TeX - LaTeX Asked on February 25, 2021
I am trying to add some horizontal bars to the contents of my thesis, to split it up a little. However, I am finding that the horizontal bars do not appear where I set them. As an MWE I have written the following document:
documentclass{report}
%Horizontal line in toc
usepackage{tocloft}
newcommandtocrule{cftaddtitleline{toc}{chapter}{rule{textwidth}{0.4pt}}{}}
begin{document}
tableofcontents
include{chapter1}
tocrule
include{chapter2}
end{document}
The file chapter1 is simply chapter{My chapter 1}
and chapter2 similarly include{chapter2}
. When I make the document, the horizontal bar is below chapter 2 in the contents. Something strange is going on with the interaction between cftaddtitleline
and include
. If the chapter
s are in the main document then the contents page renders fine. Obviously, for my thesis, I don’t want everything in one file.
cftaddtitleline{toc}{chapter}{rule{textwidth}{0.4pt}}{}
writes @writefile{toc}{contentsline {chapter}{rule {textwidth }{0.4pt}}{}}
to the main aux file, when the current page is shipped out.
include
writes immediatley an @input command for the own aux file of the included tex file to the main aux file. So, if the cftaddtitleline
command appears on the same page as include
the @input
for the special aux goes the main aux before the @writefile{toc}
… .
Therefore the resulting main aux file of your example is:
...
@input{chapter1.aux}
@input{chapter2.aux}
@writefile{toc}{contentsline {chapter}{rule {textwidth }{0.4pt}}{}}
...
AFAIK this behaviour of include
can not be changed.
But here are at least three possible solutions:
input
instead include
:begin{filecontents}[overwrite]{chapter1.tex}
chapter{Foo}
end{filecontents}
begin{filecontents}[overwrite]{chapter2.tex}
chapter{Bar}
end{filecontents}
documentclass{report}
%Horizontal line in toc
usepackage{tocloft}
newcommandtocrule{cftaddtitleline{toc}{chapter}{rule{textwidth}{0.4pt}}{}}
begin{document}
tableofcontents
input{chapter1}
tocrule
input{chapter2}
end{document}
tocrule
in file chapter2.tex:begin{filecontents}[overwrite]{chapter1.tex}
chapter{Foo}
end{filecontents}
begin{filecontents}[overwrite]{chapter2.tex}
tocrule
chapter{Bar}
end{filecontents}
documentclass{report}
%Horizontal line in toc
usepackage{tocloft}
newcommandtocrule{cftaddtitleline{toc}{chapter}{rule{textwidth}{0.4pt}}{}}
begin{document}
tableofcontents
include{chapter1}
include{chapter2}
end{document}
The result is the same as above.
scrlfile
and use BeforeFile{chapter2.tex}{tocrule}
before include{chapter2}
:begin{filecontents}[overwrite]{chapter1.tex}
chapter{Foo}
end{filecontents}
begin{filecontents}[overwrite]{chapter2.tex}
chapter{Bar}
end{filecontents}
documentclass{report}
%Horizontal line in toc
usepackage{tocloft}
newcommandtocrule{cftaddtitleline{toc}{chapter}{rule{textwidth}{0.4pt}}{}}
usepackage{scrlfile}
begin{document}
tableofcontents
include{chapter1}
BeforeFile{chapter2.tex}{tocrule}
include{chapter2}
end{document}
or
begin{filecontents}[overwrite]{chapter1.tex}
chapter{Foo}
end{filecontents}
begin{filecontents}[overwrite]{chapter2.tex}
chapter{Bar}
end{filecontents}
documentclass{report}
%Horizontal line in toc
usepackage{tocloft}
newcommandtocrule{cftaddtitleline{toc}{chapter}{rule{textwidth}{0.4pt}}{}}
usepackage{scrlfile}
BeforeFile{chapter2.tex}{tocrule}
begin{document}
tableofcontents
include{chapter1}
include{chapter2}
end{document}
The result is the same as above.
Correct answer by esdd on February 25, 2021
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