[Tex/LaTex] Common style for global TOC, LOF, LOT and titletoc partial TOCs (with hyperref & caption)

captionshyperreftable of contentstitletoc

I am currently writing my PhD thesis, and I have trouble defining a common style for my global TOC and the partial TOCs generated by titletoc.

Basically if you check the following MWE, I like the general style of the global TOC, in particular the fact that hyperref links include the labels. However, I find that the dotted lines in the global TOC are not dense enough, and prefer those of the partial TOCs.

\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{book}

\usepackage{caption}
\usepackage{titletoc}
\usepackage[colorlinks]{hyperref}
\usepackage{lipsum}

\renewcommand{\cleardoublepage}{\clearpage}

\newcommand{\PartialToc}{\vspace*{0.5pc}\vbox{\bf\large\noindent Chapter contents}\vspace*{0.3pc}\startcontents[chapters]\vspace*{0.3pc}\printcontents[chapters]{p}{1}{}\vspace*{0.3pc}}

\begin{document}

% Custom style for partial TOCs
\titlecontents{psection}[3.6em]{\small\bfseries}{\contentslabel{1.8em}}{}{\mdseries\titlerule*[0.25pc]{.}\contentspage\hspace*{1.8em}}{}
\titlecontents{psubsection}[6.0em]{\small}{\contentslabel{2.4em}}{}{\titlerule*[0.25pc]{.}\contentspage\hspace*{1.8em}}{}

\tableofcontents
\listoffigures
\listoftables

\chapter{Chapter 1}

\vfill
\lipsum[1-2]
\vfill\PartialToc\clearpage

\section{Section 1}
\lipsum[1]

\begin{figure}[t]
    \caption{Figure 1}
\end{figure}

\section{Section 2}
\lipsum[1]
\subsection{Subsection 2.1}
\lipsum[1]
\subsection{Subsection 2.1}
\lipsum[1]
\section{Section 3}
\lipsum[1]

\begin{table}[t]
    \caption{Table 1}
\end{table}

\end{document}

Therefore, I tried to increase the density of the dotted lines in the global TOC, by adding the following titletoc style declarations after \begin{document}:

\titlecontents{section}[3.8em]{}{\contentslabel{2.3em}}{\hspace*{-2.3em}}{\titlerule*[0.25pc]{.}\contentspage}{}
\titlecontents{subsection}[6.2em]{}{\contentslabel{2.9em}}{}{\titlerule*[0.25pc]{.}\contentspage}{}

However, in this case, the hyperref links are changed, which I would like to avoid (no I am not a maniac…). Is there a way to achieve this ? And can this also be used to make the hyperref links in the partial TOCs include the labels ?

And as a subsidiary question, how do I assign the same style to entries in the List of Figures and List of Tables ?

Thank you for your help

Best Answer

The titlesec/titletoc packages are somewhat incompatible with hyperref, and you happened to run into such a situation.

To get the links on the labels in the ToCs back, we have to teach that to titletoc with:

\titlecontents{section}%
  [3.8em]% left
  {}% above code
  {\contentslabel[\hyperlink{section.\thecontentslabel}{\thecontentslabel}]{2.3em}}% numbered entry format
  {\hspace*{-2.3em}}% unnumbered entry format
  {\titlerule*[0.25pc]{.}\contentspage}% filler page format
  {}% below code

\titlecontents{subsection}%
  [6.2em]%
  {}%
  {\contentslabel[\hyperlink{subsection.\thecontentslabel}{\thecontentslabel}]{2.9em}}%
  {}%
  {\titlerule*[0.25pc]{.}\contentspage}%
  {}

% Custom style for partial TOCs
\titlecontents{psection}%
  [3.6em]%
  {\small\bfseries}%
  {\contentslabel[\hyperlink{section.\thecontentslabel}{\thecontentslabel}]{1.8em}}%
  {}%
  {\mdseries\titlerule*[0.25pc]{.}\contentspage\hspace*{1.8em}}%
  {}

\titlecontents{psubsection}%
  [6.0em]%
  {\small}%
  {\contentslabel[\hyperlink{subsection.\thecontentslabel}{\thecontentslabel}]{2.4em}}%
  {}%
  {\titlerule*[0.25pc]{.}\contentspage\hspace*{1.8em}}%
  {}

That is, the format of the contentslabel is changed from being simply \thecontentslabel to a proper hyperlink.

To obtain the narrow dots line in the LoT and LoF I would use package tocloft. This package can also handle the ToC, so you may find that titletoc is superfluous. Just use

\usepackage[titles]{tocloft}
\renewcommand{\cftdotsep}{0.3}
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