[texhax] tableofcontents

[Tim McKenzie]

2008/7/12 Loeghmon T. Nejad <loeghmon at gmail.com>:
> What is the best way to organize table of contents in the following
> form(example):
>
> Charles Dickens
>        Tale of Two Cities
>         Oliver Twist
>         etc.
>         etc.
> William Shakespeare
>          Othello
>          Macbeth
>          etc.
>          etc.
> Writer One
>          work 1
>          work2

I'm in the middle of trying to typeset Dostoevsky's The Brothers
Karamazov, which requires something similar: The novel contains four
parts and an epilogue; each part contains three books; and each book
contains a number of chapters (as does the epilogue). (To further
complicate things, the books are numbered 1--12, but the chapter
numbers start at 1 again for each book.)

It's been a while since I organized the table of contents, but it
looks like I've done this:

%%%%%
\makeatletter
\providecommand*{\toclevel at mypart}{0}
\providecommand*{\toclevel at book}{1}
\providecommand*{\toclevel at mychapter}{2}
\makeatother

\usepackage[pagestyles]{titlesec}
\usepackage{titletoc}

\titleclass{\mypart}{page}[\part]
\newcounter{mypart}
\renewcommand{\themypart}{\Roman{mypart}}
\titleformat{\mypart}{\Huge\scshape\filcenter}{}{0pt}{}
\titlespacing{\mypart}{0pt}{9pc}{0pt}

\titleclass{\book}{page}[\mypart]
\newcounter{book}
\renewcommand{\thebook}{\Roman{book}}
\titleformat{\book}[display]{\bfseries\LARGE\filcenter}{Book
\thebook}{24pt}{\huge}
\titlespacing{\book}{0pt}{6pc}{0pt}

\titleclass{\mychapter}{straight}[\book]
\newcounter{mychapter}[book]
\renewcommand{\themychapter}{\arabic{mychapter}}
\titleformat{\mychapter}[display]{\filleft\bfseries\Large}{Chapter
\themychapter}{1ex}{\LARGE}
\titlespacing{\mychapter}{0pt}{24pt}{12pt}

\setmarks{book}{mychapter}
\newpagestyle{main}{
  \headrule
  \sethead[\thepage][][\small\bfseries\sffamily The Brothers
Karamazov: \booktitle]
          {\small\bfseries\sffamily\mychaptertitle}{}{\thepage}}

\titlecontents{mypart}[0pt]{\addvspace{1pc}\scshape\Large}{}{}{}
\titlecontents{book}[1pc]{\addvspace{0.5pc}\bfseries\large}{Book
\thecontentslabel: }{}{}
\titlecontents{mychapter}[4pc]{}{\contentslabel{2em}}{}{\titlerule*[1pc]{.}\contentspage}
%%%%%

I seem to remember that the documentation for titilesec and titletoc
helped me a lot, so it's worth a look.

Tim
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