[Tex/LaTex] Reduce space between Table number and title in List of Tables

table of contents

I am currently not using any packages for my table of contents, list of figures/tables and would like to keep it that way. Is it possible to reduce the horizontal space between a table number and title in a list of tables without the need to use tocloft/tocstyle/etc ?

Many thanks in advance!

Kind regards,

Pieter

Best Answer

article.cls has

\newcommand*\l@figure{\@dottedtocline{1}{1.5em}{2.3em}}
\let\l@table\l@figure

You can redefine \l@table in the preamble of your document and change the third argument:

\makeatletter
\renewcommand*\l@table{\@dottedtocline{1}{1.5em}{1.8em}}
\makeatother

For consistency's sake, perhaps you could also redefine \l@figure accordingly:

\makeatletter
\renewcommand*\l@figure{\@dottedtocline{1}{1.5em}{1.8em}}
\renewcommand*\l@table{\@dottedtocline{1}{1.5em}{1.8em}}
\makeatother

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[Tex/LaTex] Capitalize ‘List of Tables’ and ‘List of Figures’ in Table of Contents

By default there is a difference in what is passed as a contents-related entry and what is set within the document. Since you have little control over this when setting \listoffigures and \listoftables, the example below intervenes by passing the LoF/LoT entries using \MakeUppercase:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{tocbibind}

\let\oldaddcontentsline\addcontentsline
\newcommand{\ADDCONTENTSLINE}[3]{%
  \oldaddcontentsline{#1}{#2}{\MakeUppercase{#3}}%
}
\newcommand{\CAPinToC}{\let\addcontentsline\ADDCONTENTSLINE}
\newcommand{\noCAPinToC}{\let\addcontentsline\oldaddcontentsline}

\begin{document}

\tableofcontents

\CAPinToC% All entries in ToC will be CAPITALIZED from here on
\listoftables

\listoffigures

\noCAPinToC% Rever to original \addcontentsline formatting
\section{A section}

\begin{figure}\caption{A figure}\end{figure}
\begin{table}\caption{A table}\end{table}

\end{document}

You can activate this type of ToC-related formatting using \CAPinToC (or revert back to the original definition using \noCAPinToC).

[Tex/LaTex] Make decrease the space between title of list of figures and list of tables on the same page

Here is a simple fix. The basic idea is to change the vertical space that is added at the end of \@makechapterhead and \@makeschapterhead locally for the list of figures and tables. I therefore made the following changes:

Before the definition of \@makechapterhead I added a new length for this bottom space and set the default value to 50pt (the value in your example):
```
\newlength{\chapter@bottom@space}
\setlength{\chapter@bottom@space}{50pt}
```
In the \@make(s)chapterhead macros both last lines
```
\vspace{50pt}%
```
were replaced by
```
\vspace{\chapter@bottom@space}%
```

In the "critical part" the new length is redefined locally to a smaller value. Adjust this value to an even smaller value if necessary:

\thispagestyle{plain}
\begingroup
  \makeatletter
  \setlength{\chapter@bottom@space}{15pt}
  \makeatother
  \listoffigures
  \let\clearpage\relax
  \listoftables
\endgroup
\thispagestyle{plain}

Another minor fix was to add a \strut inside of the \@make(s)chapterhead macros at the place where the parameter #1 is used. This is to make chapter titles have an equal bottom space, no matter if the text uses characters with descenders or not (otherwise the "g" in "Figures" would produce a slightly larger vertical space than in the list of tables).
```
\hbox{\hspace*{20pt}\parbox{...}{\Huge\bfseries\strut #1}}
```
EDIT: I also did a bit of code refactoring for the \@make(s)chapterhead macros. As both macros used the almost identical code, I merged both into a single one. There were only two places in which the macros differed:
```
% \scshape\strut\makebox[0pt]{\hspace{0pt plus 1 fill minus 1 fill}
             \@chapapp
    \phantom{\@chapapp}
%     \hspace{0pt plus 1 fill minus 1 fill}} \\
```
and
```
% \hbox{\color{white}\LARGE\bfseries
%       \hspace{\dimexpr 1mm+3pt}%
                  \thechapter
         \phantom{\thechapter}%
%       \hspace{\dimexpr 1mm+3pt}%
%      }
```
As you can see, the only difference was the addition of \phantom in \@makeschapterhead. The new macro \@makechapterhead@base uses #1 now as a placeholder for a macro to be used in \phantom's place, while #2 became the new chapter title text. The original macros can then be easily defined by
```
\def\@makechapterhead{\@makechapterhead@base\@firstofone}
\def\@makeschapterhead{\@makechapterhead@base\phantom}
```

I removed several package imports and definitions from your code to make it minimal, so you should apply the above-mentioned patches separately to your code.

