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I am trying to modify the title of table of content and make every title of sections uppercase. But strange compilation errors occurred.

The .tex file looks like the following one:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{szx}
\begin{document}
    \section*{fgh}
        vbn
    \tableofcontents
    \section{zxc}
        qwe
\end{document}

And I have tried 3 different szx.sty file, neither of them works.

The first one uses xparse package:

\ProvidesPackage{szx}

\usepackage{xparse}
\RequirePackage{titlecaps}

\let\@szx@oldsection\section
\newcommand{\@szx@sectionstar}[1]{\@szx@oldsection*{\titlecap{#1}}}
\newcommand{\@szx@section}[1]{\@szx@oldsection{\titlecap{#1}}}
\RenewDocumentCommand{\section}{s}{\IfBooleanTF{#1}{\@szx@sectionstar}{\@szx@section}}

\let\@szx@TocName\contentsname
\renewcommand*{\contentsname}{\centering{\@szx@TocName}}

The second one uses \DeclareRobustCommand:

\ProvidesPackage{szx}

\RequirePackage{titlecaps}

\let\@szx@oldsection\section
\DeclareRobustCommand{\@szx@sectionstar}[1]{\@szx@oldsection*{\titlecap{#1}}}
\DeclareRobustCommand{\@szx@section}[1]{\@szx@oldsection{\titlecap{#1}}}
\DeclareRobustCommand{\section}{\@ifstar\@szx@sectionstar\@szx@section}

\let\@szx@TocName\contentsname
\DeclareRobustCommand*{\contentsname}{\centering{\@szx@TocName}}

The last one uses makerobust package:

\ProvidesPackage{szx}

\RequirePackage{makerobust}
\RequirePackage{titlecaps}

\let\@szx@oldsection\section
\newcommand{\@szx@sectionstar}[1]{\@szx@oldsection*{\titlecap{#1}}}
\newcommand{\@szx@section}[1]{\@szx@oldsection{\titlecap{#1}}}
\MakeRobustCommand{\@szx@sectionstar}
\MakeRobustCommand{\@szx@section}
\renewcommand{\section}{\@ifstar\@szx@sectionstar\@szx@section}
\MakeRobustCommand{\section}

\let\@szx@TocName\contentsname
\renewcommand*{\contentsname}{\centering{\@szx@TocName}}
\MakeRobustCommand{\contentsname}

The error messages were the same and looks like:

Use of \titlecap doesn't match its definition. \tableofcontents

Argument of \@firstoftwo has an extra }. \tableofcontents

Paragraph ended before \@firstoftwo was complete. \tableofcontents

Something's wrong--perhaps a missing \item. \tableofcontents

Undefined control sequence. \tableofcontents

Illegal parameter number in definition of \the@@@string. \tableofcontents

Undefined control sequence. \tableofcontents

Incomplete \iffalse; all text was ignored after line 12.

Mr. Ree
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    All definitions are wrong, as they no longer allow an optional argument to \section. Using a formatting command in the code for \contentsname is definitely a bad idea. – egreg Nov 04 '16 at 09:07
  • @egreg Could you help me centering the caption of table of content while all section titles are capitalized? – Mr. Ree Nov 04 '16 at 09:17
  • @egreg Thanks, you inspired me to re-search the solutions instead of writing my own blindly. – Mr. Ree Nov 04 '16 at 09:33

2 Answers2

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You need to be a bit more careful in doing those redefinitions.

Moreover the \titlecap command seems to conflict with \centering. In any case, adding formatting instructions to \contentsname is wrong. If you want a capitalized name for the contents, define it explicitly.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{titlecaps}
\usepackage{etoolbox}
\usepackage{xparse}

\let\latexsection\section
\RenewDocumentCommand{\section}{som}{%
  \IfBooleanTF{#1}
    {%
     \latexsection*{\titlecap{#3}}%
    }%
    {
     \IfNoValueTF{#2}
       {%
        \latexsection{\titlecap{#3}}%
       }%
       {%
        \latexsection[\titlecap{#2}]{\titlecap{#3}}%
       }%
    }%
}
\patchcmd{\tableofcontents}
  {\section}
  {\latexsection}
  {}{}
\patchcmd{\tableofcontents}
  {\contentsname}
  {\centering\contentsname}
  {}{}
\makeatother

%% no babel
\renewcommand{\contentsname}{Table of Contents}
%% babel
%\addto\captionsenglish{%
%  \renewcommand{\contentsname}{Table of Contents}%
%}

\begin{document}

\tableofcontents

\section*{fgh fgh, fgh}
vbn

\section{zxc zxc, zxc}
qwe

\section[sh]{zxc zxc, zhc}
qwe

\end{document}

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egreg
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  • Thank you for mentioning \patchcmd, that is a brand new thing to me through all the searches I have done. – Mr. Ree Nov 04 '16 at 11:40
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With @egreg's suggestion, I searched for another way of centering the caption of table of content.

Just replace the re-definition of \contentsname with

\renewcommand*{\contentsname}{\hfill\@szx@TocName\hfill\hfill}

will solve the conflict.

P.S.

To capitalize section title: https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/129682/101988

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