Robert Klein <roklein@roklein.de> writes:

> Hi,
>
> On Sun, 12 Aug 2018 13:25:34 +0200
> Eric S Fraga <esflists@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Sunday, 12 Aug 2018 at 06:49, Alain.Cochard@unistra.fr wrote:
>> > Sharon Kimble writes on Sun 12 Aug 2018 00:36:  
>> >  > 
>> >  > I've been puzzling over this for several weeks now, how can I
>> >  > get the  
>> >  
>> >  > TOC of a document, written in org-mode and exported as latex and
>> >  > then built into a PDF, have just one column of its TOC, instead
>> >  > of what seems to be its default of 2 columns, please?  
>> >
>> > That is funny, for me it has always been one column.  How do you do
>> > two columns?    
>> 
>> It might depend on the LaTeX class used.  It's not an org issue.
>
> Indeed.  I remember looking for a way to make the Toc two column.  My
> LaTeX export now sports a line
>
> \usepackage[toc]{multitoc}
>
> plus some configurations.
>
> If you don't find a “#+LaTeX_Header: ” line \usepackaging some toc
> package or stuff, you might want to look at your emacs initialization
> file.  In particular look for a modification of the
> “org-latex-packages-alist” variable.
>
> Best regards
> Robert

Thanks Eric and Robert.

I had a look and found that I too had multitoc loaded in, and when I
commented it out my TOC became one only column, which is what I want.

Many thanks both

Sharon.
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