[texhax] Customizng the Appearance of Parts and Chapters in the TOC

[Lars Madsen]

On 2011-01-11 00:11, jmcar at earthlink.net wrote:
> I have a question for anyone who might be able to help:
> When Latex prints sections in the table of contents, it prints them
> starting with their number, so for instance if the third chapter is
> specified in the body of the document by the command \chapter{Basic
> Probability Theory}, then what appears in the table of contents is:
> 3 Basic Probability Theory
> But what if the user wants the table of contents entry to print like
> this instead:
> Chapter 3 Basic Probability Theory
> In other words, the user wants the word "Chapter" to be printed in front
> of the chapter number. Or what if the user wants the toc entry to print as:
> Chapter 3: Basic Probability Theory
> i.e. print "Chapter" before the section number and also print a colon
> after the section number.
> The document class I'm using is "book", and I'd like to make these types
> of customizations with both the "part" and "chapter" sections.
> Thanks!
> Jerry Coleman
> jmcar at earthlink.net <mailto:jmcar at earthlink.net>
> EarthLink Revolves Around You.
>

the memoir class can handle this, and perhaps also the tocloft package