\documentclass[11pt,french,oneside]{report}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{indentfirst}
\usepackage{lastpage}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\usepackage{vmargin}
\usepackage{lipsum}

\usepackage[hyperfootnotes=false,colorlinks,allcolors=blue,breaklinks]{hyperref}
\usepackage{setspace}
\usepackage{caption}

\usepackage[table,svgnames,dvipsnames]{xcolor}
\usepackage{calc}
\usepackage{geometry}

\setcounter{tocdepth}{3}
\setcounter{secnumdepth}{3}

\usepackage[skip=0.5\baselineskip]{caption}

\makeatletter
\newlength{\chapter@number@width}
\newlength{\chapter@bottom@space}
\setlength{\chapter@bottom@space}{50pt}

\def\@makechapterhead{\@makechapterhead@base\@firstofone}
\def\@makeschapterhead{\@makechapterhead@base\phantom}
\def\@makechapterhead@base#1#2{%
  {\normalfont
  \setlength{\parindent}{0pt}%
  \vspace*{10pt}%
  \settowidth{\chapter@number@width}{%
    \hbox{\color{white}\LARGE\bfseries
          \hspace{\dimexpr 1mm+3pt}%
          \thechapter
          \hspace{\dimexpr 1mm+3pt}%
    }}
  \hbox{%
    \vtop{%
      \hsize=\dimexpr\chapter@number@width+\tabcolsep+2\fboxrule+\tabcolsep
      \begin{tabular}[t]{@{}c}
        \scshape\strut\makebox[0pt]{\hspace{0pt plus 1 fill minus 1 fill}#1{\@chapapp}\hspace{0pt plus 1 fill minus 1 fill}} \\
        \fboxsep=0pt
        \colorbox{black}{\vbox{%
           \hbox{\vbox to \dimexpr 1mm+3pt{}}
           \hbox{\color{white}\LARGE\bfseries
                 \hspace{\dimexpr 1mm+3pt}%
                 #1{\thechapter}%
                 \hspace{\dimexpr 1mm+3pt}%
                }
           \hrule height 0.4pt depth 0pt width 0pt
           \hbox{\vbox to 6pt{}}
           \hbox{\parbox{0pt}{\Huge\bfseries\vphantom{E}}}
           }}%
      \end{tabular}%
      }%
    \vtop{%
      \advance\hsize by -\dimexpr\chapter@number@width+2\fboxrule+\tabcolsep
      \hspace*{-0.5cm}\begin{tabular}[t]{c}
        \scshape\strut\vphantom{\@chapapp} \\
        \fboxsep=0pt
        \colorbox{white}{\vbox{%
           \hbox{\vbox to \dimexpr 1mm+3pt{}}
           \hbox{\LARGE\bfseries
                 \hspace{\dimexpr 1mm+3pt}%
                 \phantom{\thechapter}
                 \hspace{\dimexpr 1mm+3pt}%
                }
           \hrule height 0.4pt depth 0pt width \hsize
           \hbox{\vbox to 6pt{}}
           \hbox{\hspace*{20pt}\parbox{\dimexpr\textwidth-2mm-6pt-\chapter@number@width-\tabcolsep-2\fboxrule-20pt}{\Huge\bfseries\strut #2}}
           }}%
      \end{tabular}%
      }%
    }%
  \vspace{\chapter@bottom@space}%
  }
}
\makeatother

\setlength\parindent{0pt}

\setmarginsrb{2.3cm}{0.0cm}{2.1cm}{1cm}{1.3cm}{0.5cm}{0.4cm}{1cm}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0.4pt}
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0.4pt}
\chead{\hspace{-0.3cm}\textit{Rapport de stage M2 Astrophysique, Sciences de l\rq Espace, Plan\'etologie \hspace{-0.3cm}}}
\lhead{XXX}
\rhead{YYY}
\lfoot{\textit{lisssold riufi}}
\cfoot{\hspace{1.6cm} \textit{ - Performances}} 
\rfoot{\thepage/\pageref{LastPage}}

\begin{document}

\renewcommand*\listfigurename{Liste des Figures}
\renewcommand*\listtablename{Liste des Tables}

\tableofcontents

%%%%%% CRITICAL PART TO GET list of figures and list of tables %%%%
%%%%%% ON THE SAME PAGE %%%%%
%%%%%% This is HERE where I would like to reduce space between title
%%%%%% list while keeping the special style of titles (like chapters)

\thispagestyle{plain}
\begingroup
  \makeatletter
  \setlength{\chapter@bottom@space}{15pt}
  \makeatother
  \listoffigures
  \let\clearpage\relax
  \listoftables
\endgroup
\thispagestyle{plain}

\chapter*{Introduction}
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Introduction}

\lipsum[1]

\def\fig{
    \begin{figure}
    Figure
    \caption{This is HERE where I would like to reduce space between title
        list while keeping the special style of titles (like chapters)}
    \end{figure}
}
\fig\fig\fig\fig\fig\fig\fig\fig\fig

\def\tab{
    \begin{table}
    Figure
    \caption{This is HERE where I would like to reduce space between title
        list while keeping the special style of titles (like chapters)}
    \end{table}
}
\tab\tab\tab\tab\tab\tab\tab\tab\tab

\end{document}

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