ToC Chapter alignment conflict with titlesec

Question

I need all the numbering aligned left, sections and subsections slightly (0 or 2pt maybe?) on the right of chapter. Chapter and section all caps.

The screenshot will explain better what I need:

And this is my MWE:

\documentclass[a5paper]{abntex2}

\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}        
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[brazil]{babel}
\selectlanguage{brazil}
\usepackage{xcolor}

\usepackage{hyperref} 
\hypersetup{
  colorlinks   = {true}, %Colours links instead of ugly boxes
  urlcolor     = {black}, %Colour for external hyperlinks
  linkcolor    = {black}, %Colour of internal links
  citecolor   = {black} %Colour of citations
}

\usepackage{titlesec}
\titleformat{\chapter}
  {\fontfamily{phv}\selectfont\bfseries\LARGE}
  {\MakeUppercase{\thechapter}}{15pt}{} 
\titleformat{\section}
  {\fontfamily{fvs}\selectfont\bfseries}
  {\MakeUppercase{\thesection}}{15pt}{} 


\begin{document}

\tableofcontents*

\chapter{Introdução}
\section{Objetivos}
\subsection{Objetivos gerais}
\subsection{Objetivos específicos}

\chapter{Exposição do tema}
\section{Tema Geral}
\subsection{Tema específico}

\end{document}

As you can see below, when I add \titleformat for chapter, it gets an extra space (in red). Whats weird for me is that section has a titleformat but doesn't get buged.

Uppercase is not working for section, but bold is. abntex2 class is based on memoir, but using memoir returns me chapters without dots and breaks other necessary things on my thesis.

What I get:

I did try etoc and other packages, but it seems to me that I did something wrong that can be fixed without another package.

Or maybe there is indeed a conflict?

EDIT:

As suggested by cfr, I look at abntex2 manual for the upper case command, and it states doesn't affect ToC.

I also tried the sumario=tradicional option which should use memoir default ToC style, but I still get chapters with that weird space:

If I try to set

\makeatletter
 \renewcommand*\l@chapter{\@dottedtocline{0}{0em}{3.2em}}
\makeatother

I get a undefined control error. It seems like titlesec is indeed inferring with ToC.

line 4: Undefined control sequence. ...ntrodu\IeC {\c c}\IeC{\~a}o}{3}{chapter.1}

line 8: Undefined control sequence. ...eC {\c c}\IeC{\~a}o do tema}{5}{chapter.2}

Those lines contains: \contentsline {chapter}{\chapternumberline {1}Introdu\IeC {\c c}\IeC {\~a}o}{3}{chapter.1}

\contentsline {chapter}{\chapternumberline {2}Exposi\IeC {\c c}\IeC {\~a}o do tema}{5}{chapter.2}

You have a choice. Either you can stick with the class you are using and work with its method of configuring things, amending anything which doesn't work out-of-the-box. Or you can use a more standard class and its configuration options, loading any additional packages you need. Packages such as titlesec cannot be expected to work with arbitrary classes. The class you are using handles things in a certain way. Assuming that you can read the documentation, have a look to see how it tells you to do these things. (I can't read Portuguese so I'm just going by the code.) — cfr, Oct 23 '15 at 20:46
It has options for upper-casing headings, for example. I wouldn't probably recommend the class. I never trust classes and packages which include \makeatletter... \makeatother. But perhaps that's just me. — cfr, Oct 23 '15 at 20:49
Sadly my university requires me to follow this standards, which abntex2 seem to implement at some extend. I will have a look at the uppercase part. Thanks. — G. Bay, Oct 23 '15 at 21:24
There's code for the ToC as well. But it will be easier to figure out for you reading the documentation than trying to do it from the code, which is the only bit I can read. If you get stuck, I can ping people in the chat room. At least one (probably more) will be able to read the docs. — cfr, Oct 23 '15 at 21:44
I did, nothing specific about alignment, just font, levels, numbering etc. It points to memoir manual for further customization. — G. Bay, Oct 23 '15 at 21:52
Oh, well. Memoir's documentation is very good, though. So if it is just using default stuff from there from the ToC, you should find the information you need to customise it. But it could be that the spacing is in the label if the numbers are being set right for some reason. So still worth looking at the level/numbering stuff. — cfr, Oct 23 '15 at 22:45
It doesn't seem to be a problem with titlesec, as I tried a code without the package and got same error. From here: http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/234551/75648 — G. Bay, Oct 24 '15 at 01:43
It helps if you paste the exact error message into your question rather than just saying e.g. that something is undefined. The error message says what and, if you're lucky, where. — cfr, Oct 24 '15 at 03:16
It is caused by the custom format you are applying to chapters with titlesec. Simply loading titlesec is fine. But \titleformat{\chapter} {\fontfamily{phv}\selectfont\bfseries\LARGE} {\MakeUppercase{\thechapter}}{15pt}{} is not. — cfr, Oct 24 '15 at 03:25

