I am writing my dissertation and I have to follow certain graduate school guidelines to submit my dissertation successfully. One rule that the graduate school has is that all margins on each page should be the fixed 1" value. Currently, different sections of my dissertation follow this rule except for the List of Figures page. Is there a way that I can fix the margins on this page WITHOUT affecting margins of other pages?
[Tex/LaTex] List of Figures page Margins
marginstable of contents
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The second code you mentioned should work, as egreg already commented. However, you could write the \addcontentsline command into the .lof file, before figures are created, so it's executed at the beginning of the beginning of the list of figures page:
\addtocontents{lof}{\protect\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{List of Figures}}
You need to use \protect before \addcontentsline to prevent the expansion of that macro when it's written to the .lof file.
Another approach would be using the tocbibind package instead of adding those entries manually. tocbibind automatically adds the bibliography and/or the index and/or the contents, list of figures, list of tables etc. to the table of contents. The package provides options for switching off any of these inclusions.
The space on the left is called indent you can change it with cfttabindent{<value>} for tables and \cftfigindent{<value>} for figures like
\setlength{\cfttabindent}{1.25in}
\setlength{\cftfigindent}{1.25in}
Here are the default values (screen shot from tocloft manual)
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{showframe} %% for demo only
\usepackage{tocloft}
\setlength{\cfttabindent}{1.25in} %% adjust as you like
\setlength{\cftfigindent}{1.25in} %% adjust as you like
\begin{document}
\listoftables
\listoffigures
\chapter{some chapter}
\section{some section}
\begin{figure}
\caption{Some figure}
\end{figure}
\begin{table}
\caption{some table}
\end{table}
\end{document}
For margins are violated bit, you have to provide the text. However, you may try adding \usepackage{microtype} to your preamble. In most of the cases this works well.
Best Answer
Seems I found a solution. For fixing the left margin do this:
search for:
\newcommand*\l@figure{\@dottedtocline{1}{1.5em}{2.3em}}
in the style file. The length 1.5em is the space from the left margin to every line in the list of figures, whereas 2.3em is the space reserved for the number of every figure. You can read the following too: http://www.latex-community.org/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=817