Peter Baumgartner <peter.baumgartner <at> donau-uni.ac.at> writes:
In the meanwhile I found the solution in an German TeX forum. <http://mrunix.de/forums/showthread.php?t=65804> I will share it here if someone else has the same problem: The tight option of the package shorttoc does not work if \parskip is set. There are several option to solve the problem: 1.) use the package tocstyle from the KOMA-Script package \usepackage{tocstyle} ... \cleardoublepage \addchap*{Table of Contents (Summary)} \showtoc [\value {tocdepth}=0]{toc} %adapt this value to your needs be aware that tocstyle is still experimental (alpha version). 2.) Without tocstyle: Generate once a .toc file with \tableofcontents{} and than put the following code into your page where the short version of your table of contents should appear: \cleardoublepage \addchap{Table of Contents (Summary)} \begingroup \makeatletter \...@tocdepth=0 %adapt this value to your needs \setlength{\parskip}...@}% \setlength{\parindent}...@}% \setlength{\parfillskip}...@\@plus 1fil}% \csname tocbasic@@bef...@hook\endcsname \csname t...@toc@bef...@hook\endcsname \input{\jobname.toc}% \csname t...@toc@af...@hook\endcsname \csname tocbasic@@af...@hook\endcsname \endgroup 3.) I used the occurrence of this problem to learn more about typographical reasons why paragraph indentation is much better than separation. So I could stick with shorttoc ...
