How do I add dots in TOC?

Question

I want to add dots that would fill the space from section/subsection name to the page number in TOC. How do I do that?

Answer 1

Try the tocloft package with something like

\usepackage{tocloft}
\renewcommand{\cftsecleader}{\cftdotfill{\cftdotsep}}

in case you're using the article class (See the package documentation for other classes).

As an illustration, let's try it with the sample2e.tex file; following pdflatex sample2e (two times), we got

Answer 2

One way of doing this is to use the memoir class, where this is the default behaviour.

Memoir incorporates an extensive set of functions borged from other useful packages; I use it as my day-to-day general-purpose style for almost everything except presentations.