[Tex/LaTex] How to remove vertical spacing of ToC title without tocloft

table of contents

I'm trying to control the vertical spacing of my table contents title, however I'm getting into overflow issues because I'm loading both tocloft and titletoc. I found a similar case, but just removing tocloft just won't do as I need to remove the spacing between the title and the entries.

custom TOC text overflow

Here's a MWE:

\documentclass[12pt]{report}

    \usepackage{tabto}

    \usepackage{tocloft}
        \setlength\cftaftertoctitleskip{0pt}

    \usepackage{titletoc}
        \titlecontents{chapter}% <section-type>
            [0pt]% <left>
            {\vspace{1em}}% <above-code>
            {\MakeUppercase \chaptername\ \thecontentslabel \tabto{1.25in} \MakeUppercase}% <numbered-entry-format>
            {}% <numberless-entry-format>
            {\titlerule*[5pt]{.}\contentspage}% <filler-page-format>

        \titlecontents{section}% <section-type>
            [0pt]% <left>
            {\vspace{0.5em}}% <above-code>
            {\tabto{0.5in} \thecontentslabel \tabto{1.25in}}% <numbered-entry-format>
            {}% <numberless-entry-format>
            {\titlerule*[5pt]{.}\contentspage}% <filler-page-format>

        \titlecontents{subsection}% <section-type>
            [0pt]% <left>
            {}% <above-code>
            {\tabto{1.25in} \thecontentslabel \tabto{2.0in}}% <numbered-entry-format>
            {}% <numberless-entry-format>
            {\titlerule*[5pt]{.}\contentspage}% <filler-page-format>

\begin{document}
    \tableofcontents

    \chapter{A Chapter}
        \section{A Section}
            \subsection{A Sub-Section}
            \subsection{A Sub-Section}
            \subsection{A Sub-Section}
    \chapter{A Chapter}
        \section{A Section}
            \subsection{A Sub-Section}
            \subsection{A Sub-Section}
            \subsection{A Sub-Section}
    \chapter{A Chapter}
        \section{A Section}
            \subsection{A Sub-Section}
            \subsection{A Sub-Section}
            \subsection{A Sub-Section}
    \chapter{A Chapter}
        \section{A Section}
            \subsection{A Sub-Section}
            \subsection{A Sub-Section}
            \subsection{A Sub-Section}
    \chapter{A Chapter}
        \section{A Section}
            \subsection{A Sub-Section}
    \chapter{A Chapter}
        \section{A Section}
            \subsection{A Sub-Section}
    \chapter{A Chapter}
        \section{A Section}
            \subsection{A Sub-Section}
    \chapter{A Chapter}
        \section{A Section}
            \subsection{A Sub-Section}
    \chapter{A Chapter}
        \section{A Section}
            \subsection{A Sub-Section}
    \chapter{A Chapter}
        \section{A Section}
            \subsection{A Sub-Section}
    \chapter{A Chapter}
        \section{A Section}
            \subsection{A Sub-Section}
\end{document}

Best Answer

Instead of using tocloft, you can patch the \tableofcontents command to insert some negative vertical spacing after the heading as follows:

\usepackage{etoolbox}
\patchcmd{\tableofcontents}{\@starttoc}{\vspace{-1cm}\@starttoc}{}{}

This reduces the space by 1cm. The removal of the tocloft package, means that the overflow problem disappears.

\documentclass[12pt]{report}

    \usepackage{tabto}

    \usepackage{titletoc}
        \titlecontents{chapter}% <section-type>
            [0pt]% <left>
            {\vspace{1em}}% <above-code>
            {\MakeUppercase \chaptername\ \thecontentslabel \tabto{1.25in} \MakeUppercase}% <numbered-entry-format>
            {}% <numberless-entry-format>
            {\titlerule*[5pt]{.}\contentspage}% <filler-page-format>

        \titlecontents{section}% <section-type>
            [0pt]% <left>
            {\vspace{0.5em}}% <above-code>
            {\tabto{0.5in} \thecontentslabel \tabto{1.25in}}% <numbered-entry-format>
            {}% <numberless-entry-format>
            {\titlerule*[5pt]{.}\contentspage}% <filler-page-format>

