[Tex/LaTex] Change TOC to use underline in subsubsections

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I am using the package memoir and I need to redefine the fonts in TOC with this rules:

For Chapters: all-caps and bold
For Sections: bold
For SubSections: bold and italic
For SubSubSections: bold and underline
For SubSubSubSections: nothing to do

I had success to configure sections:

\renewcommand{\cftsectionfont}{\bfseries}

subsections:

\renewcommand{\cftsubsectionfont}{\bfseries\itshape}

But for chapters, I didn't have success to use \MakeUppercase:

\renewcommand{\cftchapterfont}{\MakeUppercase\bfseries}

and for subsubsections, I didn't have success to put on underline

\renewcommand{\cftsubsubsectionfont}{\bfseries\underline}

So, how I put underline and uppercase?

Best Answer

\MakeUppercase and \underline are not font declarations. One has to work harder to achieve the result you want and that, personally, I don't like at all.

\documentclass{memoir}

\usepackage{etoolbox}
\makeatletter
\patchcmd{\l@chapapp}
  {\cftchapterfont #1}
  {\cftchapterfont\MakeUppercase{#1}}
  {}{}

\patchcmd{\l@subsubsection}
  {#1}
  {\ric@subunderline{#1}}
  {}{}

\AtBeginDocument{
  \ifnum\value{secnumdepth}>\tw@
    \def\ric@subunderline#1{\ric@@subunderline#1\@nil}
    \def\ric@@subunderline#1#2#3\@nil{#1{#2}\underline{#3}}
  \else
    \def\ric@subunderline#1{\underline{#1}}
  \fi
}
\makeatother

%%% Fonts
\renewcommand{\cftchapterfont}{\bfseries}
\renewcommand{\cftsectionfont}{\bfseries}
\renewcommand{\cftsubsectionfont}{\bfseries\itshape}
\renewcommand{\cftsubsubsectionfont}{\bfseries}

\settocdepth{subsubsection}
\setsecnumdepth{subsubsection}

\begin{document}
\frontmatter
\tableofcontents*
\mainmatter
\chapter{Some title}
\section{Some title}
\subsection{Some title}
\subsubsection{Some title}
\end{document}

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Related Solutions

[Tex/LaTex] Customize section numbering in TOC

It's definitely not a good idea to define \thesection with formatting instructions. Also, you want to have \thechapter to expand to \arabic{chapter}, so that you need to change its appearance only when typesetting the chapter head.

Here are some changes to your settings. However, I don't like at all the way section and subsection titles are set, but the document is yours.

No redefinition of \thechapter, \thesection and \thesubsection
The \@makechapterhead is patched to print \Ordinalstring{chapter} instead of \thechapter.
Some tidying of the code.

\documentclass[a4paper]{report}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage[scaled=0.92]{helvet}
\usepackage{mathptmx}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage[tracking=true]{microtype}
\usepackage{fmtcount}

\usepackage{etoolbox}
\makeatletter
\patchcmd{\@makechapterhead}
  {\thechapter}
  {\Ordinalstring{chapter}}
  {}{}
\makeatother

\usepackage[rigidchapters,nobottomtitles*,pageatnewline]{titlesec}

\titlespacing*{\section}
              {0em}
              {2em}
              {0.5em}
\titlespacing*{\subsection}
              {0em}
              {2em}
              {0.5em}
\titleformat{\section}
            [display]
            {\fontencoding{T1}\fontfamily{phv}\fontsize{11pt}{13.2pt}\selectfont}
            {\thesection}
            {1ex}
            {}
            {}
\titleformat{\subsection}
            [display]
            {\fontencoding{T1}\fontfamily{phv}\fontsize{11pt}{13.2pt}\selectfont}
            {\thesubsection}
            {0em}
            {}
            {}
%
\usepackage{titletoc}
\titlecontents{chapter}
              [0em]
              {\bfseries}
              {Chapter \thecontentslabel\\*\hspace*{.7em}}
              {}
              {\hfill\contentspage}
\titlecontents{section}
              [1.5em]
              {}
              {{\sffamily\thecontentslabel}\\*\hspace*{.7em}}
              {}
              {\titlerule*[.5pc]{.}\contentspage}
\titlecontents*{subsection}
              [3.8em]
              {}
              {{\sffamily\thecontentslabel}\\*\hspace*{.7em}}
              {}
              {\titlerule*[.5pc]{.}\contentspage}
%

\begin{document}
\chapter{Foo}

\lipsum[1]

