mintoc: triple spacing between lines on second page

[jadebarclay]

One chapter has a long TOC, and the minitoc goes onto the second page. The spacing is perfect on the first page, then the minitoc continues with enormous spaces between lines.

How can I fix the minitoc spacing issue, when it's only different on the second page? Also, how can you insert a manual page break inside a long minitoc like this?

Thanks!

[ulyngs]

Can you give a reproducible example and a couple of screenshots, then I'll have a look? :)

[jadebarclay]

Thank you. I've made almost no changes to the raw oxforddown template. Here goes....

output:
  #bookdown::html_document2: default
  #bookdown::word_document2: default
  bookdown::pdf_document2:
    template: templates/brief_template.tex
    citation_package: biblatex
bib-humanities: true
documentclass: book
#bibliography: [bibliography/references.bib, bibliography/additional-references.bib]
---
# Results {#results}
\chaptermark{Results}
\minitoc <!-- this will include a mini table of contents-->

## Descriptive Stats {#descr}
.
.
.

[jadebarclay]

What I'm trying to do:

1. Single line spacing on the second page
2. Insert a manual page break before item 3.6 (optional, but preferred)

I've been toying with splitting the content of chapter 3 into two chapters to work around this. But I'd really rather not do that! Thanks so much for looking into this :)

[ulyngs]

Can you provide me some raw markdown content I can copy-paste into a chapter to reproduce this issue myself? :)

[jadebarclay]

Here's the whole 03-results.Rmd

---
output:
  #bookdown::html_document2: default
  #bookdown::word_document2: default
  bookdown::pdf_document2:
    template: templates/brief_template.tex
    citation_package: biblatex
bib-humanities: true
documentclass: book
#bibliography: [bibliography/references.bib, bibliography/additional-references.bib]
---
# Results {#results}
\chaptermark{Results}
\minitoc <!-- this will include a mini table of contents-->

## Descriptive Stats {#descr}

#### Entire Sample

#### Patient Sample

#### Clinican Sample

#### Patient Subgroups

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[ulyngs]

Thanks!

Do you get the issue both when compiling the entire thesis and when you knit a single chapter?

[jadebarclay]

I haven't tried to knit a single chapter... let me check

[ulyngs]

Ah wait I think just knitting a single chapter doesn't include a minitoc, nevermind!

[jadebarclay]

Yeah, I can't get the minitoc to show up on a single chapter. If I add the scripts_and_filters/knit-functions.R to yaml/knit, it just makes the entire thesis.

[ulyngs]

Is there a particular need for you to only have the headings in there and nothing else?

The issue disappears for me when I start filling in even just some minimal content to make the situation a bit more realistic, like so:

---
output:
  #bookdown::html_document2: default
  #bookdown::word_document2: default
  bookdown::pdf_document2:
    template: templates/brief_template.tex
    citation_package: biblatex
bib-humanities: true
documentclass: book
#bibliography: [bibliography/references.bib, bibliography/additional-references.bib]
---

# Results {#results}
\minitoc <!-- this will include a mini table of contents-->

Here's an intro.
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## Descriptive Stats {#descr}

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### Entire Sample

### Patient Sample

### Clinican Sample

### Patient Subgroups

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[jadebarclay]

That worked! I was just setting up the TOC before writing it. :) Thanks so much 🎉

Any tips for setting the manual page break inside the minitoc?

[ulyngs]

it's certainly possible, but I haven't had the need to do this myself: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/587801/how-to-insert-a-page-break-in-a-minitoc-but-not-in-toc

[ulyngs]

I'm gonna close this for now; if you later on face a practical need to insert a line break in the minitoc and can't get the online latex instructions to work with oxforddown, just open a new issue :)