Trold · Accepted Answer · 2015-10-24T20:20:26.107

The problem seems to be that something is writing a redefinition of \cftchapindent to the very long \cftlastnumwidth at the start of the TOC. This happens even without using \titleformat, but absent use of titleformat another redefinition of cftchapindent back to reasonable lengths follows the first. I have looked and looked and cannot begin to guess where either of these lines are coming from, but in any case you can set the lengths right again by putting in yet a third redefinition which puts cftchapterindent back as it should be, like so:

\tableofcontents*
\addtocontents{toc}{\setlength  {\cftchapterindent }{0em} \setlength  {\cftchapternumwidth }{\cftlastnumwidth }}

Your solution is better, more efficient since it uses only one line vs. 3 of mine, and it does fix the extra-space. Many Thanks! :) — G. Bay, Oct 25 '15 at 12:26

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:34

I still couldn't make titlesec work without having this extra space issue. However after further reading and searching (mostly encouraged by cfr) on memoir manual and Memoir Chapter Styles I found a way to workaround and display results as I need it. Of course, for section style I still use titlesec.

After looking at this answer by Medina, I realize it could be all done really simply by creating my own memoir chapter style. My code, as it might be useful to someone is the following:

\newcommand*\varhrulefill[1][0.4pt]{\leavevmode\leaders\hrule height#1\hfill\kern0pt}
\renewcommand*{\chapnumfont}{\fontfamily{phv}\selectfont\LARGE\bfseries}
\renewcommand*{\chaptitlefont}{\fontfamily{phv}\selectfont\LARGE\bfseries}

\renewcommand*{\afterchaptertitle}{\vskip 1em \varhrulefill[0.35cm]\vskip\afterchapskip}

The vhrulefill is, again from Medina.

If I was to define the style at the preamble, then my lists and even ToC title would have the rule, which is not what I wanted.

If I define the style with \makechapterstyle and then "load" it only after ToC, it seems to work, but then again I get the same odd extra spacing at chapters ToC. Don't know why.

To solve this I simply pasted the above code in the preamble of my textual file, witch goes after ToC. I have no idea how this would be done in a single-file document, any suggestions please leave a comment.

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 04 '16 at 19:08

If you really want the TOC to look like your image (which is weird, but anyway), you should stick with what the class already provides you:

\documentclass[a5paper]{abntex2}
%\setboolean{ABNTEXupperchapter}{false}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}        
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
%\usepackage[brazil]{babel} &don't need this, already default
%\selectlanguage{brazil} &don't need this, already default
\usepackage{xcolor}

\usepackage{hyperref} 
\hypersetup{
  colorlinks   = {true}, %Colours links instead of ugly boxes
  urlcolor     = {black}, %Colour for external hyperlinks
  linkcolor    = {black}, %Colour of internal links
  citecolor   = {black} %Colour of citations
}

\renewcommand{\ABNTEXchapterfont}{\fontfamily{phv}\selectfont\bfseries}
\renewcommand{\ABNTEXsectionfont}{\fontfamily{fvs}\selectfont\bfseries} %Bera Sans? Really?
%\newcommand{\ABNTEXsectionfontsize}{\Large}}{}
\renewcommand{\cftchapterfont}{\bfseries}
\renewcommand{\cftsubsubsectionfont}{\normalfont}
\renewcommand{\cftsubsectionfont}{\bfseries}
\renewcommand{\cftsubsubsectionfont}{\normalfont}
\setlength{\cftbeforechapterskip}{0pt}

\begin{document}

\tableofcontents*

\chapter{Introdução}
\section{Objetivos}
\subsection{Objetivos gerais}
\subsection{Objetivos específicos}

\chapter{Exposição do tema}
\section{Tema Geral}
\subsection{Tema específico}

\end{document}

I don't know why you use Bera Sans for all sectional entries below chapter.

If you had read the documentation, you'd have noticed section 6.1: \ABNTEXchapterfont, and \ABNTEXchapterfontsize, which you can change.

Other macros like \cftchapterfont com from memoir. (See chapter 9.)

I agree with cfr -- if you want something in all caps, you'd better write it in all caps.

ToC Chapter alignment conflict with titlesec

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