Table of content with long entry across two pages

Question

In my thesis, I have a section with a very long name, which must appear in its entirety in the table of content.

The title consists of three lines and, unfortunately, it is split in two different pages. Is there any way to fix this by putting the whole section title in the second page?

Thanks!

user11232 · Accepted Answer

You can adopt this answer given by Karl. In case if you want the section to stay in the current page as a whole, you may use

addtocontents{toc}{protectenlargethispage{baselineskip}} % here

Change baselineskip suitably.

Code: (adopted from linked answer):

documentclass[12pt]{book}

begin{document}

tableofcontents

chapter{Chapter}
section{Section}
section{Section}
chapter{Chapter}
section{Section}
subsection{Subsection}
subsection{Subsection}
section{Section}
subsection{Subsection}
subsection{Subsection}
chapter{Chapter}
section{Section}
section{Section}
chapter{Chapter}
section{Section}
subsection{Subsection}
subsection{Subsection}
section{Section}
subsection{Subsection}
subsection{Subsection}
chapter{Chapter}
section{Section}
%addtocontents{toc}{protectpagebreak[4]} % here
addtocontents{toc}{protectenlargethispage{baselineskip}} % here
section{Section that has some long lines Section that has some long lines Section that has some long lines Section that has some long lines Section that has some long lines}
subsection{Subsection}
subsection{Subsection}
subsection{Subsection}

end{document}

fliomu · Answer

If the documentclass is a standard class you can switch to a counterpart KOMA-Script class. These classes prevent splitting of entries in lists like the table of contents automatically. The document classes article, report, and book can be replaced by scrartcl, scrreprt, and scrbook, respectively.
(Because KOMA-Script uses styles for the headings that differ from the styles in the standard classes, it is advisable to load the class with the headings=standardclasses option if the old familiar appearance is desired.)

Table of content with long entry across two pages

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