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Using book class, is it possible (if I'm not wrong, not with tocloft) to put page numbers in the left side? It would be something as

  5       Introduction
 19     I Title first chapter
 54    II Title second chapter
107   III Title third chapter

I considered the following tread: Page number before Chapter title in the Table of Contents with memoir, which however is only for memoir class, and the following one: Formatting the title of the TOC, which however is a mixed question about index and particular format. I need "only" to produce the above format for a classical ToC.

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Addendum Here a working code, but only for chapter, not for section:

\documentclass[a4paper]{book} \usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{polyglossia} \setmainlanguage{english}
\usepackage{titletoc} \contentsmargin{0pt}
\titlecontents{chapter}[4pc]
{\contentsmargin{0pt}\makebox[0pt][r]{\thecontentspage
\quad\makebox[30pt][r]{\textsc{\romannumeral
\thecontentslabel\quad}}}} {} {} {}

\begin{document} \tableofcontents

\chapter{Some text some text some text some text some text }

\chapter{Some text some text some text some text some text }

\chapter{Some text some text some text some text some text }

\end{document}

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ADDENDUM 2

Consider this code, whose realization I'm strongly interested in

\documentclass[a4paper]{report} \usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{polyglossia} \setmainlanguage{english}%{italian}
%\PolyglossiaSetup{italian}{indentfirst=false}

\usepackage{titlesec}
\renewcommand{\thechapter}{\scshape\roman{chapter}}
\titleformat{\chapter}[display]  
{\normalfont\fontsize{10pt}{12pt}\selectfont}{\scshape\thechapter}{0pt}{}
%%{\normalfont\fontsize{10pt}{12pt}\selectfont}{\chaptertitlename\space
\thechapter}{11pt}{} \renewcommand{\thesection}{\arabic{section}}
\titleformat{\section}  
{\normalfont\fontsize{10pt}{12pt}\selectfont}{\thesection}{0pt}{}
\titleformat{\subsection}  
{\normalfont\fontsize{10pt}{12pt}\selectfont\itshape}{}{0pt}{}
\titlespacing{\chapter}{0pt}{0pt}{3cm}

\usepackage{titletoc} \contentsmargin{0pt}
\titlecontents{chapter}[4pc]
{\contentsmargin{0pt}\makebox[0pt][r]{\thecontentspage}
\quad\makebox[30pt][r]{\textsc{\romannumeral
\thecontentslabel.\quad}}}} {} {} {}

\usepackage{titletoc} \contentsmargin{0pt}
\titlecontents{section}[4pc]
{\contentsmargin{0pt}\makebox[0pt][r]{\thecontentspage}
\quad\makebox[30pt][r]{\textsc{\romannumeral
\thecontentslabel.\quad}}}} {} {} {}

\begin{document} \tableofcontents

\chapter{Some title 1} Some text some text some text some text some
text

%\section{Some text title a} %Some text some text some text some text
some text

\chapter{Some title 2} Some text some text some text some text some
text

\chapter{Some title 3} Some text some text some text some text some
text

\end{document}

There is a bad interference between titlesec and titletoc, but I'm not able to solve with a correct interaction between these two packages...

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  • How do you plan on handling \sections in the ToC or other lower-level sectioning commands?
    – Werner ♦
    Commented Mar 20, 2014 at 19:10
  • mmm good question... if I've got only chapters, there is no problem. Maybe sections would be inserted in ToC too. Again, if I work with article class, I had to produce the same result only for sections
    – user41063
    Commented Mar 20, 2014 at 19:28
  • It differs greatly whether you want to insert \sections into the ToC in book. If not (with something like \setcounter{tocdepth}{0}), then an alteration to \l@chapter (which is unique in a way) would suffice. So be specific.
    – Werner ♦
    Commented Mar 20, 2014 at 19:32
  • Yes, usually, in book I insert sections too. So it would be useful to have both in ToC
    – user41063
    Commented Mar 20, 2014 at 19:36

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Here's a solution that uses the titletoc package; the important part of the code is

% chapter formatting in toc
\titlecontents{chapter}
[0.0cm]             % left margin
{}                  % above code
{%                  % numbered format
{\llap{\thecontentspage\hspace{.5cm}}\thecontentslabel~}%
}%
{}         % unnumbered format
{}         % filler-page-format, e.g dots

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Here's a complete MWE to play with.

% arara: pdflatex
% arara: pdflatex
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{titlesec}
\usepackage{titletoc}

% chapter formatting in toc
\titlecontents{chapter}
[0.0cm]             % left margin
{}                  % above code
{%                  % numbered format
{\llap{\thecontentspage\hspace{.5cm}}\thecontentslabel~}%
}%
{}         % unnumbered format
{}         % filler-page-format, e.g dots

\begin{document}
\tableofcontents

\chapter{mychapter} 
\section{mysection}
\subsection{mysubsection}
\section{mysection}
\subsection{mysubsection}
\subsection{mysubsection}
\subsection{mysubsection}
\subsection{mysubsection}
\subsection{mysubsection}
\chapter{mychapter} 
\section{mysection}
\subsection{mysubsection}
\section{mysection}
\subsection{mysubsection}
\subsection{mysubsection}
\subsection{mysubsection}
\subsection{mysubsection}
\subsection{mysubsection}
\chapter{mychapter} 
\end{document}
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  • It seems that nobody upvotes good answers today ;-)
    – karlkoeller
    Commented Mar 20, 2014 at 19:58
  • Sorry, I don't understand cmhughes solution, for the page numbers are not on the left, as I asked...
    – user41063
    Commented Mar 20, 2014 at 20:14
  • @user41063 I don't understand- in my example the 3, 5, 7 are the page numbers, and are on the left, as you asked for
    – cmhughes
    Commented Mar 20, 2014 at 21:40
  • Oh yes, u're right! But it's like the code I posted above. The interesting thing would be to have sections too similar to chapters (on the contrary, I'm not interested in having subsection in ToC)
    – user41063
    Commented Mar 20, 2014 at 22:02
  • @user41063 so couldn't you simply copy the code I have posted for chapter and change it to section? to ditch the subsection, use \setcounter{tocdepth}{1}
    – cmhughes
    Commented Mar 20, 2014 at 23:38

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