Re: Export bug: LaTeX TOC headline numbers above 100 overlap headline

From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: tcburt@rochester.rr.com
Cc: Jeff Kowalczyk <jtk@yahoo.com>, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Export bug: LaTeX TOC headline numbers above 100 overlap headline
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 08:16:01 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8029AE6C-0ACA-419E-88A8-02621319AA8E@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19132.42029.238289.521092@nitrogen.burtket>

Wow, Tim, thanks a lot for this excellent answer.
I am glad this is in the mailing list archive now.

- Carsten

On Sep 25, 2009, at 12:06 PM, Tim Burt wrote:

> Carsten Dominik writes:
>> On Sep 25, 2009, at 2:10 AM, Jeff Kowalczyk wrote:
>>
>>> When the headline count for a pdftolatex export gets to be more than
>>> 100 lines, the TOC renders with the headline number directly
>>> touching the headline text. More than 1,000, and it starts to  
>>> overlap.
>>
>> This is a LaTeX issue, which I do not know how to fix.
>>
>> - Carsten
>>
>>>
>>> It would seem that LaTeX calculates the space to allocate for the
>>> headline number based on too few initial entries.
>>>
>>> I have included a simple test case below.
>
> * Executive Summary
>
> Add the following two lines to the org file (after ensuring you have
> the tocloft.sty package installed and visible to LaTeX).
> #+LaTeX_HEADER: \usepackage{tocloft}
> #+LaTeX_HEADER: \setlength{\cftsecnumwidth}{3em}
>
> * Supporting Jabber
>
> The formatting for Table of Contents (and its kin) is set deep in the
> class definitions.  The tocloft package provides user-level commands
> to modify those internals which the tocloft documentation describes
> quite well, including a figure that shows a value called 'numwidth' is
> the length of the box in which the number is set.  This value can be
> different for each sectioning level (e.g. chapter, section,
> subsection).  In the test case below, the first org level[1] is being
> exported as a \section{}.  The box length for section can be set by
> the value of \cftsecnumwidth using the \setlength command, as in
>     \setlength{\cftsecnumwidth}{3em}
> The second argument must have a unit of length which in this example
> is 'em' (the width of a capital M).  This allows the width of the box
> to scale with font changes, but other units are certainly permissible
> (e.g. cm, mm, in).
>
>
> Good morning,
> Tim
>
>
> [1] Note: This test case was run using the default org export
> variables for LaTeX which means the article class was used.  If
> another class is used (e.g. report) then the first org level should be
> exported as a \chapter{}.  In this case, replace \cftsecnumwidth with
> \cftchapnumwidth.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Jeff
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