table of contents
I'm new to latex, I'm thankful if someone can give me an example script to customize TOC that looks like
Chapter 1.XXXXXX (1-15)
1.1 Introduction 1.2 xxxxxxxx 1.3 xxxxxxxxxx 1.4 xxxxxxx ……………
Chapter 2.xxxxxxx
2.1 xxxxx …… (16-30)
because the (default) TOC appears to be very large for my book, since it arranges the section name row-by-row.
Here's one possible solution using titletoc for both the main and the partial ToCs; the titlesec package was also used so that \chapter will start and print its partial ToC automatically:
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{titlesec}
\usepackage{titletoc}
\newcommand\partialtocname{\contentsname}
\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
\titleformat{\chapter}[display]
{\normalfont\huge\bfseries}{\chaptertitlename\ \thechapter}{20pt}{\Huge}
[\vspace*{2pc}\titlerule\vspace*{1pc}%
\startcontents\vbox{\Large\partialtocname}\vskip1ex
\printcontents{l}{1}{\setcounter{tocdepth}{1}}\vspace*{1pc}\titlerule]
\titlecontents*{lsection}[0pt]
{\small\normalfont}{\thecontentslabel\space}{}
{,~\itshape\thecontentspage}[\space\textbullet\space][.]
\titlecontents*{lsubsection}[0pt]{}{}{}{}
\chapter{Chapter One}
\section{Section One One}
\subsection{Subsection One One One}
\subsection{Subsection One One Two}
\section{Section One Two}
\subsection{Subsection One Two One}
\subsection{Subsection One Two Two}
\section{Section One Three}
\subsection{Subsection One Three One}
\subsection{Subsection One Three Two}
\chapter{Chapter Two}
\section{Section Two One}
\subsection{Subsection TwoOne One}
\subsection{Subsection Two One Two}
\section{Section Two Two}
\subsection{Subsection Two Two One}
\subsection{Subsection Two Two Two}
\end{document}
The main ToC:
The partial ToCs:
and
Of course, your thesis will have some chapters that won't require a partial ToC such as those of the front and backmatter sections (Acknowledgements, Preface, Main ToC, possibly Appendices and the Bibliography). I did a improvement to my initial code defining a boolean to let you easily activate and deactivate the partial ToCs; initially the boolean is set to false, so the frontmatter chapters won't have partial ToCs; once you begin the mainmatter (in fact, whenever you want to start using partal ToCs) all you have to do is to set the boolean to true using \chapterwithtoctrue. For the backmatter (or, in general, to deactivate the partial ToCs) all you have to do is to set the boolean to false using \chapterwithtocfalse; a complete example:
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{titlesec}
\usepackage{titletoc}
% The name to be used as title for the partialToCs
% initially set to be equal to \contentsname
\newcommand\partialtocname{\contentsname}
% depending on this boolean, \chapter will create or not a partial ToC
\newif\ifchapterwithtoc
\chapterwithtocfalse
\titleformat{\chapter}[display]
{\normalfont\huge\bfseries}{\chaptertitlename\ \thechapter}{20pt}{\Huge}
[\ifchapterwithtoc
\vspace*{2pc}\titlerule\vspace*{1pc}%
\startcontents\vbox{\Large\partialtocname}\vskip1ex
\printcontents{l}{1}{\setcounter{tocdepth}{1}}\vspace*{1pc}\titlerule%
\else\fi%
]
\titlecontents*{lsection}[0pt]
{\small\normalfont}{\thecontentslabel\space}{}
{,~\itshape\thecontentspage}[\space\textbullet\space][.]
\titlecontents*{lsubsection}[0pt]{}{}{}{}
\begin{document}
\frontmatter
\chapter*{Acknowledgements}
\chapter*{Preface}
\tableofcontents
\mainmatter
\chapterwithtoctrue
\chapter{Chapter One}
\section{Section One One}
\subsection{Subsection One One One}
\subsection{Subsection One One Two}
\section{Section One Two}
\subsection{Subsection One Two One}
\subsection{Subsection One Two Two}
\section{Section One Three}
\subsection{Subsection One Three One}
\subsection{Subsection One Three Two}
\chapter{Chapter Two}
\section{Section Two One}
\subsection{Subsection TwoOne One}
\subsection{Subsection Two One Two}
\section{Section Two Two}
\subsection{Subsection Two Two One}
\subsection{Subsection Two Two Two}
\backmatter
\chapterwithtocfalse
\chapter{Appenix One}
\chapter{Appenix Two}
\end{document}
This can be improved even more by appropriately patching (wuth the help of the etoolbox package, for example) \frontmatter, \mainmatter and \backmatter.
Here's one possibility: I suppressed the undesired indentation for the entries, and I defined a command \atotoc with a mandatory argument (the name of the author) to add the author information:
\documentclass{amsbook}
\AtBeginDocument{%
\makeatletter
\expandafter\renewcommand\csname r@tocindent0\endcsname{0pt}
\makeatother
}
\newcommand\atotoc[1]{\addtocontents{toc}{#1\par}}
\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
\chapter*{Test Chapter One}
\atotoc{Author One}
\chapter*{Test Chapter Two with a Long Title that will Span Two Lines in the Table of Contents}
\atotoc{Author Two}
\end{document}
An image of the resulting ToC:
If dots between text and page number are required for the entries, some additional work needs to be done:
\documentclass{amsbook}
\makeatletter
\newcommand\@dotsep{4.5}
\def\@tocline#1#2#3#4#5#6#7{\relax
\ifnum #1>\c@tocdepth % then omit
\else
\par \addpenalty\@secpenalty\addvspace{#2}%
\begingroup \hyphenpenalty\@M
\@ifempty{#4}{%
\@tempdima\csname r@tocindent\number#1\endcsname\relax
}{%
\@tempdima#4\relax
}%
\parindent\z@ \leftskip#3\relax \advance\leftskip\@tempdima\relax
\rightskip\@pnumwidth plus1em \parfillskip-\@pnumwidth
#5\leavevmode\hskip-\@tempdima{#6}\nobreak
\leaders\hbox{$\m@th\mkern \@dotsep mu\hbox{.}\mkern \@dotsep mu$}\hfill
\nobreak
\hbox to\@pnumwidth{\@tocpagenum{#7}}\par
\nobreak
\endgroup
\fi}
\makeatother
\AtBeginDocument{%
\makeatletter
\expandafter\renewcommand\csname r@tocindent0\endcsname{0pt}
\makeatother
}
\newcommand\atotoc[1]{\addtocontents{toc}{#1\par}}
\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
\chapter*{Test Chapter One}
\atotoc{Author One}
\chapter*{Test Chapter Two with a Long Title that will Span Two Lines in the Table of Contents}
\atotoc{Author Two}
\end{document}
Best Answer
An easy way to save space would be typesetting the table of contents in two or more columns. I've seen that some times, but I don't remember any book lining up several section titles in a row.
If you choose to typeset in two or more columns, that can be done easily using the
multitocpackage. You may use even more columns than the default two. Have a look at the documentation for an example.Simply adding
would already show the table of contents in two columns. And, for example, add
if you wish to have three columns.