[Tex/LaTex] Center Contents heading in tocloft v2.3f

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In the past, I believe this technique was used to center the Contents heading in the table of contents via tocloft:

\documentclass{report}
\usepackage{tocloft}

\renewcommand{\cfttoctitlefont}{\hfill \Huge}
\renewcommand{\cftaftertoctitle}{\hfill}

\begin{document}

\tableofcontents

\chapter{Chap 1}
\chapter{Chap 2}
\chapter{Chap 3}

\end{document}

However I recently updated the package to version v2.3f (2013-05-02) and this no longer centers the heading.

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How do I fix this? The answers for a related question do not work.

Best Answer

From the comment by Marco Daniel, the following modification works.

\documentclass{report}
\usepackage{tocloft}

\renewcommand{\cfttoctitlefont}{\hfil \Huge}

\begin{document}

\tableofcontents

\chapter{Chap 1}
\chapter{Chap 2}
\chapter{Chap 3}

\end{document}

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Related Solutions

TOCloft – How to Center Parts in Table of Contents

Try this:

\documentclass{scrbook}
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{tocloft}

\addtocontents{toc}{\cftpagenumbersoff{part}}
\renewcommand*{\addparttocentry}[2]{%
  \addtocentrydefault{part}{}{\protect\parbox{\textwidth}{\protect\centering#2}}% original #1 in second argument
}

\begin{document}

\tableofcontents

\part{A}
\section{a}
\lipsum
\part{B}
\section{b}
\lipsum

\end{document}

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Instead of \hfil I used a \parbox with centered contents, just in case some title would span more than one line. I suppresses the part number in the ToC with a simple redefinition of \addparttocentry.

You mentioned that you need to use tocloft, but if this is not the case, you can use the tocstyle package (designed especifically for the KOMA classes) instead and say something like:

\documentclass{scrbook}
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{tocstyle}

\usetocstyle{classic}
\settocfeature{pagenumberhook}{}
\renewcommand*{\addparttocentry}[2]{%
  \addtocentrydefault{part}{}{\protect\parbox{\textwidth}{\protect\centering#2}}% original #1 in second argument
}

\begin{document}

\tableofcontents

\part{A}
\section{a}
\lipsum
\part{B}
\section{b}
\lipsum

\end{document}

Warning:

The following solution should be used only for old versions of KOMA-Script (for example, the one in TeX Live2009); for recent versions (those from TeX Live2010 on), please see the code above; I only include this solution here sice the OP is using TeX Live2009 and has no possibility to update:

\documentclass{scrbook}
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{tocloft}

\makeatletter
\def\@part[#1]#2{%
  \ifnum \c@secnumdepth >-2\relax
    \refstepcounter{part}%
    \@maybeautodot\thepart%
    \addcontentsline{toc}{part}{\protect\makebox[0pt][l]{\protect\parbox{\textwidth}{\protect\centering#1}}}%
  \else
    \addcontentsline{toc}{part}{#1}%
  \fi
  \begingroup
    \setparsizes{\z@}{\z@}{\z@\@plus 1fil}\par@updaterelative
    \raggedpart
    \interlinepenalty \@M
    \normalfont\sectfont\nobreak
    \ifnum \c@secnumdepth >-2\relax
      \size@partnumber{\partformat}%
      \partheadmidvskip
    \fi
    \size@part{#2}\strut%
    \partmark{#1}\par
  \endgroup
  \@endpart
}
\makeatother
\addtocontents{toc}{\cftpagenumbersoff{part}}

\begin{document}

\tableofcontents

\part{A}
\section{a}
\lipsum
\part{B}
\section{b}
\lipsum

\end{document}

[Tex/LaTex] Change title of Table of Contents

Typo: it is called \captionsenglish not \captions\english

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TOCloft – How to Center Parts in Table of Contents

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[Tex/LaTex] Change title of Table of Contents

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