[Tex/LaTex] Custom table of contents layout

table of contents

I am trying to achieve the following layout of the table of contents

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But I'm a little lost on how to use the titlesec package, because I do not know if this package is really for editing the table of contents or just for the titles…

I appreciate your help

Current advances:

\documentclass[letterpaper,12pt,oneside,onecolumn,final,openany]{report}
\usepackage[left=2.7cm,top=2.5cm,right=2.2cm,nohead,nofoot]{geometry}
\usepackage{titlesec}
\usepackage{tocloft}

\renewcommand{\cftaftertoctitle}{\hrulefill}

\begin{document}
\pagenumbering{roman}
\tableofcontents
\clearpage
\listoffigures
\clearpage
\listoftables
\clearpage
\pagenumbering{arabic}

\chapter{Introduction}
\label{chap:intro}
Lorem 

\section{Lorem ipsum}
\label{sec:intro:lorem}

Pellentesque

\subsection{Ipsum}
\label{sec:intro:ipsum}

Etiam

Result:

Result

Best Answer

Here's one possible option: the titlesec package was used to format the title for unnumbered sections; the tocloft package was used to format the section entries in the ToC (only change was to typeset chapter entries in \normalfont):

\documentclass{report}
\usepackage{titlesec}
\usepackage[titles]{tocloft}

\renewcommand\cftchapfont{\normalfont}
\renewcommand\cftchappagefont{\normalfont}

\AtBeginDocument{\renewcommand\contentsname{Table of Contents}}

\titleformat{\chapter}[display]
{}{\hfill\rule{.7\textwidth}{3pt}}{0pt}
{\hspace*{.3\textwidth}\huge\bfseries}[\addvspace{-1pt}]
\titleformat{name=\chapter,numberless}[display]
{}{\hfill\rule{.7\textwidth}{3pt}}{0pt}
{\hspace*{.3\textwidth}\huge\bfseries}[\addvspace{-1pt}]

\begin{document}

\tableofcontents
\clearpage

\chapter{Test Chapter}
\section{Test Subsection}

\end{document}

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Since the OP didn't provide any information regarding the formatting for titles of numbered chapters, my example code included a provisional definition in this case.

As a side note, I used that you need roman numbering for the frontmatter part of your document and then arabic numbering in the mainmatter part: this suggests that switching to the book document class might be a sensible choice, since now you can use \frontmatter, \mainmatter, and \backmatter which will give you some automatic formatting for page numbering (amongst other things); I also used the tocbibind package to easily include into the ToC entries for the LoF and LoT :

\documentclass{book}
\usepackage[nottoc]{tocbibind}
\usepackage{titlesec}
\usepackage[titles]{tocloft}

\renewcommand\cftchapfont{\normalfont}
\renewcommand\cftchappagefont{\normalfont}

\AtBeginDocument{\renewcommand\contentsname{Table of Contents}}

\titleformat{\chapter}[display]
{}{\hfill\rule{.7\textwidth}{3pt}}{0pt}
{\hspace*{.3\textwidth}\huge\bfseries}[\addvspace{-1pt}]
\titleformat{name=\chapter,numberless}[display]
{}{\hfill\rule{.7\textwidth}{3pt}}{0pt}
{\hspace*{.3\textwidth}\huge\bfseries}[\addvspace{-1pt}]

\begin{document}

\frontmatter
\tableofcontents
\listoftables
\listoffigures

\mainmatter
\chapter{Test Chapter}
\section{Test Subsection}

\end{document}

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[Tex/LaTex] Custom table of contents style in ConTeXt

Here is my solution to tackle the last of your three points. Actually it incorporates all three points at the same time. Here we go:

First we define a new list alternative. That's an abstract and very flexible way to set up the layout of lists (section heads use a similar mechanism BTW). I call it dotfix:

\unprotect
\definelistalternative
  [dotfix]
  [distance=0pt,
   width=2em,
   stretch=10em,
   filler=\hskip.5em\gleaders\hbox to .5em{\hss.\hss}\hfill\relax,
   renderingsetup=\??listrenderings:abc]
 \protect

The width setting adjusts the distance between the dots and the page number, this is what you're after. Now you can use the new created style, instead of the default one:

\setupcombinedlist
  [section]
  [alternative=dotfix]

The rest is more or less copied from your example.

\setuplist[chapter]
  [alternative=b,
   style=sansbold,
   before={\blank[4*big]}]

\setuplist
  [section]
  [width=2.2em]

\setupwhitespace
  [medium]

\startsectionblockenvironment[frontpart]
  \setupinterlinespace [line=1.5ex]
\stopsectionblockenvironment

\starttext

  \startfrontmatter
    \completecontent
    \startchapter [title=Bla]
    \stopchapter
  \stopfrontmatter

\startbodymatter
    \dorecurse{3}{
      \startchapter [title=Foo]
        \startsection [title=Bar]
        \stopsection
        \startsection [title=Another section]
        \stopsection
      \stopchapter}
    \setcounter [userpage] [1234]
  \stopbodymatter

  \startbackmatter
    \startchapter [title=Bibliography]
    \stopchapter
  \stopbackmatter

\stoptext

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[Tex/LaTex] Table of Contents with custom section titles

Something like this, perhaps:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[explicit]{titlesec}
\usepackage{titletoc}
\renewcommand*\thesection{\Alph{section}}
\newcommand*\Sectionname{Section}

\titleformat{\section}{\normalfont\normalsize}{\Sectionname\ \thesection.\quad}{0pt}{#1}
\titlecontents*{section}[0pt]{\normalfont\normalsize}{\Sectionname\ \thecontentslabel.\quad}{}{}


\begin{document}
    \tableofcontents
    \section{Intro}
        123
\end{document}

sections in ToC

EDIT

If you would like the ToC entry to be upper case, you could use

\titlecontents*{section}[0pt]{\normalfont\normalsize}{\MakeUppercase{\Sectionname} \thecontentslabel.\quad\uppercase}{}{}

This makes both the section name and the section title upper case. If you just want one or the other, change that part back to the original code above.

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[Tex/LaTex] Custom table of contents style in ConTeXt

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EDIT

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