Increase distance to page numbers in table of content

Question

I'd like to know how to decrease the column width in the ToC so that the white distance to the page numbers increase. Thanks a lot!

This is the result when I use:

\makeatletter
\renewcommand*\@pnumwidth{2em}
\makeatother

Tough crowd sometimes! It's likely this is a duplicate. That said, see if this QA or this QA gets you started. If not, a more complete MWE would help. Charter is a font; so, it's not part of the problem. And, it'd be Ok to edit the Q to remove tables and columns tags, since this is a ToC issue. tables and columns are typically in the body of the doc. — Saphar Koshet, Nov 12 '18 at 13:51
Does it matter if you redefine @pnumwidth before you load packages? — John Kormylo, Nov 12 '18 at 16:40
Can you make a minimal working example (MWE) that shows us which class you are using, if there are modifications to the toc etc.? — samcarter_is_at_topanswers.xyz, Nov 14 '18 at 14:57
@mldmnn Who's on-line when can be a challenge sometimes. Are the leader dots appearing at the chapter level, the section level, subsection, etc.? Does this help? (It seems a shame to give away more than half your points on this,) — Saphar Koshet, Nov 14 '18 at 16:01
@JohnKormylo -- since there's no difference between redefining \@pnumwidth before or after loading packages. i'd try putting the redefinition after loading all packages, and further, wrapping it in \AtBeginDocument{...}. — barbara beeton, Nov 16 '18 at 00:59

Eric Marsden · Accepted Answer · 2018-11-14T16:10:04.173

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This seems to work for me:

\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{tocloft}
\makeatletter
\renewcommand{\@pnumwidth}{3cm}
\renewcommand{\@tocrmarg}{4cm}
\renewcommand{\cftdotsep}{\cftnodots}
\makeatother
\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
\chapter{Longer longer longer longer Longer longer longer longer Longer longer longer longer Longer
  longer longer longer Longer longer longer longer Longer longer longer longer}

Foo.

\chapter{Longer longer longer longer Longer longer longer longer Longer longer longer longer Longer
  longer longer longer Longer longer longer longer Longer longer longer longer}

Bar.

\chapter{Longer longer longer longer Longer longer longer longer Longer longer longer longer Longer
  longer longer longer Longer longer longer longer Longer longer longer longer}

Bar.
\end{document}

edited Nov 14 '18 at 16:10

answered Nov 14 '18 at 14:56

Eric Marsden

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This worked for me! But now dots appear. How to get rid of it? – mldmnn Nov 14 '18 at 15:26
If you have dots, it must be due to some other package that you are using. I've edited my answer to include a MWE without dots. – Eric Marsden Nov 14 '18 at 15:48
@EricMarsden See if the chapters are producing the dots, or the sections, e.g., this scenario – Saphar Koshet Nov 14 '18 at 15:52
You're right, dots are produced by sections. I updated the MWE to remove dots. – Eric Marsden Nov 14 '18 at 16:09
@EricMarsden Good work. – Saphar Koshet Nov 14 '18 at 18:40

Increase distance to page numbers in table of content

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