[Tex/LaTex] Creating Table of Contents / Section Headings

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I found this article and would like to know how can one create a template (generic) to accomplish this. It would be great to implement a (generic) template to be able to make it for a table of contents, list of figures, list of tables, list of listings (code), etc… I would like the table of contents, table of figures, etc.. to all start on a fresh page instead of running on from the previous section. I will post a external like because you will able to get a better idea of what I am asking. I could post a picture, but the functionality would be taken away, i.e., being able to click the link and it takes you to the appropriate part of the document. I would like to know how is this done for contents,figures, sections, references, footnotes, etc. Also, if one can include how to play around with the color of the wording for the contents would be great. Can I also add, (I know its already a lot, but I think this is the last thing) I would like to be able to move the contents, list of figures, list of tables to the center of the page and I would like if I could have control of what to name them, i.e., Table of Contents instead of Contents produced from \tableofcontents,\listofigures,\listoftables. Okay I will stop here, its already a lot to digest I think.

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TOC and Headings (This is the document that has the centered and underlined section titles that I would like to accomplish).

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In the report class, the table of contents and related lists are typeset as (unnumbered) chapters, i.e., with a page break before them. To center chapter titles and add a rule below them, use the titlesec package. To rename the ToC & friends, redefine the \contentsname, \listfigurename, and\listtablename macros. (If you're using babel, have a look at this question.)

\documentclass{report}

\usepackage{titlesec}
\titleformat{\chapter}[display]{\Large\bfseries\centering}%
    {\chaptername~\thechapter}{1ex}{}[\titlerule]

\renewcommand{\contentsname}{Table of Contents}

\usepackage{lipsum}

\begin{document}

\tableofcontents

\chapter{foo}

\lipsum[1]

\end{document}

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[Tex/LaTex] Header with roman and arabic numerals, list of figures integrated into table of contents

Here's some code. Note that I removed all packages that are unnecessary for the example.

\documentclass[12pt,oneside,a4paper]{article}

\usepackage[
 left=40mm,
 top=30mm,
 right=20mm,
 bottom=20mm,
 headsep=12.5mm,
 headheight=14.5pt, %%% 3mm is too small
 heightrounded
]{geometry}

\usepackage{fancyhdr,xpatch}

\pagestyle{fancy}
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0.0pt}
\fancyhf{}
\fancyhead[R]{Title of topic --- \thepage}

\makeatletter
\let\ORI@section\section
\renewcommand{\section}{\@ifstar\s@section\ORI@section}
\newcommand{\s@section}[1]{%
  \ORI@section*{#1}
  \csname phantomsection\endcsname % for hyperref
  \addcontentsline{toc}{section}{#1}
}
\xpatchcmd{\tableofcontents}{\section}{\ORI@section}{}{} % toc not in toc
\makeatother

\begin{document}
\pagenumbering{roman}

\tableofcontents
\clearpage

\listoffigures
\clearpage

\listoftables 
\clearpage

\section*{Section A}

\clearpage
\pagenumbering{arabic}

\section{Section B}

\end{document}

The code redefines \section so that \section* will automatically add it to the table of contents. There's only one catch: \tableofcontents uses \section*, so it has been patched in order to use the original version of the command.

Some points to note about your original code:

\special is not needed, because geometry takes care of it
the headheight you specified is too small
\makebox[0pt][r]{Title of topic} does nothing more than the simple Title of topic, because fancyhdr uses right alignment anyway there; I also added a dash to separate the title from the page number.
\onehalfspacing is countermanded by \setstretch{1.3}; if you can, avoid increasing the leading.

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If you want to reduce the spacing between section titles, add the following line

\xpatchcmd{\l@section}{1.0em}{0.5ex}{}{}

immediately before \makeatother in the given code. Adjust 0.5ex to what suits you. For the image, I added two subsections in order to give the flavor.

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[Tex/LaTex] How to reduce the size of listoffigures and listoftables titles

If you don't load tocloft your problem goes away.

But since you have loaded it, you are probably going to use its features. Be aware that tocloft changes the way the titles of Table of Contents (ToC), List of Figures (LoF) and List of Tables (LoT) are typeset, in respect to the standard way defined by the document class.

If you want to use your custom titles and tocloft together, you have to inform tocloft about that. This can be done by passing the option titles when loading it, that is, use

\usepackage[titles]{tocloft}

Also, as a side note, you have loaded the tocbibind package with the options notlot and notlof, which causes the LoF and the LoT not to be included in the ToC, but later you issue the following commands

\phantomsection
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{List of Tables}

\phantomsection
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{List of Figures}

which instead add the LoF and the LoT in the ToC.

Since the tocbibind is specifically designed to do these things, simply load it as

\usepackage[nottoc]{tocbibind}

and delete the above lines from your document.

One more thing... Instead of using the commands

\hoffset =  0pt
\oddsidemargin = 36pt
\evensidemargin = 36pt
\marginparwidth = 0pt
\marginparsep = 0pt
\textwidth = 418pt
...

to modify your page layout, I suggest you to have a look at the geometry package, which is specifically designed to handle the page layout.

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