[Tex/LaTex] Something’s wrong with tocloft

babelhyphenationtable of contentstocloft

I want the right margin of TOC to be straight. Instead of this Latex violates the bound (Pic. 1). If babel is commented out (with the last \addcontentsline), the result is still buggy (Pic. 2). Apparently, some of the words could be carried over to the next lines even without hyphenation.

Here is the minimal working example.

\documentclass{book}
\usepackage[russian]{babel}
\usepackage[titles]{tocloft}

\renewcommand{\cftchapleader}{\cftdotfill{\cftdotsep}}
\cftsetrmarg{4cm}

\begin{document}
  \tableofcontents

  \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Well it certainly is better if you activate the hyphenation pattern for french. This will "split" the berger. It also helps if you remove the stretchable space in the spacing command inserted  Well it certainly is better if you activate the hyphenation pattern for french. This will "split" the berger. It also helps if you remove the stretchable space in the spacing command inserted }

  \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Blossom blossom blossom blossom blossom blossom test test test blossom blossom blossom blossom blossom blossom blossom blossom blossom blossom blossom blossom blossom blossom blossom blossom blossom blossom blossom blossom}

  \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Bbbbbbb bbbbbbbbbb bbbbbbb bbbbbbbbbb bbbbbb}

  \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Численные исследования разработанных алгоритмов}

\end{document}

Pic. 1

Picture 1 (above).

Pic. 2

Picture 2 (above).

UPDATE.

The proposed solutions partially solved the problem. The remaining problems are shown on the Picture 3. The corresponding code is:

\documentclass{book}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage[titles]{tocloft}

% Compulsory settings
\textwidth=170mm
\cftsetrmarg{6.35cm}

% Adviced (but not working) options
\renewcommand{\cftchapleader}{\penalty5000 \cftdotfill{\cftdotsep}}
\emergencystretch=10em
\sloppy


\begin{document}
  \tableofcontents

  \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{This line just demonstrates the right bound. Well it certainly is better if you activate the hyphenation pattern for french. This will "split" the berger. It also helps if you remove the stretchable space in the spacing command inserted  Well it certainly is better if you activate the hyphenation pattern for french. This will "split" the berger. It also helps if you remove the stretchable space in the spacing command inserted }

  \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Thisline demonstratesdemonstrates thewidthof posbbbbbbbbbbbbbbblegaps. Thisline demonstrates thewidthof possiblegaps.}

  \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Parameter parmeter parameter parammmeter Fibre Channel}

\end{document}

Pic. 3

Picture 3 (above).

Best Answer

Basically I think your requirement is that the leaders are at least \rightskip in length and they never shrink less than that, so allowing the last line to extend.

So you need a modified leaders command that always inserts at least that many dots:

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\documentclass{book}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage[titles]{tocloft}

% Compulsory settings
\textwidth=170mm
\cftsetrmarg{6.35cm}

\makeatletter
\providecommand{\cftdotfillb}[1]{%
  \leaders\hbox{$\m@th\mkern #1 mu\hbox{\cftdot}\mkern #1 mu$}\hskip 1\rightskip plus 1fill}

% Adviced (but not working) options
\renewcommand{\cftchapleader}{\cftdotfillb{\cftdotsep}}

\makeatother

\begin{document}
  \tableofcontents

\sloppy
\emergencystretch3em

  \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{This line just demonstrates the right bound. Well it certainly is better if you activate the hyphenation pattern for french. This will "split" the berger. It also helps if you remove the stretchable space in the spacing command inserted  Well it certainly is better if you activate the hyphenation pattern for french. This will "split" the berger. It also helps if you remove the stretchable space in the spacing command inserted }

  \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Thisline demonstratesdemonstrates thewid\-thof pos\-bbbbb\-bb\-bbbbbbbblegaps. Thisline demonstrates thewidthof possiblegaps.}

  \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Parameter parmeter parameter parammmeter Fibre Channel}

  \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Parameter parmeter  Fibre Channel}

\end{document}

Original answer

I'm not sure it's really babel; I seem not to have the babel cyrilic support installed so couldn't duplicate all your cases but the repeated bbb case can be demonstrated even if babel isn't loaded at all.

The line breaks better for reasons I haven't had time to trace fully if you allow but strongly discourage a break before the leader

\renewcommand{\cftchapleader}{\penalty5000 \cftdotfill{\cftdotsep}}

enter image description here

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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.

[Tex/LaTex] Errors with tocloft

The main problem is the loading order of subfig and tocloft.

subfig defines c@lotdepth by a \@nameuse statement - as such it's already defined at the time when tocloft tries to setup this new counter.

The same is true for c@lofdepth, leading to a similar error.

The other way round, using tocloft first before loading subfig poses no problem.

Another solution is to remove the loading of subfig -- it's apparently not used in the 'MWE'

(I also cleaned up the document, slightly)

\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{book}
\usepackage{anysize}
\usepackage{array}
\usepackage{multirow}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{epstopdf}
\usepackage{natbib}
\usepackage{caption}
\usepackage{hhline}
\usepackage{symlist}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{acronym}
\usepackage{tocloft} 
\usepackage{subfig}

\usepackage{listings}
\usepackage{placeins}
\usepackage{wrapfig}
\usepackage{rotating}
\usepackage[svgnames]{xcolor}
\usepackage{hyperref}

\marginsize{3cm}{3cm}{2cm}{2cm}

% Unused
%\captionsetup[table]{skip=4pt,font=footnotesize} %works with package{caption} to skip the height from the table, and to select 10pt as the text size 
%\captionsetup[figure]{skip=4pt,font=footnotesize} %works with package{caption} to skip the height from the table, and to select 10pt as the text size 

\DeclareCaptionType{equationme}[][List of Equations] %this is a work-around to get a list of equations with page numbers in my contents page, however it adds a caption to my equations (not ideal!!)
\captionsetup[equationme]{skip=4pt,font=footnotesize}

\newlength{\Oldarrayrulewidth}

\newcommand{\Cline}[2]{%
  \noalign{\setlength{\Oldarrayrulewidth}{\arrayrulewidth}}%
  \noalign{\setlength{\arrayrulewidth}{#1}}\cline{#2}%
  \noalign{\setlength{\arrayrulewidth}{\Oldarrayrulewidth}}}

% this is the R bit............
\newcounter{Script}[section]
\newenvironment{Script}[1][]{%
  \refstepcounter{Script}\par\medskip
  \textbf{Script~\theScript. #1} \rmfamily}{\medskip}


\providecommand{\hilight}[1]{%
  #1%
}

\begin{document}

\listofequationme
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{List of Equations}

\begin{equationme}[!ht]
  \caption[Earthquake magnitude affect on landsliding]{Relationship between earthquake magnitude and the potential area affected by landsliding as defined by \hilight{Keefer}, where A' is the potential area affected.}
  \begin{equation}
    \label{eq:EQMagnitudelsArea}
    log_{10} \newsym{Potential area affected}{A'} = \newsym{Earthquake magnitude}{M}-3.46(\pm0.47)
  \end{equation}
\end{equationme}

\end{document}

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