[texhax] Partially multicolumn TOC

[William Adams]

On Apr 12, 2011, at 4:29 AM, Aleksandar Zec wrote:

> Is there a simple way to produce the effect like this in a table of contents:
> 
> chapter 1 ................................ ##
> section 1 ....... ##  |  section 6 ....... ##
> section 2 ....... ##  |  section 7 ....... ##
> section 3 ....... ##  |  section 8 ....... ##
> section 4 ....... ##  |  section 9 ....... ##
> section 5 ....... ##  |  section 10 ...... ##
> 
> chapter 2 .................................##
> section 11 ...... ##  |  section 14 ...... ##
> section 12 ...... ##  |  section 15 ...... ##
> section 13 ...... ##  |  section 16 ...... ##
> 
> I.e. only sections go to \begin{multicols}{2}...\end{multicols},
> everything other stays intact? Ideally, this should be pagebreak-safe.
> 
> Thank you very much in advance.

Brute force way should be to place

\addtocontents{toc}{\begin{multicols}{2}} 

and 

\addtocontents{toc}{\end{multicols}} 

at appropriate points in your document.

If you're willing to keep track, you could add the code to \chapter

William

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