tocloft: \cftparskip ignored when using [titles] option about herries-press HOT 7 CLOSED

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For now, this workaround seems to work:

\makeatletter
\let\OLD@starttoc=\@starttoc
\renewcommand{\@starttoc}[1]{%
    \begingroup%
        \parskip=\cftparskip%
        \OLD@starttoc{#1}%
    \endgroup%
}
\makeatother

(so if someone else is having this issue they can add this after the \usepackage[titles]{tocloft} invocation.)

After inspecting the source code of the package, it seems that the problem is that the \parskip=\cftparskip assignment is done inside the \tableofcontents et al. commands, but these commands are only redefined when the [titles] option is not provided.

(If this workaround looks good enough, it could be added to the package, replacing the \parskip\cftparskip lines.)

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Sorry it has taken me so long to look at this. I'm afraid I don't understand your use case — in the documentation it states:

% The \Lopt{titles} option causes
% the titles of the ToC, LoF, and LoT lists to be typeset using the
% default \LaTeX{} methods. This can be useful, for example, when the
% \Lpack{tocloft} and \Lpack{fncychap} packages are used together and
% the `fancy' chapter styles should be used for the ToC, etc., titles.

So I think the behaviour you're tried to change is intentional.

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Oops, I was reading too quickly — ignore my comment above.

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The documentation suggests that the [titles] option only affects the title of the ToC (i.e. the Table of contents line); my issue was about the formatting of the ToC content, not the title (the lines below the title, e.g. 1. Introduction, 2. Background...).

(PS: I had this issue nearly 2 years ago so I don't quite remember the details)

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