Chapters and Table of Contents are formatted differently in scrreprt

Question

I am writing a thesis using scrreprt from KOMA-script.

I used the method proposed in that post to adjust the spacing before the chapter headings:

Space before chapters and contents

That is, I use the commands:

% Format chapter headings
\addtokomafont{disposition}{\mytitlefont}
\renewcommand*{\chapterheadstartvskip}{\vskip-40pt}

However, for some reason this does not modify the spacing before the Table of Contents headings. It only modifies the chapters.

Here is my full style file:

% Style file for packages
\ProvidesPackage{style}

% Packages
% Package to set page dimensions and margins
\usepackage[letterpaper, lmargin=1in, rmargin=1in]{geometry}
% Graphics package
\usepackage{graphicx}
% Maths typesetting packages
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{amsbsy}
\usepackage{bm}
% Package to format table of contents, list of figures, and list of table
\usepackage{tocloft}
% Package to format captions
\usepackage{caption}
% Package to format footnotes
\usepackage{scrextend}
% Package to align table columns on decimal point
\usepackage{dcolumn}
% Package to format custom dates
\usepackage{datetime}
% Package for line spacing
\usepackage{setspace}
\onehalfspacing
% Package for citation formatting
\usepackage{cite} 

% Custom fonts
\newcommand{\mytitlefont}{\normalcolor \sffamily \bfseries}
\renewcommand{\familydefault}{\rmdefault}

% Format dates
\newdateformat{monthyeardate}{\monthname[\THEMONTH], \THEYEAR}
\newdateformat{yeardate}{\THEYEAR}

% Format chapter headings
\addtokomafont{disposition}{\mytitlefont}
\renewcommand*{\chapterheadstartvskip}{\vskip-40pt}

% Format table of contents, list of figures, and list of tables
\renewcommand{\listfigurename}{Figures} 
\renewcommand{\listtablename}{Tables}
\renewcommand{\cftfignumwidth}{6em}
\renewcommand{\cftfigpresnum}{\mytitlefont Figure }
\renewcommand{\cfttabnumwidth}{6em}
\renewcommand{\cfttabpresnum}{\mytitlefont Table }

% Format captions
\captionsetup{format=plain}
\addtokomafont{caption}{\small}
\addtokomafont{captionlabel}{\small\mytitlefont}

% Package to format footnotes
\deffootnote[1.5em]{1.5em}{1em}{\thefootnotemark.\space}

Now everyone who asks this question seems to be redirected back to the link mentioned above. But for me it does not affect the ToC at all. Only the Chapters. Anyone can see a reason?

Here is the start of the main tex file for good measure:

% Write the thesis in report format
\documentclass[12pt,letterpaper]{scrreprt}

% Insert packages
\usepackage{style}
\usepackage[hidelinks]{hyperref}

% Insert preamble
\input{./tex/preamble}

% Begin the thesis
\begin{document}

% Insert title
\input{./tex/title}

% Insert epigraph
\pagenumbering{gobble}
\input{./tex/epigraph}

% Insert abstract in english
\pagenumbering{gobble}
\input{./tex/abstract_en}

% Insert abstract in french
\pagenumbering{gobble}
\input{./tex/abstract_fr}

% Change the page numbering to roman
\pagenumbering{roman}

% Insert the preface
\clearpage
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Preface}
\input{./tex/preface}

% Insert the acknowledgments
\clearpage
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Acknowledgments}
\input{./tex/acknowledgments}

% Insert table of contents, figures, and tables
\tableofcontents
\listoffigures

Ben

Answer 1

Package tocloft breaks some features of KOMA-Script. So do not use this package with a KOMA-Script class.

The following suggestion needs KOMA-Script version 3.20 or newer (current is 3.22):

\documentclass[
  12pt,
  letterpaper,
  listof=entryprefix
]{scrreprt}[2016/05/10]

\usepackage[lmargin=1in, rmargin=1in]{geometry}
\usepackage{setspace}
\onehalfspacing
\renewcommand*{\chapterheadstartvskip}{\vspace*{-40pt}}

% Format lists without an additional package
\renewcommand{\listfigurename}{Figures} 
\renewcommand{\listtablename}{Tables}
\newcommand\listentrynumber[1]{{\usekomafont{disposition}{#1}}}
\DeclareTOCStyleEntry[entrynumberformat=\listentrynumber]{tocline}{table}% needs version 3.20
\DeclareTOCStyleEntry[entrynumberformat=\listentrynumber]{tocline}{figure}% needs version 3.20

% Format captions without an additional package
\setcapindent{0pt}
\addtokomafont{caption}{\small}
\addtokomafont{captionlabel}{\usekomafont{disposition}}

\deffootnote[1.5em]{1.5em}{1em}{\thefootnotemark.\space}

\usepackage[hidelinks]{hyperref}
\usepackage{blindtext}% for dummy text
\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
\listoftables
\chapter{A chapter}
\captionof{table}{A table}
\captionof{table}{\blindtext}
\end{document}

Additional remarks:

Package scrextend gives the possibility to use some KOMA-Script features with other classes. So do not load this package with a KOMA-Script.

There is no need to load package caption to change the format of the captions like in your code.

Note that

\renewcommand*{\chapterheadstartvskip}{\vspace*{-40pt}}

shifts the chapter title out of the text area. Maybe you want to use

\RedeclareSectionCommand[beforeskip=-1sp]{chapter}

instead. You can use option showframe of package geometry to visualize the page layout.

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If you really want/have to use package tocloft then load this package with option titles:

\usepackage[titles]{tocloft}