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LaTeX Cookbook

You're reading from   LaTeX Cookbook Over 90 hands-on recipes for quickly preparing LaTeX documents to solve various challenging tasks

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781784395148
Length 378 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Stefan Kottwitz Stefan Kottwitz
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. The Variety of Document Types FREE CHAPTER 2. Tuning the Text 3. Adjusting Fonts 4. Working with Images 5. Beautiful Designs 6. Designing Tables 7. Contents, Indexes, and Bibliographies 8. Getting the Most out of the PDF 9. Creating Graphics 10. Advanced Mathematics 11. Science and Technology 12. Getting Support on the Internet Index

Tuning a table of contents, lists of figures, and tables


When we start using LaTeX, the automatic creation of a table of contents (ToC) is impressive. The ToC with sectioning titles and page numbers is generated from your heading texts in commands such as \part, \chapter, and \section. The lists of figures and tables work in exactly the same way while they use the texts in the \caption command for the list entries. The design of the default table of contents follows a very common style. In some cases, though, you might need to adjust it.

How to do it...

We will use the tocstyle package to customize the table of contents. It belongs to the KOMA-Script bundle. You can try the settings of the recipe in your own document, or use the example from Chapter 1, The Variety of Document Types.

Automatic correction of widths

The default widths of numbers of sectioning numbers and page numbers in the ToC are static. This can lead to problems with large sectioning numbers, as well as with large page numbers...

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