How to reduce spacing between chapters in table of content?

Question

I wold like to reduce the spacing between the chapter entries in my table of content. I havent been able to find a problem similar to what I would like solved.

A minimal work of my report is below. This gives a large spacing in the table of content between eg. results and conclusion, between conclusion and Appendix A and so on.

documentclass[12pt,a4paper,fleqn]{report}

begin{document}

tableofcontents

chapter{introduction}
section{first section}
section{second section}

chapter{Main matter}
chapter{Results}
chapter{Conclusion}
chapter{Appendix A}
chapter{Appendix B}

end{document}

Vahid Damanafshan · Accepted Answer

You can use the tocloft package and its cftbeforechapskip command to achieve your desired spacing:

documentclass[12pt,a4paper,fleqn]{report}
usepackage[titles]{tocloft}
setlength{cftbeforechapskip}{3pt}
begin{document}

tableofcontents

chapter{introduction}
section{first section}
section{second section}

chapter{Main matter}
chapter{Results}
chapter{Conclusion}
chapter{Appendix A}
chapter{Appendix B}

end{document}

OUTPUT:

esdd · Answer

Or you could use package tocbasic:

documentclass[12pt,a4paper,fleqn]{report}

usepackage{tocbasic}
DeclareTOCStyleEntry[
  beforeskip=.2em plus 1pt,% default is 1em plus 1pt
  pagenumberformat=textbf
]{tocline}{chapter}

begin{document}
tableofcontents 
chapter{introduction}
section{first section}
section{second section}
chapter{Main matter}
chapter{Results}
chapter{Conclusion}
chapter{Appendix A}
chapter{Appendix B}
end{document}

Result:

Bernard · Answer

You can do that in a simple way with titletoc. In the following code, the vertical spacing aboce the entrys is set in the first mandatory  argument of the  titlecontents command. I set it to medskip for chapters, but you change it at will:

documentclass[12pt,a4paper,fleqn]{report}

usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
usepackage{titletoc}

titlecontents{chapter}
    [0em] %
    {medskipbfseries}
    {thecontentslabelquad}%numbered chapters
    {}%numberless chapter
    {hfillcontentspage}

titlecontents{section}[1.72em]{smallskip}%
    {thecontentslabel.enspace}%numbered sections
    {}%numberless section
    {titlerule*[1.2pc]{.}contentspage}%

begin{document}

tableofcontents

chapter{introduction}
section{first section}
section{second section}

chapter{Main matter}
chapter{Results}
chapter{Conclusion}
chapter{Appendix A}
chapter{Appendix B}

end{document}

qed · Answer

With titletoc the following did the trick for me:
usepackage{titletoc}

titlecontents{chapter}
    [0em] %
    {bfseries}
    {Chapter thecontentslabelquad}%numbered chapters
    {}%numberless chapter
    {hfillcontentspage}

titlecontents{section}[1.72em]{vspace{-10pt}}%
    {thecontentslabel.enspace}%numbered sections
    {}%numberless section
    {titlerule*[0.5pc]{.}contentspage}%

Note the negative vspace.

How to reduce spacing between chapters in table of content?

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