LaTeX Table of Contents Overlap

[Jahrme Risner]

In some circumstances (simplest example, 100 chapters) the table of contents structural numbers will collide with the chapter/section titles.

(see attached pdf page)

Searching for a solution turned up SE post about such collisions recommending the use of the "tocloft" package.

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/296545/overlapping-numbers-and-titles-in-toc

I'm not sure if/how this should be approached by MBX (e.g., condition on the length of the longest structural number, always add space, etc.), but I thought it should at least be given some discussion.

[Rob Beezer]

Thanks, Jahrme. I had the same problem in FCLA with the acronymns in place of
numbers, with up to 5 characters and often several wide ones like "M". Looks
like my solution was the tocloft package (that I used extensively) and then

\cftsetpnumwidth{3em}

But I'm a bit reluctant to add a wide-ranging package to fix this little
problem, especially when a search on "tocloft conflict" turns up the "subfigure"
package several times (and I'm working now on figures inside sidebyside).

I do have lots of control over the "shorttitle" that gets sent to the table of
contents, so could maybe routinely prefix it with extra space.

If somebody has a straightfoward fix to this, I'd love to hear about it.
Otherwise, I might send this to the issues for work when it becomes more urgent.
Did you encounter this in something you are doing now?

Rob

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[Jahrme Risner]

It is not urgent for me as I was simply looking back at a project I started in January and may pick up at some point if I ever have "extra" time. That project, creating a more accessible version of Euler's "Letters to a German Princess", could also benefit from other improvements. For instance, as the work is organized as a collection of letters in two or three volumes (English versus French versions respectively), having some sort of support for epistolary documents would be quite helpful. When I toyed with the project in January I simply renamed <chapter> to <letter> (as well as <part> to <volume>) and it was workable, though not ideal.

Yesterday I was more just looking back and seeing how "sloppy" my xml was six months ago compared to today, and I just happened to notice the table of contents collision.