table of contentsvertical alignment
i am using
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/arsclassica/
as a template. how can i align the page numbers in the table of contents? as i am not familiar with the commands in FrontBackMatter/Contents i do not know how to insert some horizontal fill :S
is there some typographical beauty i fail to appreciate when numbers do not appear in a straight line?
Quick fix:
Redefine \contentsname
\renewcommand{\contentsname}{TABLE OF CONTENTS}
and apply a patch to \@makeschapterhead locally only for the ToC, that means, when you have to issue \tableofcontents, write the lines:
{\makeatletter
\patchcmd{\@makeschapterhead}
{\raggedright}
{\centering}
{}
{}
\tableofcontents
\makeatother}
MWE:
\documentclass{ucthesis}
\usepackage{etoolbox}
\renewcommand{\contentsname}{TABLE OF CONTENTS}
\begin{document}
{\makeatletter
\patchcmd{\@makeschapterhead}
{\raggedright}
{\centering}
{}
{}
\tableofcontents
\makeatother}
\listoffigures
\listoftables
\chapter{Test}
\section{A section}
\end{document}
Output:
I changed the names of the files and the structure slightly, for sake of easyness to provide a solution.
The standard macro \addcontentsline is responsible for the generation of ToC entries. If something should not be added to the ToC, but numbered anyway, it's better to kick out the meaning of \addcontentsline for while inside mydocument.tex. This is most easily done with a \begingroup...\endgroup pair right after \subsection{MyDocument}.
Any redefinition of a command or length changes, counter formatting is only done with such a group and does not affect the outside code.
Please have a look on the ToC, that \section{Another appendix} behaves as usual whereas the Minidocument subsection has its own counter formatting,but is numbered by default, without hard-coding.
Remark
If a book or report class is used, \appendix behaves best with \chapter subdivisions, not with \sections as top level structure units.
\documentclass{book}
\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
%\include{chapters/chapter1}
%\include{chapters/chapter2}
\chapter{chapter1}
\chapter{chapter2}
\appendix
\renewcommand{\thesection}{\Alph{section}}
\input{appendixcontent}
\end{document}
\section{Appendix}
\InputIfFileExists{one}{}{}%
\InputIfFileExists{mydocument}{}{}%
\InputIfFileExists{another}{}%
\section{Another appendix}%
\setcounter{secnumdepth}{5}
\begingroup
\subsection{My Document}
\renewcommand{\thesubsubsection}{\arabic{subsubsection}}
\renewcommand{\addcontentsline}[3]{}% Do nothing
\subsubsection{abc}
\paragraph{hello}
\paragraph{world}
\subparagraph{world 1}
\subparagraph{world 2}
\subsubsection{xyz}
\endgroup
Best Answer
The default setting of page numbers in the table of contents is a precise choice of the ClassicThesis style, based on Bringhurst's book “The Elements of Typographic Style”.
The idea is that one doesn't need to sum up page numbers, so they don't need to be aligned.
You can get right aligned page numbers by passing the
dottedtocoption toclassicthesis:If I compile the manual of ArsClassica with this change, I get
to be compared with the default rendering