[Tex/LaTex] Problems Customizing TOC in amsbook style

amsbooktable of contents

I am attempting to create a table of contents (in the amsbook document class) with a specific format; however, after several attempts I can't seem to get it to work out. The document will include several articles written by different authors (much like a typical Proceedings of Such-and-Such Conference book) The format I would like to see is:

Chapter Title A ……………………………………………. Page #
Author
Long Chapter Title that wraps around
to the next line ……………………………………………. Page #
Author

The "author " lines should be indented some – I don't know how to indent on this forum..

etc. The important points are that I need \chapter*{}, so that there are no chapter numbers, the page numbers should be aligned with each chapter title, with no additional page number on the "author" line, and the wrapped text for the long chapter title lines up with the beginning of title on the above line (every attempt I've made thus far indents the wrapped text, as if there are chapter numbers preceeding it- I dont want that).

Sorry if this is trivially easy, but I'm not terribly experienced with customizing the table of contents, and I can't seem to get it to work at all.

Best Answer

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:

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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}

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Here's a possible solution.

I used the titletoc and tocloft packages to customize the ToC, LoF and LoT titles and entries as required. Firther customization might be required for the titles, but this might depend on the general layout for the chapter titles and this information was not provided in the question.
The tocbibind packge was used to automatically include the LoF and the LoT in the table of contents.
The afterpage package can be used to produce the corresponding headings in every page of the ToC, the LoF and the LoT; since these lists typically span few pages, one can use
```
\addtocontents{toc}{\protect\afterpage{tocheading}}
\addtocontents{lof}{\protect\afterpage{lofheading}}
\addtocontents{lot}{\protect\afterpage{lotheading}}
```
respectively, in the appropriate locations in the body of the document.
I used the book document class (instead of using report) to profit from the \frontmatter, \mainmatter (and \backmatter) commands.

The code:

\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{titletoc}
\usepackage{tocloft}
\usepackage[nottoc]{tocbibind}
\usepackage{afterpage}

% Change the name of the ToC
\AtBeginDocument{%
\renewcommand\contentsname{Table of Contents}}

% Headings for every page of ToC, LoF and Lot
\newcommand\tocheading{\par\bigskip\MakeUppercase{\chaptername}\hfill Page\par}
\newcommand\lofheading{\par\bigskip\figurename\hfill Page\par}
\newcommand\lotheading{\par\bigskip\MakeUppercase{\tablename}\hfill Page\par}

% Centering titles for the ToC, Lof and Lot
\renewcommand{\cfttoctitlefont}{\hfill\normalfont\MakeUppercase}
\renewcommand{\cftaftertoctitle}{\hfill}
\renewcommand{\cftloftitlefont}{\hfill\normalfont\MakeUppercase}
\renewcommand{\cftafterloftitle}{\hfill}
\renewcommand{\cftlottitlefont}{\hfill\normalfont\MakeUppercase}
\renewcommand{\cftafterlottitle}{\hfill}

% Chapter entries formatting for frontmatter chapters
\newcommand\frontmatterchaptoc{%
\titlecontents{chapter}
  [1.5em]{\addvspace{\baselineskip}}
  {\contentslabel{1.5em}\MakeUppercase}
  {\hspace*{-1.5em}\MakeUppercase}
  {\titlerule*[1pc]{.}\contentspage}
}

% Chapter entries formatting for mainmatter chapters
\newcommand\mainmatterchaptoc{%
\titlecontents{chapter}
  [5em]{\addvspace{\baselineskip}}
  {\contentslabel{3em}\hspace*{-1em}\MakeUppercase}
  {\MakeUppercase}
  {\titlerule*[1pc]{.}\contentspage}
}

% Section, subsection, table and figure entries formatting
\titlecontents{section}
  [7em]{}{\hspace{-1em}}{}{\titlerule*[1pc]{.}\contentspage}
\titlecontents{subsection}
  [7.5em]{}{\hspace{-1em}}{}{\titlerule*[1pc]{.}\contentspage}
\titlecontents{figure}
  [5em]{}
  {\contentslabel{3em}\hspace*{-1em}}{}
  {\titlerule*[1pc]{.}\contentspage}
\titlecontents{table}
  [5em]{}
  {\contentslabel{3em}\hspace*{-1em}}{}
  {\titlerule*[1pc]{.}\contentspage}

\begin{document}

\frontmatter
\frontmatterchaptoc % activation of chapter entries formatting in the frontmatter

\chapter{Acknowledgements}

\cleardoublepage
\tableofcontents
\cleardoublepage
\addtocontents{lof}{\lofheading}% add heading to the first page in LoF
\listoffigures
\cleardoublepage
\addtocontents{lot}{\lotheading}% add heading to the first page in LoT
\listoftables
\cleardoublepage

\mainmatter
\addtocontents{toc}{\tocheading}% add heading to the first page in ToC, after frontmatter entries

\mainmatterchaptoc% activation of chapter entries formatting in the mainmatter

\chapter{Introduction}
\section{Section One One}
\begin{figure}
\centering
A
\caption{Test figure one}
\label{fig:test}
\end{figure}
\chapter{Policy divergence and traditional research}
\section{Section Two One}
\begin{figure}
\centering
A
\caption{William Adolphe Bouguereau, \emph{Youth of Bacchus}  (initial sketch), 1884}
\label{fig:wab}
\end{figure}
\subsection{Section Two One One}

\end{document}

An image of the obtained ToC:

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an Image of the obtained LoF:

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