[texhax] table of contents with more than 99 entries

[Robin Fairbairns]

Jan Chorowski writess:

> I've got a problem with generation of a table of contents: in the
> article class, I have about 120 different sections. How can I tell
> latex, to reserve space for three digits for the section number (now
> I get some overfull hbox warnings and the last digit is mixed with
> the first character of the section name- it looks very ugly). 

the tocloft package provides the means of doing this.  read the
documentation (i don't remember it well enough to repeat it off the
top of my head).