How to wrap text in toc?

Question

I have long titles for my document chapter. These titles are going beyond the right margin.

How to word wrap section and subsection headings in toc?

Please provide a full working example including your documentclass and a sample heading — Martin H, Nov 29 '13 at 18:04
For the case that you are using »hyperref« you need to add the breaklinks option. — Thorsten Donig, Nov 29 '13 at 18:05
It is better you use the optional argument of the section etc to avoid cluttering toc. — , Nov 29 '13 at 22:47

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 29 '13 at 22:07

You could want to change the layout of the TOC page (only) in order to avoid titles split.

The geometrey package allows you to modify temporary a page margins with these commands (I just put left and right margins because it relevant for your issue but there is also top and down margin options):

\newgeometry{lmargin=1cm,rmargin=1cm}
\tableofcontents
\newpage
\restoregeometry

You should be also aware that there is a way to define short versions of titles for the TOC. In this case, long versions are printed in the body of the document but the TOC shows shorter ones.

\chapter[Short title]{My very very very long title useless which does not fit in my toc page}

Given that most documents require fixed margins, it's really unlikely that this is a practical solution. — Alan Munn, Nov 29 '13 at 22:12
@AlanMunn Yes it is not very nice but it does the job (if you are ok to lower your typography standard). — ppr, Nov 30 '13 at 06:37

How to wrap text in toc?

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