Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
My table of contents has entries where the section number goes close to my
section name. For example:
19.10.Operational Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Add these lines to your preamble:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]@dottedtocline{2}{1.5em}{2.8em}}
[EMAIL PROTECTED]@dottedtocline{3}{4.3em}{3.6em}}
You can play a bit with the length units. The last argument is the width
of the number, the second last the indent.
regards Uwe
p.s. More information can be found in the book "The LaTeX companion 2nd
Edition" or the TeX FAQ:
http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?introduction=yes
