[Tex/LaTex] tocloft removes content title formatting

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I am using code from this answer https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/93792/19817 to make horizontal lines above and under chapter title.

\documentclass{book} 
\usepackage{titlesec}

\titleformat{\chapter}[display]
  {\bfseries\huge}
  {\filleft\Large\chaptertitlename~\thechapter}
  {3ex}
  {\titlerule\vspace{1.5ex}\filright}
  [\vspace{1ex}\titlerule]

\begin{document}

\chapter{Test Numbered Chapter}

\end{document}

However, I wanted to remove space above content title and used code from this answer https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/46863/19817.

\usepackage{tocloft} 
\setlength{\cftbeforetoctitleskip}{-3em}

tocloft does what I want, but it also removes horizontal lines above "content". My question is: how to use tocloft and keep chapter title formating?

Best Answer

To instruct tocloft not to affect the look of the titles of the Table of Contents, the List of Figures, and the List of Tables, load the package with the option titles.

A side effect of using the titles option is that instructions such as

\setlength{\cftbeforetoctitleskip}{-3em}

will have no effect: after all, you're asking the package not to interfere with the look of the headers. Just use the macros of the titlesec package to fine-tune the look of the headers.

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[Tex/LaTex] Formatting new list of definitions with tocloft

The following minimal example works for me in terms of the book document class:

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\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{tocloft}% http://ctan.org/pkg/tocloft
\usepackage{etoolbox}% http://ctan.org/pkg/etoolbox

\newcommand{\listdefinitionname}{My list of definitions}
\newlistof{definition}{def}{\listdefinitionname}
\newcommand{\definition}[1]{%
  \refstepcounter{definition}%
  \par\noindent\textbf{The Definition~\thedefinition. #1}%
  \addcontentsline{def}{figure}
    {\protect\numberline{\thechapter.\thedefinition}#1}\par%
}
\makeatletter
\preto\chapter{\addtocontents{def}{\protect\addvspace{10\p@}}}%
\makeatother

\begin{document}

\listoffigures
\listofdefinition
\chapter{A chapter}
\begin{figure}\caption{Some figure}\end{figure}
\begin{figure}\caption{Some figure}\end{figure}
\definition{Some definition}
\begin{figure}\caption{Some figure}\end{figure}
\definition{Some definition}
\begin{figure}\caption{Some figure}\end{figure}
\definition{Some definition}

\chapter{A chapter}
\begin{figure}\caption{Some figure}\end{figure}
\begin{figure}\caption{Some figure}\end{figure}
\definition{Some definition}
\begin{figure}\caption{Some figure}\end{figure}
\definition{Some definition}
\begin{figure}\caption{Some figure}\end{figure}
\definition{Some definition}

\end{document}

Regarding your list of questions:

I've inserted the definition entries to be type figure rather using
```
\addcontentsline{def}{figure}
  {\protect\numberline{\thechapter.\thedefinition}#1}\par%
```
That way they are formatted similarly, avoiding any overlap. If you have more definitions and still overlap, you need to change the width of the column.
My numbering works. You could also use \arabic{chapter}.\thedefinition or even \arabic{chapter}.\arabic{definition} which should strip any inherited counters attached to \thechapter or \thedefinition.
Solved via (1.) above.

I've also used the etoolbox package to add a vertical space between the chapter-separated definitions, similar to that of the LoF and LoT. This was done using \preto\chapter{<stuff>} which adds <stuff> before \chapter. Here stuff is \addvspace{10\p@} which adds a maximum of 10\p@ (10pt) vertically.

[Tex/LaTex] Capitalise table of contents title with tocloft

If you only want to capitalize the ToC title and not to use a different name, the following works:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{tocloft}

\renewcommand{\cfttoctitlefont}{\normalfont\Large\bfseries\MakeUppercase}

\begin{document}

\tableofcontents

\section{foo}

\end{document}

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