How to create a table with table of contents like attributes?

Question

Is there a simple way to create a table of contents like table?

In detail i want the same layout like the toc, the same width and especially the filling of the white space with dots, but with a tabular as content.

So far I tried to adopt the regular tabular and adjust the alignment and column width, but I fail at filling the white spaces with dotted lines.

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score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered May 28 '15 at 08:11

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tabularx}

\makeatletter
\newcommand*{\tocdotfill}{%
  \leaders\hbox{%
    $\m@th \mkern \@dotsep mu\hbox{.}\mkern \@dotsep mu$%
  }\hfill\kern\z@
}
\makeatother

\begin{document}
\noindent
\begin{tabularx}{\linewidth}{lXr}
A & Hello world \dotfill & 1\\
B & Foobar \tocdotfill & 2\\
\end{tabularx}
\end{document}

The important issue is that a skip specification is removed at the end of a table cell via \unskip. \dotfill has added a \kern\z@ at the end to prevent this.

Macro \tocdotfill uses the same code as \dottedtocline, which is used in the table of contents. Also \kern\z@ is appended to prevent from "unskipping". Also other things like \null, an empty \hbox, can be used for this purpose.

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:35

The dotted lines are made with \dotfill. A table with tabularx could be:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tabularx}
\begin{document}
\begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{ccX@{}l}
    test1 & test & test \dotfill & [A] \\
    test2 & test & test \dotfill & [V] \\
\end{tabularx}
\end{document}

To change the spacing of the dots you can redefine the command (see: How to change dot spacing in \dotfill?)

How to create a table with table of contents like attributes?

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