classicthesis: second page of toc has different spacing

Question

Hi,

from the attached toc you can probably already see what is wrong with my table of contents. The first page is perfect but somehow I get strange spacing on the second page.

And also, it would be nice if the heading for chapter 4 would be on the second page instead of the first one.

I think this has to do with the combination of classicthesis and scrbook but I am not 100% sure. Do you know what the error might be? I have been googleing it for quite a while with no success.

Thank you,

Roman

And here is also the code to produce the result:

\documentclass[dottedtoc, headinclude, footinclude=true, listof=totoc, bibliography=totoc]{scrbook}
\usepackage[pdfspacing, linedheaders]{classicthesis}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[babel, style=english]{csquotes}

\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{tikz}

\usepackage{tocloft}

\usepackage{todonotes}
\usepackage{xcolor} % Required for specifying custom colors
\usepackage{caption}


\usepackage[
  style=numeric,
  backend=biber
]{biblatex}

\begin{document}
\frontmatter
\pagenumbering{roman}
\input{sections/titlepage}
\pagebreak
\input{sections/abstract}
\input{sections/declaration}
\pagebreak

\tableofcontents
\pagebreak
\pagenumbering{arabic}
\mainmatter
\input{sections/introduction}
\input{sections/stateoftheart}
\input{sections/methods}
\input{sections/results}
\input{sections/conclusion}

\printbibliography
\newpage
\listoffigures
\end{document}

Answer 1

I can't reproduce the issue, but it clearly depends on your wrong usage of \newpage and \pagebreak.

There's no need, in general, to issue such commands: a \chapter command (which is implicit in \tableofcontents and \listoffigures) will by itself issue a safe page break command. Note also that \pagebreak will try to stretch the page so the text preciding \pagebreak sits at the bottom of the page, which is what you see.

There's no need to issue \pagenumbering either, because this is already taken care of by \frontmatter and \mainmatter.

Here's a version that fixes the described glitches.

\documentclass[dottedtoc, headinclude, footinclude=true, listof=totoc, bibliography=totoc]{scrbook}
\usepackage[pdfspacing, linedheaders]{classicthesis}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[babel, style=english]{csquotes}

\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{tikz}

%\usepackage{tocloft} % not needed, already loaded by classicthesis

\usepackage{todonotes}
\usepackage{xcolor} % Required for specifying custom colors
\usepackage{caption}

\usepackage{blindtext} % just for the example


\usepackage[
  style=numeric,
  backend=biber
]{biblatex}

\begin{document}
\frontmatter

\begin{titlepage}
A title
\end{titlepage}

\chapter{Abstract}
Whatever

\chapter{Declaration}
Something

\tableofcontents

\mainmatter

% emulate some chapters
\Blinddocument
\Blinddocument
\Blinddocument
\Blinddocument
\Blinddocument
\Blinddocument
\Blinddocument
\Blinddocument

\printbibliography

\listoffigures

\end{document}