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How to add extra space to the table of contents, list of figures and tables

16. July 2013 by tom 25 Comments

The tocloft package implements a number of commands to customize the table of contents, list of figures and list of tables. One of these commands provided by the package adds whitespace before entries. This is particularly neat for short documents, but might also improve the readability in longer content lists. However, it has its limitations … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Figure & table, Introduction, LaTeX, Package, Tips & tricks Tagged: addtocontents, cftbeforeXskip, cftXafterpnum, conditional space toc, etoolbox, LaTeX, listoffigures, listoftables, tableofcontents, tocloft

10 ways to customize toc/lof/lot

9. September 2011 by tom 144 Comments

I put together this list of 10 ways to customize the Table of Contents, List of Figures and List of Tables. Some of them are pretty common, some may be new to you. Hope you enjoy the list… Some pieces of code below require the tocloft package which provides extensive customization functionality for table of … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Figure & table, Introduction, LaTeX, Package, Tips & tricks Tagged: addcontentsline, figure, hyperref, LaTeX, listoffigures, listoftables, lof, lot, minitoc, table, tableofcontent, toc, tocloft, usepackage

Define your own “list of …”

13. July 2008 by tom 55 Comments

I got this very interesting question lately, how to define a custom list of examples, similar to the list of figures. But as this is not only applicable to examples, but to all sorts of things (e.g. questions, theorems, proofs, lemmas, answers, etc.) and hence might be useful for other people, I decided publish a … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Introduction, LaTeX, Package Tagged: article, book, LaTeX, listoffigures, listoftables, newlistof, report, tableofcontent, tocloft




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