        \titlecontents{subsection}% <section-type>
            [0pt]% <left>
            {}% <above-code>
            {\tabto{1.25in} \thecontentslabel \tabto{2.0in}}% <numbered-entry-format>
            {}% <numberless-entry-format>
            {\titlerule*[5pt]{.}\contentspage}% <filler-page-format>

\usepackage{etoolbox}
\patchcmd{\tableofcontents}{\@starttoc}{\vspace{-1cm}\@starttoc}{}{}

\begin{document}


    \tableofcontents

    \chapter{A Chapter}
        \section{A Section}
            \subsection{A Sub-Section}
            \subsection{A Sub-Section}
            \subsection{A Sub-Section}
    \chapter{A Chapter}
        \section{A Section}
            \subsection{A Sub-Section}
            \subsection{A Sub-Section}
            \subsection{A Sub-Section}
    \chapter{A Chapter}
        \section{A Section}
            \subsection{A Sub-Section}
            \subsection{A Sub-Section}
            \subsection{A Sub-Section}
    \chapter{A Chapter}
        \section{A Section}
            \subsection{A Sub-Section}
            \subsection{A Sub-Section}
            \subsection{A Sub-Section}
    \chapter{A Chapter}
        \section{A Section}
            \subsection{A Sub-Section}
    \chapter{A Chapter}
        \section{A Section}
            \subsection{A Sub-Section}
    \chapter{A Chapter}
        \section{A Section}
            \subsection{A Sub-Section}
    \chapter{A Chapter}
        \section{A Section}
            \subsection{A Sub-Section}
    \chapter{A Chapter}
        \section{A Section}
            \subsection{A Sub-Section}
    \chapter{A Chapter}
        \section{A Section}
            \subsection{A Sub-Section}
    \chapter{A Chapter}
        \section{A Section}
            \subsection{A Sub-Section}
\end{document}

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[Tex/LaTex] Remove section number ToC entries with tocloft

tocloft inserts \cftsecpresnum before placing the section number, and \cftsecaftersnum after it. These are hooks you can use to tie into and grab the number:

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\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{tocloft}% http://ctan.org/pkg/tocloft
\makeatletter
\renewcommand{\cftsecpresnum}{\begin{lrbox}{\@tempboxa}}
\renewcommand{\cftsecaftersnum}{\end{lrbox}}
\makeatother
\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
\chapter{A chapter}
\section{First section}
\section{Second section}
\section{Last section}
\end{document}

We effective wrap the numbering mechanism of \section within the ToC inside a box \@tempboxa and store it, but never use it again. This gobbles the contents.

Note that this redefinition is global in terms of the section number display. It can be made local if you only want to display specific parts with/without section numbers. It also maintains the numbering width (set by \cftsecnumwidth). If this should be removed, add

\setlength{\cftsecnumwidth}{0pt}

to the document preamble as well.

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Here's a solution that uses the titletoc package; the important part of the code is

% chapter formatting in toc
\titlecontents{chapter}
[0.0cm]             % left margin
{}                  % above code
{%                  % numbered format
{\llap{\thecontentspage\hspace{.5cm}}\thecontentslabel~}%
}%
{}         % unnumbered format
{}         % filler-page-format, e.g dots

screenshot

Here's a complete MWE to play with.

% arara: pdflatex
% arara: pdflatex
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{titlesec}
\usepackage{titletoc}

% chapter formatting in toc
\titlecontents{chapter}
[0.0cm]             % left margin
{}                  % above code
{%                  % numbered format
{\llap{\thecontentspage\hspace{.5cm}}\thecontentslabel~}%
}%
{}         % unnumbered format
{}         % filler-page-format, e.g dots

\begin{document}
\tableofcontents

\chapter{mychapter} 
\section{mysection}
\subsection{mysubsection}
\section{mysection}
\subsection{mysubsection}
\subsection{mysubsection}
\subsection{mysubsection}
\subsection{mysubsection}
\subsection{mysubsection}
\chapter{mychapter} 
\section{mysection}
\subsection{mysubsection}
\section{mysection}
\subsection{mysubsection}
\subsection{mysubsection}
\subsection{mysubsection}
\subsection{mysubsection}
\subsection{mysubsection}
\chapter{mychapter} 
\end{document}

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