On 2017-04-24, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote:
> Am 24.04.2017 um 13:51 schrieb PhilipPirrip:
>> On 04/23/2017 08:14 AM, Frederick FN Noronha फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या
>> *فريدريك نورونيا wrote:
>>> Dear all,
>>> Could you kindly help me with a tip on how to insert a
>>> carriage-return/line-break in my table of contents, for a very long
>>> title? I'm using Lyx 2.2.0
>>> The problem text is below (and neither \\ nor \newline works) :
>>> \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{How Goan Identity and India's
>>> Independence \\ Put Britain in a Diplomatic Dilemma}
>>> \addtocontents{toc}{Victor Rangel-Ribeiro \par}
>> Hi Frederick,
>> I don't quite understand why you're using these low-level commands
>> instead of ordinary sectioning ones, but here's the answer:
>> in order for \newline to survive writing into the .toc file, you need
>> to protect it, thus
>> \protect\newline should work (not sure how well).
> What about using a short title in the TOC?
> >insert>short title
Note, that this box generates just an alternative title for the toc
which may actually also be longer or
contain a hard line break :-)
Günter
