chaptersspacingtable of contentstocloft
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I am using the tocloft package for my thesis and my university requires doublespacing before and after the chapter titles in the ToC, but only if the chapter has sections.
I am thinking that I will require some way to detect if the chapter has sections, or add a newline before the first section in each chapter. Can somebody suggest a way to achieve this?
toclofts \cftXaftersnumb macro family doesn't work for X = part in the book class. Quoting from the tocloft manual, p. 9:
In the standard classes the ToC entry for a
\partis just typeset as the number and title, followed by the page number, with the\cftpartpresnummacro being called before typesetting the number and title. When a standard class is used the\cftpartaftersnumand\cftpartaftersnumbmacros have no effect, but they may do something if a non-standard class is used.
As has been mentioned in the comments, you really shouldn't use titlesec and tocloft together. The tocloft package is designed to work with the standard classes, but not with titles modified by titlesec. Since you are using titlesec to format the titles, you should use the accompanying titletoc package (by the same author) to format the TOCs.
Here's a sample document that does roughly what you want, and should be enough for you to modify as you need. You didn't specify any vertical spacing and I didn't dig through your code so I just kept the standard report class values. You also didn't specify if any of the headings were supposed to be bold, but you can add \bfseries as needed to the titling definitions.
Since you requested exactly 11.2 and 10.2 sizes I created two commands for those sizes, but since the main fontsize is not either of these, I don't quite know how they relate to the 12pt document class option.
\documentclass[12pt]{report}
\usepackage{kantlipsum}
\usepackage[explicit]{titlesec}
\usepackage{titletoc}
\newcommand{\elevenpt}{\fontsize{11.2}{12}\selectfont}
\newcommand{\tenpt}{\fontsize{10.2}{11}\selectfont}
\titleformat{\chapter}[block]{\elevenpt\filcenter}{\MakeUppercase\chaptertitlename\ \thechapter}{20pt}{\MakeUppercase{#1}}
\titleformat{\section}[block]{\tenpt\filcenter}{\thesection}{1em}{\MakeUppercase{#1}}
\titleformat{\subsection}[block]{\tenpt\filcenter}{\thesubsection}{1em}{#1}
\titleformat{\subsubsection}[hang]{\tenpt\itshape}{\thesubsubsection}{1em}{#1}
\titlespacing*{\chapter}{0pt}{50pt}{40pt}
\titlespacing*{\section}{0pt}{3.25ex plus 1ex minus .2ex}{1.5ex plus .2ex}
\titlespacing*{\subsection}{0pt}{3.25ex plus 1ex minus .2ex}{1.5ex plus .2ex}
\titlespacing*{\subsubsection}{0pt}{3.25ex plus 1ex minus .2ex}{1.5ex plus .2ex}
\titlecontents{chapter}
[3em]
{}
{\elevenpt\contentslabel{2em}\MakeUppercase}
{\hspace*{-2em}}
{\titlerule*[1pc]{.}\contentspage}
\titlecontents{section}
[5em]
{}
{\tenpt\contentslabel{2.3em}\MakeUppercase}
{\hspace*{-2.3em}}
{\titlerule*[1pc]{.}\contentspage}
\titlecontents{subsection}
[7em]
{}
{\tenpt\contentslabel{2.8em}}
{\hspace*{-2.8em}}
{\titlerule*[1pc]{.}\contentspage}
\titlecontents{subsubsection}
[7em]
{}
{\tenpt\itshape\contentslabel{3.5em}}
{\tenpt\itshape\contentslabel{3.5em}}
{\titlerule*[1pc]{.}\contentspage}
\setcounter{tocdepth}{4}
\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
\listoffigures
\chapter{A chapter level heading}
\kant[1]
\section{A section level heading}
\kant[2]
\subsection{A subsection level heading}
\kant[3]
\subsubsection{A subsubsection level heading}
\kant[4]
\begin{figure}
\caption{A figure}
\end{figure}
\end{document}
Best Answer
If I understood your question, you can use the
etoolboxpackage to hook to the\sectioncommand to add a vertical spacing in the ToC if the section counter is one: