TOC edit the numbering from the part section in the TOC

Question

I am very new to Tex, I am working of a template that someone else has given me.

I am try to change the /part{Part I: my stuff} from looking like this in the TOC

 1 Introduction

 I  Part I: my stuff

 2  Procedure blah blah

 3  Procedure blah blah

 II Part II: my stuff

 4  Procedure blah blah

to something like:

 1 Introduction

 Part I: my stuff

    2  Procedure blah blah

    3  Procedure blah blah

 Part II: my stuff

    4  Procedure blah blah

Currently I have this

%% ---------------------------------------------------------------------- %%
\mainmatter

% Main matter
% -> Global Introduction
\input{Chapters/Introduction.tex} 
%% *****     PART 1     *****
\part*{<Insert Title of First Part>}

\input{Chapters/SummaryPartA.tex}

%% *****     PART 2     *****
\part*{<Insert Title of second Part>}

\input{Chapters/SummaryPartB.tex}

Thank you for your help

This partly depends on which documentclass you are using. Can you provide a minimal working example (MWE). Also, http://tex.stackexchange.com/q/33841/15925 looks very similar to your question. — Andrew Swann, Jan 03 '14 at 12:47
Thanks Andrew its actually a custom Thesis class which is based on the book.cls — CromeX, Jan 03 '14 at 13:10
The question I linked to is specifically about the book.cls. Does it solve your problem? If not you will need to provide a link to your custom class. — Andrew Swann, Jan 03 '14 at 13:59
It helps with the indentation problem, just missing the step to re-edit the part numbering. — CromeX, Jan 04 '14 at 14:35

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 04 '14 at 21:03

The following works with the book document class, so I hope it will work with yours, too, since it is based on this one.

It seems to me that you want the indenting for \chapters starting with the second one. So we can add a line (requires the tocloft package)

\addtocontents{toc}{\protect\setlength{\cftchapindent}{2em}}

just after the first \chapter.

Also, to have no numbers in the ToC for numbered \parts, we can patch the command \@part through \patchcmd in this way (requires the etoolbox package)

\makeatletter
\patchcmd{\@part}
    {\addcontentsline{toc}{part}{\thepart\hspace{1em}#1}}
    {\addcontentsline{toc}{part}{#1}}
    {}
    {}
\makeatother

Complete MWE:

\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{tocloft}
\usepackage{etoolbox}
\makeatletter
\patchcmd{\@part}
    {\addcontentsline{toc}{part}{\thepart\hspace{1em}#1}}
    {\addcontentsline{toc}{part}{#1}}
    {}
    {}
\makeatother

\begin{document}

\tableofcontents

\chapter{Introduction}
\addtocontents{toc}{\protect\setlength{\cftchapindent}{2em}}
\part{Part I: my stuff}
\chapter{Procedure blah blah}
\chapter{Procedure blah blah}
\part{Part II: my stuff}
\chapter{Procedure blah blah}
\end{document}

Output:

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Karl, Oh Ah. Check didn't appear in my browser. I will delete it. — , Jan 05 '14 at 23:16

TOC edit the numbering from the part section in the TOC

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