Page Layout ⇒ What is wrong with tocloft ?

[Cham]

I'm having troubles just for adding dots in the ToC, using the tocloft package. It's clashing with my header. Here's a MWE that reproduces my problem :

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\documentclass[11pt,letterpaper,twoside]{article}
\usepackage[total={6in,10in},left=1.5in,top=0.5in,includehead,includefoot]{geometry}
% For the ToC :
\usepackage{tocloft}
\renewcommand{\cftsecleader}{\cftdotfill{\cftdotsep}}  % Add . . . for sections.
% For headers :
\usepackage[pagestyles,medium]{titlesec}
\titleformat*{\subsubsection}{\bfseries\sffamily}

% Header :
\newpagestyle{principal}{
	\sethead[\thepage][][\slshape\footnotesize\MakeUppercase{Name on right}]{\slshape{\footnotesize{Name on left}}}{}{\thepage}
	\headrule
}

\begin{document}

\pagestyle{principal}

\tableofcontents

\newpage
\section{Title 1}

\newpage
\section{Title 2}

\newpage
\section{Title 3}

\end{document}

Compiling this code gives an error : "Undefined control sequence".

What is wrong with this code ?

EDIT : Hmm, changing the order of \pagestyle{principal} and \tableofcontents appears to solve the issue, but I don't understand what is happening here.

[Johannes_B]

Use the package that is shipped with titlesec.

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\documentclass[11pt,letterpaper,twoside]{article}
\usepackage[total={6in,10in},left=1.5in,top=0.5in,includehead,includefoot]{geometry}
% For the ToC :
\usepackage{titletoc}
\dottedcontents{section}[3.8em]{}{2.3em}{1pc}

\usepackage[pagestyles,medium]{titlesec}
\titleformat*{\subsubsection}{\bfseries\sffamily}

% Header :
\newpagestyle{principal}{
\sethead[\thepage][][\slshape\footnotesize\MakeUppercase{Name on right}]{\slshape{\footnotesize Name on left}}{}{\thepage}
\headrule
}

\begin{document}

\pagestyle{principal}

\tableofcontents

\newpage
\section{Title 1}

\newpage
\section{Title 2}

\newpage
\section{Title 3}

\end{document}

[Cham]

Why titletoc ? The ToC style is now vastly different. The spacing is too dense, and the section titles should be in bold.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Something is not perfect with tocloft, but here's a quick fix for your preamble:

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\makeatletter
\let\ttl@savemark\relax
\makeatother

It just creates the still undefined macro so that error does not happen, as a workaround.

Stefan