[Tex/LaTex] Table of contents — changing headings

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I use \tableofcontents to generate a ToC of a book. It uses Roman numerals I, II, III for parts, and Arabic numerals 1, 2, 3 for chapters. I would like it to say "Part I" rather than "I", and "Chapter 23" rather than "23". How can I change this consistently throughout the document?

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You can use the tocloft package. A little example (feel free to adapt it according to your needs):

\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{tocloft}
    \newlength\mylenprt
    \newlength\mylenchp
    \newlength\mylenapp

    \renewcommand\cftpartpresnum{\partname~}
    \renewcommand\cftchappresnum{\chaptername~}
    \renewcommand\cftchapaftersnum{.}

    \settowidth\mylenprt{\cftpartfont\cftpartpresnum\cftpartaftersnum}
    \settowidth\mylenchp{\cftchapfont\cftchappresnum\cftchapaftersnum}
    \settowidth\mylenapp{\cftchapfont\appendixname~\cftchapaftersnum}
    \addtolength\mylenprt{\cftpartnumwidth}
    \addtolength\mylenchp{\cftchapnumwidth}
    \addtolength\mylenapp{\cftchapnumwidth}

    \setlength\cftpartnumwidth{\mylenprt}
    \setlength\cftchapnumwidth{\mylenchp}

\begin{document}
    \tableofcontents
    \mainmatter

    \part{First Part}
    \chapter{First Chapter}

    \appendix
    \addtocontents{toc}{% NB!!! must be inside the first \include
        \protect\renewcommand\protect\cftchappresnum{\appendixname~}%
        \protect\setlength{\cftchapnumwidth}{\mylenapp}}%

    \chapter{First Appendix}

\end{document}

EDIT: changed the "manual" names "Part" and "Chapter" to \partname and "\chaptername".

EDIT: changed to properly handle appendixes

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There are a couple of problems here:

You have the wrong hierarchy for sectioning commands. Sections are inside chapters, not parts. Parts are intended to contain a number of chapters, not a number of sections. Use \chapter instead of \part and a lot of your problems with disappear.
You shouldn't be using \part with the base LaTeX article class. If you want to stick with the base LaTeX document classes, use report rather than article if the document truly does contain parts. You can use the report class for a document that does not contain parts (highest entity is a \chapter).

[Tex/LaTex] Changing numbering of chapters, sections and subsections in table of contents

You can redefine the commands \thechapter, \thesection, \thesubsection which control the representation of the counters for chapters, sections, and subsections. The tocloft package can be then used to add the dots:

\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{tocloft}

\renewcommand\cftchapaftersnum{.}
\renewcommand\cftsecaftersnum{.}

\renewcommand\thechapter{\Roman{chapter}}
\renewcommand\thesection{\arabic{section}}
\renewcommand\thesubsection{(\alph{subsection})}

\begin{document}

\tableofcontents

\chapter{Test Chapter One}
\section{Test Section One}
\section{Test Section One}
\subsection{Test Subsection A}
\subsection{Test Subsection B}

\end{document}

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Some other adjustments might be necessary, to prevent the chapter number from overlapping the title, and perhaps reducing the space between the section number and their titles; those adjustments can be something like:

\renewcommand\cftchapnumwidth{2.8em}
\renewcommand\cftsecnumwidth{2em}
\renewcommand\cftsecindent{3em}
\renewcommand\cftsubsecindent{5em}

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