Cfrgtkky

Am fightning for space in my thesis ;)

Have already been able to remove vertical space between chapter breaks in TOC, but trying to do the same thing with LoF and LoT

At present I am using the tocloft package. Using many of the custom spacings in that package I managed to play around with the TOC to my liking

However am not having the same success with the LoF and LoT. Found a bunch of solutions on this stack exchange that worked for other people but so far haven't worked for me.

Here's the preamble that I am using right now:
(note there are a couple things commented out, because I thought they did nothing when I had the commands)

documentclass[10pt, letterpaper, oneside]{book}



renewcommand{baselinestretch}{1.5} 





% ####################### PACKAGES TO USE

usepackage{amsmath} % for equation labelling

usepackage{amssymb} % for more fancy math symbols

usepackage[font=footnotesize, labelfont=bf]{caption} % make captions smaller text and make them BOLD 

usepackage[font=scriptsize,labelfont=bf]{caption}

%captionsetup{font=scriptsize}

usepackage[usenames,dvipsnames]{color} % for colOUred text (stupid american spelling...)

usepackage{enumitem} % to control some lengths in itemized lists

usepackage{etoolbox}  % various hacks, spacing stuff included

usepackage{fancyhdr} % for headers on each page (and customization of them)

usepackage[top=1 in, bottom=1 in, left=1 in, right=1 in]{geometry} % edit individual margins

usepackage{graphicx} % for figures in general

usepackage{hyperref} % for "clickable" links to figures/refs/(etc.)

usepackage{lastpage} % for page __ of __

usepackage{multicol} % for multiple column environments (in equations and tables)

usepackage{multirow} % for multiple row environments (in equations and tables)

usepackage{mdwlist}  % tighter packed bulleted lists

usepackage[sort&compress,numbers]{natbib} % for getting rid of extra space in references section 

usepackage{setspace} % for line spacing between lines and also for bibliography

usepackage{siunitx} % for scientific units (add [scientific-notation=true] for scientific notation always)

usepackage{tabularx} % to try and get variable-spacing columns

usepackage{tabu}  % for some fancy table stuff (now with like thicker lines!!)

usepackage{titlesec}  % for some heading customization (use [compact] option to get rid of white space after section headings)

usepackage{tocloft} % some TOC customization

usepackage{threeparttable}

usepackage{arydshln} % provides dashed lines in tables and arrays







titleformat{chapter}[display] {normalfonthugebfseries}{chaptertitlename thechapter}{10pt}{huge}   

titlespacing*{chapter}{0pt}{-25pt}{30pt}



% TOC/LOF/LOT spacing changes (uses tocloft package)

setlength{cftbeforechapskip}{0.5 em} % space between chapters in TOC only

setlength{cftbeforetoctitleskip}{-1em} % space before the TOC title

setlength{cftaftertoctitleskip}{2em} % space after TOC title



%setlength{cftbeforefigskip}{0.5 em}

setlength{cftbeforeloftitleskip}{-1 em} % space before the LoF title

setlength{cftafterloftitleskip}{2 em} % space after the LoF title



setlength{cftbeforelottitleskip}{-1 em} % space before the LoT title 

setlength{cftafterlottitleskip}{2 em} % space after the LoT title







makeatletter

% patchcmd{<cmd>}{<search>}{<replace>}{<succes>}{<failure>}

patchcmd{@chapter}{addtocontents{lof}{protectaddvspace{10p@}}}{}{}{}% LoF

addtocontents{toc}{protectrenewcommand*protectaddvspace[1]{}}

%patchcmd{@chapter}{addtocontents{lot}{protectaddvspace{2p@}}}{}{}{}% LoT

makeatother





setlength{parindent}{2.5em} % first line indent size

setlist[itemize]{leftmargin=*}

setlist[enumerate]{leftmargin=*}







graphicspath

{

    {./img/}

    {./img/chapter1/}

    {./img/chapter2/}

    {./img/chapter3and4/} % chapters 3 and 4 were once one chapter

    {./img/chapter5/}

    {./img/chapter6/}

    {./img/chapter7/}

    {./img/chapter8/}

    {./img/chapter9/}

}







hypersetup

{

    colorlinks = true,

    citecolor = black,

    linkcolor = blue, % link colour for figure, equation, + table refs

    urlcolor = black, % link colour for websites (mainly in citations)

}





makeatletter

patchcmd{@chapter}{addtocontents{lof}{protectaddvspace{10p@}}}{}{}{}% LoF

addtocontents{toc}{protectrenewcommand*protectaddvspace[1]{}}

defttl@tocsep{}

defbstctlcite{@ifnextchar[{@bstctlcite}{@bstctlcite[@auxout]}}

def@bstctlcite[#1]#2{@bsphack

    @for@citeb:=#2do{%

        edef@citeb{expandafter@firstofone@citeb}%

        if@fileswimmediatewritecsname #1endcsname{stringcitation{@citeb}}fi}%

    @esphack}

makeatother 





renewcommandchaptermark[1]{markboth{textsc{Chapter thechapter: #1}}{}}

fancyhf{}

fancyhead[L]{leftmark}

renewcommandheadrulewidth{0pt}% suppress the header rule

%fancyfoot[C]{thepage}

fancyhead[R]{thepage}





renewcommand{bibname}{References} % ("biblography" is kinda boring)

renewcommand{contentsname}{Table of Contents}

If you would use the memoir (covers the book class) class instead of book then the answer is simple. In the preamble put:

renewcommand{insertchapterspace}{}

which revises the chapter macro to put no additional spaces into the LOF and ToC.

In your MWE you have a line along the lines of

patchcmd{@chapter}{addtocontents{lof}{protectaddvspace{10p@}}}{}{}{}

Why do you have two copies of this?

Perhaps if you changed this to ...addvspace{0p@}... like

patchcmd{@chapter}{addtocontents{lof}{protectaddvspace{0p@}}}{}{}{}

you would get what you want in the LoF.

For the ToC a similar macro, replacing {lof} by {lot}.