Text Formatting ⇒ MakeLowercase in \cftchapfont (tocloft)

[Dan]

Hello all,

I want to have my chapter titles in the table of contents formatted in small-caps with no full-height capital letters.

Using

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\renewcommand{\cftchapfont}{\normalsize \scshape}

gets me halfway there, but I still get the full-size caps. \MakeLowercase doesn't work, neither do the commands provided by the textcase package.

I've also had a look through the tocloft package definition to see how it handles the command, but can't make any sense of it

Any idea how to do this?

Also, I'd like to remove the numbering in the TOC for chapters (since all my chapters start with a section, so the number is redundant) is there an easy way to do this?

Thanks!

[localghost]

I don't see the problem. The following works fine for me.

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\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,english]{report}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage{tocloft}
\usepackage{blindtext}

\parindent0em
\renewcommand{\cftchapfont}{\normalsize\scshape}

\begin{document}
  \tableofcontents
  \Blinddocument
\end{document}

Reduce your code to a minimal working example (MWE) that shows the undesired behaviour.


Best regards
Thorsten¹

[Dan]

The example you posted exhibits exactly the behaviour I mean.

I wish to make the TOC entry for the chapter entirely lowercase (composed only of small caps, no full-height caps).

For instance:

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\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,english]{report}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage{babel}

\parindent0em

\begin{document}
\scshape This Is The Name Of The Chapter

\scshape \MakeLowercase{This Is The Name Of The Chapter}
\end{document}

The second line is what I wish to have in my TOC for chapter titles, but even with \MakeLowercase or \MakeTextLowercase in the \ctftocchapfont{} command, you still get full-height capitals.

Hope that clears it up!

[localghost]

Obviously I understood you completely wrong and at the moment I can't offer a solution to that issue.

[Dan]

Ok! Thanks for giving it a shot.

[phi]

try this:

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\renewcommand*{\cftchapaftersnumb}{\normalsize\scshape\MakeLowercase}

[Dan]

Gah, that works perfectly for the first word of the chapter title!

Any chapters with more than one word in the title have the second word capitalised

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Dan,

try redefining \l@chapter:

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\makeatletter
\let\oldl@chapter\l@chapter
\renewcommand*\l@chapter[2]{\oldl@chapter{\MakeLowercase{#1}}{#2}}
\makeatother

Stefan

[phi]

or with a KOMA-Script class:

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\documentclass{scrreprt}

\setkomafont{chapterentry}{\mdseries\scshape\MakeLowercase}

\begin{document}

\tableofcontents
\chapter{AAAA BBB ccc DDdDDd}

\end{document}

[Dan]

Phi, all that does is change my chapter headings (in the document itself) to my Sans-Serif font, which I'm guessing is a side-effect of using a KOMA-Script class.

Stefan, I get an undefined control sequence with that, but I see what you're doing. My first thought (before using tocloft) was to try and redefine the chapter heading but I didn't know where to start.

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! Undefined control sequence.
\hyper@linkstart ...>\protected@edef \Hy@testname 
                                                  {#2}\ifx \Hy@testname \@em...
l.1 ...ter}{\numberline {1}Prologue}{6}{chapter.1}