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I have modified the formatting of subsections in the toc, so that they appear in one line instead of separate lines. For this i used the titletoc package. Here is a MWE:

\documentclass{scrbook}

\usepackage{titletoc}
\titlecontents*{subsection}%
    [3.8em]%
    {\small\itshape}%
    {\hyperlink{subsection.\thecontentslabel}{\thecontentslabel}\ }%
    {}%
    {\ \thecontentspage}%
    [,\ ]%
    [.]%

\usepackage[colorlinks=true,linktoc=all]{hyperref}

\begin{document}

\tableofcontents 

\chapter{Chapter}
\section{Section}
\subsection{Subsection}
\subsection{Another Subsection}
\clearpage
\section{Another Section}
\end{document}

This was very easy, but there are two problems:

  1. The subsection label is not included in the link. This is already fixed in the MWE with the help of the answer to this question: Common style for global TOC, LOF, LOT and titletoc partial TOCs (with hyperref & caption)
  2. The link to the section following the modified subsections points to the wrong location. In the MWE the link of '1.2 Another Section' points to '1.1.1 Subsection'.

I have not found a solution to the second problem. I have experimented with \phantomsection without any success. I have read here that titletoc has some incompatibilities with hyperref and tried to implement the same behavior with the tocloft package. I managed to get something similar, but not quite right. The tocloft approach seems to be so much more convenient, if the links would work properly.

On a sidenote: The document i want to apply this to is rather large and is typeset with the classicthesis style.

I would appreciate any tips or solutions to this problem.

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  • I'm using texlive 2012 (via official ppa backport), scrbase 2012/05/15 v3.11 KOMA-Script package and titletoc 1.6. Your code is working like a charm without any problem or wrong linking.
    – Pouya
    Jun 9, 2014 at 12:31
  • @Pouya: Really? My output does not provide the desired linking. I wonder, if titletoc really sets a \hypertarget command at all in the corresponding sections, subsections etc.
    – user31729
    Jun 9, 2014 at 13:30
  • @ChristianHupfer, I think so... Maybe I haven't understand the question perfectly, so here is my pdf. Tell me if I got it wrong.
    – Pouya
    Jun 9, 2014 at 13:39
  • @Pouya: I believe you ;-) I think, the problem is due to some clash between titletoc and the KOMA classes
    – user31729
    Jun 9, 2014 at 13:42
  • @ChristianHupfer, I just checked, the problem remains when using the standard article document class. The result just doesn't look so nice....
    – CFL
    Jun 9, 2014 at 13:49

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This is a workaround, (or hack ;-)), it seems, that titletoc screws up the hyperlinks of sections for some reason I have not figured out so far.

I redefined the \section command to manually set the hyperlinks and a dummy hypertarget right after the section starts. It works for \section{} and \section[]{} commands, but not for \section*{}, but this writes no entry to the TOC, so this is something you can live with(???).

I also used \usepackage{classicthesis}, which seems to come before titletoc, otherwise the toc style is not used.

\documentclass{scrbook}

\usepackage[colorlinks=true,linktoc=all]{hyperref} % Normally last!!!
\usepackage{classicthesis}

\usepackage{titletoc}


\titlecontents*{subsection}%
    [3.8em]%
    {\small\itshape}%
    {\phantomsection\hyperlink{subsection::\arabic{chapter}.\arabic{section}.\arabic{subsection}}{\thecontentslabel}\ }%
    {}%
    {\ \thecontentspage}%
    [,\ ]%
    [.]%




\let\LaTeXStandardSection\section%

\makeatletter
\newcommand{\section@noopt}[1]{%
\LaTeXStandardSection[\protect\hyperlink{section::\thesection}{#1}]{#1}%
\phantomsection%
\hypertarget{section::\thesection}{}% Empty target
}%

\newcommand{\section@opt}[2][]{%
\LaTeXStandardSection[\protect\hyperlink{section::\thesection}{#1}]{#2}%
\phantomsection%
\hypertarget{section::\thesection}{}% Empty target
}%


\renewcommand{\section}{%
\@ifnextchar[{\section@opt}{\section@noopt}%
}%
\makeatother    

\begin{document}



\tableofcontents 

\chapter{First}

\chapter{Chapter}
\section{Section}
\newpage
\subsection{Subsection}
\subsection{Another Subsection}
\clearpage
\section{Another Section}%
\clearpage
\section[Yet Another Section]{Yet another section with a different short title}
\subsection{Yet another subsection}
\subsection{Yet another another subsection}%
\chapter{Next chapter}
\section[Yet Another Section]{Yet another section with a different short title}
\subsection{Yet another subsection}
\subsection{Yet another another subsection}%

\end{document}
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  • thanks, that was quick. This works, but it produces some warnings: Package hyperref Warning: Token not allowed in a PDF string I guess i can live with that as I prefer to keep the current version of hyperref.
    – CFL
    Jun 9, 2014 at 14:51
  • While the MWE is fixed with your code, it does not fix the document i am working on. There must be an additional problem elsewhere. However, that will take a while to look into, so i guess it is down to v6.82q for now...
    – CFL
    Jun 9, 2014 at 15:26
  • @CFL: Could you perhaps post your more elaborate document or at least the relevant portions of it, so that I can look for some solution. I suspect, that linking to the toc requires some redefinition of the other sectioning commands as well -- I already feared that this could be an issue. You could also contact Heiko Oberdiek in TeX.SX chat.
    – user31729
    Jun 9, 2014 at 17:08
  • that is a very generous offer, thank you. For now I have not encountered any new problems by using the older version of hyperref. As that is fixing the problem, I want to spare you looking through my messy code. Anyway, a real fix could only be worked out when looking into the internals of titletoc and hyperref, I suppose.
    – CFL
    Jun 10, 2014 at 9:22
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The problem seems to be a clash between titletoc v1.6 and the current version of hyperref v6.83m. Downgrading to hyperref v6.82q solves the problem. However, using the outdated version of hyperref might produce other complications.

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This was fixed in version 2.11 of titletoc; see the changelog at https://github.com/jbezos/titlesec

When I switched to this version of titletoc, it solved this problem for me.

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