  \hskip -\leftskip
  \leavevmode \MakeUppercase{#1}\dotfill \hbox to\@pnumwidth{\hss #2}
  \par
\endgroup
}
\makeatother

\begin{document}

\tableofcontents

\chapter{This is a super long chapter heading that requires more than one line in the Table of Contents}

\end{document}

The adjustment of \leftskip is taken directly from the definition of \l@chapter in book.cls.

Answer 2

My wife came up with a solution! (similar to Sigur). I put a manual line break and \hspace* in the short title, and adjusted the hspace distance until it lined up. Not elegant, but effective!