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I have some sections without a number, but which I would like to have with a dotted line. However they automatically get the indentation of a section as that is globally defined with \tableofcontents. Is it possible to remove the indentation before the "1 Context" but uphold the indentation afterwards?

\documentclass[11pt]{report} ... \begin{document} \section*{Inhoudsopgave} \makeatletter \@starttoc{toc} \makeatother \section*{Inleiding} \addcontentsline{toc}{section}{\protect\numberline{}Inleiding}% ... text ... \chapter{Context} ... \end{document}

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  • \usepackage{tocloft} will give a clue. Whether this will work with one of the \cftXindent commands depends on the class, however. Please post a working example, not just a screen shot of the desired outcome Commented Feb 24, 2017 at 13:38
  • I haven't tried tocloft yet as I pressumed this was possible without extra packages. I have added my example which generates this. Commented Feb 24, 2017 at 13:49
  • Hm, why \@starttoc{toc} instead of \tableofcontents? Commented Feb 24, 2017 at 13:51
  • The title was too big, but I fixed it now and reapplied "\tableofcontents" Commented Feb 24, 2017 at 14:05

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The length \cftsecindent with tocloft package controls the indentation of sections. It should be written to the ToC itself and wrapping a group around this, so \addtocontents{toc}{\begingroup....}...\addtocontent{toc}{\endgroup} in order to limits its range only to the first unnumbered sections.

The \protect commands are necessary since \setlength is fragile and will break during the writing process.

Side remark: The tocloft package defines a lot of \cftX.... commands where X is either chap, sec, subsec etc. Please see the documentation of tocloft. 

\documentclass{book} \usepackage[dutch]{babel} \usepackage{tocloft} \begin{document} \tableofcontents \addtocontents{toc}{\begingroup\protect\setlength{\protect\cftsecindent}{-\leftmargin}} \section*{Inleiding} \addcontentsline{toc}{section}{\protect\numberline{}Inleiding}% \section*{Voorword} \addcontentsline{toc}{section}{\protect\numberline{}Voorword} \addtocontents{toc}{\endgroup} \clearpage \chapter{Context} \section{Het bedrijf} \end{document}

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  • @user1213904: You're welcome! Happy TeXing. Commented Feb 24, 2017 at 14:07

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