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I stumbled upon this TOC today:
I really like its structure and simplicity. The page numbers are right behind the entries, and not unnecessarily remote as they often are. The separation between chapter numbering on the left and titles on the right clearly sets the two apart.
I would like to reproduce this design for a book, but have no idea where to start. Can you show me how to reproduce this?
Bonus
Do you have any idea how this could be extended to also list sections, and remove the authors?
Use etoc.
The update enables sections in the TOC (see below for the first answer). Furthermore, it uses \chaptername, \partname (available in the book class) for internationalization. And it uses a non-breakable space before the page number.
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{etoc}
\etocsetlevel{authors}{1}
\etocsetlevel{section}{2}
\etocsetlevel{subsection}{3}
\etocsettocdepth{section}
\newcommand{\authorstotoc}[1]{\etoctoccontentsline{authors}{#1}}
\newlength{\tocleft}
\setlength{\tocleft}{3cm}
\newlength{\tocsep}
\setlength{\tocsep}{2em}
\etocsetstyle{part}{}{}{{\bfseries\makebox[0pt][r]
{\partname\ \etocnumber\hspace{\tocsep}}%
\etocname\kern1em\relax\etocpage\par}\vspace{3ex}}{}
% to avoid possible line breaks between chapter (or part) name and page number
% replace \quad by \kern1em\relax
\etocsetstyle{chapter}{}{}{\etocifnumbered
{\makebox[0pt][r]
{\chaptername\ \etocnumber\hspace{\tocsep}}}
{\ifcase\TEMP
\def\TEMP{1}\or\def\TEMP{2}%
\makebox[0pt][r]
{\parbox[t]{\dimexpr\tocleft-\tocsep\relax}
{\raggedleft Introductory\\ \strut \chaptername}%
\hspace{\tocsep}}\fi
}\textbf{\etocname\kern1em\relax\etocpage}\par
\etocifnumbered{}{\vspace{2ex}}}{}
\etocsetstyle{authors}{}{}{\etocname\par\vspace{1ex}}{\vspace{2ex}}
\etocsetstyle{section}{}{}{\makebox[0pt][r]{\etocnumber\hspace{\tocsep}}%
\etocname\kern1em\etocpage\par}{}
\etocsettocstyle {\noindent\sffamily{\LARGE \contentsname}\par
\thispagestyle{empty}%
\noindent\rule{\dimexpr\tocleft-\tocsep}{1pt}\par\vspace{3ex}%
\leftskip\tocleft\parindent0pt\def\TEMP{0}}{}
\begin{document}
\frontmatter
\tableofcontents
\chapter{Preface}
\mainmatter
\chapter*{A Few Words About Systems Engineering}
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{A Few Words About Systems Engineering}
\part{Systems Engineering Practice}
\chapter{Methodology for an integrated Definition of a System and its
Subsystems: The Case-Study of an Airplane and its Subsystems}
\authorstotoc{Sergio Chiesa, Marco Fioriti and Nicole Viola}
\section{This is a section}
\section{This is another section}
\chapter{Complex-Systems Design Methodology for Systems-Engineering
Collaborative Environment}
\authorstotoc{Guido Ridolfi, Erwin Mooij and Sabrina Corpino}
\section{Another section}
\section{One more section}
\chapter*{A Few Words About Systems Engineering}
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{A Few Words About Systems Engineering}
\section*{An unnumbered section}
\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{An unnumbered section}
\end{document}
Earlier code, for the TOC without sections:
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{etoc}
\etocsetlevel{authors}{1}
\etocsetlevel{section}{2}
\etocsettocdepth{authors}
\newcommand{\authorstotoc}[1]{\etoctoccontentsline{authors}{#1}}
\newlength{\tocleft}
\setlength{\tocleft}{3cm}
\newlength{\tocsep}
\setlength{\tocsep}{2em}
