[Tex/LaTex] Table of Contents, List of Figures, and List of Tables Positions

spacingtable of contents

How do you move the beginning of the table of contents, list of figures, and list of tables further up the page? The default is to start those sections above a third of the way down the page.

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Using the tocloft package (of course, instead of -2cm you can use the length that best suits your needs):

\documentclass{report}
\usepackage{tocloft}

\renewcommand\cftbeforetoctitleskip{-2cm}
\renewcommand\cftbeforeloftitleskip{-2cm}
\renewcommand\cftbeforelottitleskip{-2cm}

\begin{document}

\tableofcontents
\clearpage
\listoffigures
\clearpage
\listoftables

\end{document}

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[Tex/LaTex] Header with roman and arabic numerals, list of figures integrated into table of contents

Here's some code. Note that I removed all packages that are unnecessary for the example.

\documentclass[12pt,oneside,a4paper]{article}

\usepackage[
 left=40mm,
 top=30mm,
 right=20mm,
 bottom=20mm,
 headsep=12.5mm,
 headheight=14.5pt, %%% 3mm is too small
 heightrounded
]{geometry}

\usepackage{fancyhdr,xpatch}

\pagestyle{fancy}
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0.0pt}
\fancyhf{}
\fancyhead[R]{Title of topic --- \thepage}

\makeatletter
\let\ORI@section\section
\renewcommand{\section}{\@ifstar\s@section\ORI@section}
\newcommand{\s@section}[1]{%
  \ORI@section*{#1}
  \csname phantomsection\endcsname % for hyperref
  \addcontentsline{toc}{section}{#1}
}
\xpatchcmd{\tableofcontents}{\section}{\ORI@section}{}{} % toc not in toc
\makeatother

\begin{document}
\pagenumbering{roman}

\tableofcontents
\clearpage

\listoffigures
\clearpage

\listoftables 
\clearpage

\section*{Section A}

\clearpage
\pagenumbering{arabic}

\section{Section B}

\end{document}

The code redefines \section so that \section* will automatically add it to the table of contents. There's only one catch: \tableofcontents uses \section*, so it has been patched in order to use the original version of the command.

Some points to note about your original code:

\special is not needed, because geometry takes care of it
the headheight you specified is too small
\makebox[0pt][r]{Title of topic} does nothing more than the simple Title of topic, because fancyhdr uses right alignment anyway there; I also added a dash to separate the title from the page number.
\onehalfspacing is countermanded by \setstretch{1.3}; if you can, avoid increasing the leading.

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If you want to reduce the spacing between section titles, add the following line

\xpatchcmd{\l@section}{1.0em}{0.5ex}{}{}

immediately before \makeatother in the given code. Adjust 0.5ex to what suits you. For the image, I added two subsections in order to give the flavor.

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[Tex/LaTex] Add list of figures, tables, etc on different position in table of contents

refcount allows you to extract page references in an expandable way. The following method uses the \label-\ref system to set a \label on the first page of the LoF/LoT and then add the entries to the ToC where they are needed, expanding the page number using \getpagerefnumber:

\documentclass{book}

\usepackage{refcount}

\begin{document}

\frontmatter
\tableofcontents

\clearpage
\label{listoffigures}
\listoffigures

\clearpage
\label{listoftables}
\listoftables

\mainmatter
\chapter{First chapter}
\chapter{Second chapter}
\chapter{Third chapter}

% Insert delayed LoF/LoT
\addtocontents{toc}{\protect\contentsline{chapter}{\listfigurename}{\getpagerefnumber{listoffigures}}}
\addtocontents{toc}{\protect\contentsline{chapter}{\listtablename}{\getpagerefnumber{listoftables}}}
\end{document}

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