[texhax] TOC problems

[Lars Madsen]

Andy Farnell wrote:
> 
> Thanks for reponse Lars,
> 
> I have discovered something that seems relevant, a correlation between
> the main.toc file and the errant behaviour.
> 
> The book comprises 4 parts, theory, tools, technique and practicals.
> 
> Parts 1-3 are fine. These are very orthodox with sections, subsections
> and so forth. They print fine in the TOC.
> 
> Part 4 is special, because each chapter follows exactly the same section
> structure - Aims, Analysis, Methods, DSP code, Results, Conclusions etc.
> Because of this I do not want the sections to show up, so I use 
> \section*{} throughout.
> 
> I have elected to make the TOC depth to the sections level, which gives
> the optimal information but no more. 
> 
> The result is that main.toc follows a traditional format 
> Part 1
> Chapter 1
> Section 1
> Subsection 1 ...
> Section 2 ...
> 
> Chapter 2
> Section 1 ...
> 
> Part 2 ...
> 
> (of course only the Parts, Chapters and Sections print in TOC)
> 
> all the way up to 
> 
> Part 4
> 
> but then there are no other entries deeper than chapter, so it continues
> 
> Chapter n
> Chapter n+1
> Chapter n+2 ...
> 
> Here is where the problem starts.
> 
> Latex doesn't want to split these over a page.
> 
> I'm considering some options such as trying to use
> 
> \addtocontents{toc}{\protect\newpage} to force a page break.
> 
>>From the tocloft manual
> 
> "You may get undesired page breaks in the ToC. For example you may have
> long multiline section title and in the ToC there is a page break between
> the lines. After your document is stable you can use \addtocontents at
> appropriate places in the body of the document to adjust the page breaking
> in the ToC."
> 
> QUESTION:
> 
> Is it a fair assumption that the .toc file effectively isolates the
> TOC printing from any other prior code that produced it? If so
> the problem seems related to the lack of any children to chapters.
> 
> Have I found a bug?
> 
> Is there a possible remedy like inserting some kind of invisible
> child level to chapter in Part 4?
> 
> Thankyou for any thoughts,
> 
> Andy Farnell
> 
>  

I cannot say, I need to see what generates the .toc file, and thus have 
something I can run on my system.

Also I don;t know which class you are using, and what is \contentsfinish

and how does those lines appear.

Please create a minimal example that we can run, that produces the bad TOC.

/daleif