\etocsetstyle{part}{}{}{{\bfseries\makebox[0pt][r]
{Part \etocnumber\hspace{\tocsep}}%
\etocname\quad\etocpage\par}\vspace{3ex}}{}
% to avoid possible line breaks between chapter (or part) name and page number
% replace \quad by \kern1em\relax
\etocsetstyle{chapter}{}{}{\etocifnumbered
{\makebox[0pt][r]
{Chapter \etocnumber\hspace{\tocsep}}}
{\ifcase\TEMP
\def\TEMP{1}\or\def\TEMP{2}%
\makebox[0pt][r]
{\parbox[t]{\dimexpr\tocleft-\tocsep\relax}
{\raggedleft Introductory\\ \strut Chapter}%
\hspace{\tocsep}}\fi
}\textbf{\etocname\quad\etocpage}\par
\etocifnumbered{}{\vspace{2ex}}}{}
\etocsetstyle{authors}{}{}{\etocname\par\vspace{2ex}}{}
\etocsettocstyle {\noindent\sffamily{\LARGE \contentsname}\par
\thispagestyle{empty}%
\noindent\rule{\dimexpr\tocleft-\tocsep}{1pt}\par\vspace{3ex}%
\leftskip\tocleft\parindent0pt\def\TEMP{0}}{}
\begin{document}
\frontmatter
\tableofcontents
\chapter{Preface}
\mainmatter
\chapter*{A Few Words About Systems Engineering}
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{A Few Words About Systems Engineering}
\part{Systems Engineering Practice}
\chapter{Methodology for an integrated Definition of a System and its
Subsystems: The Case-Study of an Airplane and its Subsystems}
\authorstotoc{Sergio Chiesa, Marco Fioriti and Nicole Viola}
\chapter{Complex-Systems Design Methodology for Systems-Engineering
Collaborative Environment}
\authorstotoc{Guido Ridolfi, Erwin Mooij and Sabrina Corpino}
\end{document}
\quad by \kern1em\relax.
\usepackage[utf8]{vietnam} with your code?
May 16, 2014 at 23:52
\chaptername\ and \partname\ rather than Chapter and Part. There remains to translate Introductory in the code (and I don't know if it then should come before or after the translated Chapter).
This is not an answer to “how to reproduce”, but could give you some notion about how to start. Look at the TOC of my note on functional analysis. It is not what you're after, but I think you'll agree it is nonstandard.
Here is some (most?) of the code implementing this, from a local class file:
\renewcommand\l@chapter[2]
{\vrule width0pt height 16pt depth 4pt
\normalfont\bfseries#1&\normalfont\bfseries#2\cr}
\renewcommand\l@section[2]{\small#1&\small#2\cr}
\renewcommand\tableofcontents{\par
\bigskip
\begingroup\centering
\renewcommand\numberline[1]{Chapter ##1:\enspace}
\leavevmode
\vbox{\baselineskip10pt
\halign{\hfil##\quad$\cdot$&\quad##\hfil\cr
\@input{\jobname.toc}}}
\par\endgroup
\newwrite\tf@toc
\immediate\openout\tf@toc\jobname.toc}
A bit of explanation: Here are the first two lines from the .toc file:
\contentsline {chapter}{\numberline {1}Transfinite induction}{3}
\contentsline {section}{Wellordering}{3}
These expand into (assuming @ is a letter)
\l@chapter{\numberline {1}Transfinite induction}{3}
\l@section{Wellordering}{3}
so \l@chapter and friends are the macros that need tweaking. Here, I made them produce output suitable for going into an \halign construct.
From these ideas, you may be able to produce something similar for your preferred layout. You will need to alter the \chapter command to also include author information in its call to \addcontentsline, and of course \l@chapter must be able to pick this information out of its two argument. Easy solution: Let the first argument have the form {chapter title}{author info} and use an auxiliary macro to tease the bits apart.
Disclaimer: It's years since I wrote that code. My understanding of it has very likely deteriorated.