\section{Bar}

\lipsum[2]

\subsection{Qux}

\lipsum[3]

\section{Quux}

\lipsum[4]

\subsection{Quux1}

\lipsum[5]

\chapter{foo}

\section{bar}

\lipsum[4]

\subsection{qux}

\lipsum[5]

\tableofcontents

\end{document}

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[Tex/LaTex] titlesec ToC formatting — capitalization, subsection numbering for sections, title formatting

Here's one way to do it:

\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\usepackage{etoolbox}
\usepackage{titlesec}
\usepackage{titletoc}

\titleformat{\section} % command
[hang]                 % shape
{\normalsize\bfseries} % format
{\thesubsection}       % label
{1em}                  % Spacing between label and title
{\MakeUppercase}       % before code
\titlespacing{\section}% Set the spacing around the title
{0pt}                  % Left
{0pt}                  % Above
{0pt}                  % Below

\newcommand\RegToCEntries{
  \titlecontents{section}[2em]
    {\vspace{12pt}}
    {\normalfont\normalsize\contentslabel[\thecontentslabel.0]{2em}\uppercase}
    {\hspace*{-2em}\uppercase}
    {\titlerule*[.75em]{.}\contentspage}
}
\newcommand\AppToCEntries{
  \titlecontents{section}[0em]
    {\vspace{12pt}}
    {\normalfont\normalsize\contentspush{\MakeUppercase{\appendixname}}%
      \contentslabel{-1em}\hspace{2em}\makebox[1em][l]{--}%
    }
    {\hspace*{-2em}}
    {\titlerule*[.75em]{.}\contentspage}
}
\AtBeginDocument{\RegToCEntries}
\pretocmd{\appendix}{\AppToCEntries}{}{}
\patchcmd{\tableofcontents}
  {\contentsname}
  {\hfill\MakeUppercase{\contentsname}\hfill\null}
  {}
  {}

\titleformat{\subsection} % command
[hang]                 % shape
{\bfseries\normalsize} % format
{\thesubsection}       % label
{1em}                  % Spacing between label and title
{}                     % before code
\titlespacing{\subsection}% Set the spacing around the title
{0pt}                  % Left
{0pt}                  % Above
{0pt}                  % Below

\titleformat{\subsubsection} % command
[runin]                % shape
{\bfseries\normalsize} % format
{\thesubsubsection}    % label
{1em}                % Spacing between label and title
{}                     % before code
[.]                    % after code

\begin{document}

\tableofcontents
\clearpage% just for the example
\blinddocument
\appendix
\section{A test appendix}
\section{Another test appendix}

\end{document}

The result:

Explanation

Center the ToC title.

I used the etoolbox package to patch \tableofcontents:

\patchcmd{\tableofcontents}
  {\contentsname}
  {\hfill\MakeUppercase{\contentsname}\hfill\null}
  {}
  {}

Formatting for section entries.

I defined two commands \RegToCEntries and \AppToCEntries:

\newcommand\RegToCEntries{
  \titlecontents{section}[2em]
    {\vspace{12pt}}
    {\normalfont\normalsize\contentslabel[\thecontentslabel.0]{2em}\uppercase}
    {\hspace*{-2em}\uppercase}
    {\titlerule*[.75em]{.}\contentspage}
}
\newcommand\AppToCEntries{
  \titlecontents{section}[0em]
    {\vspace{12pt}}
    {\normalfont\normalsize\contentspush{\MakeUppercase{\appendixname}}%
      \contentslabel{-1em}\hspace{2em}\makebox[1em][l]{--}%
    }
    {\hspace*{-2em}}
    {\titlerule*[.75em]{.}\contentspage}
}

The first one gives the desired formatting for regular sections and the seccond one, for sections in appendix; I added Appendix using \contentspush. The first command is used \AtBeginDocument:

\AtBeginDocument{\RegToCEntries}

and the second one is applied automatically after invoking \appendix:

\pretocmd{\appendix}{\AppToCEntries}{}{}

Suggestion

Your code sets

\titlespacing{\section}% Set the spacing around the title
{0pt}                  % Left
{0pt}                  % Above
{0pt}

which suppresses spacing around section titles; I'd suggest you to use positive values in the last two arguments so section titles will have better vertical spacing with respect to the surrounding text.