Mini Table of Content \minitoc drove itself crazy (i was on board) … how to fix?

Question

I am using minitoc.

In the main file,

\usepackage[english,tight]{minitoc} 

... 

...


\begin{document}
\dominitoc
\frontmatter 
...
...
\input(myChapter_one)

And at each chapter (separate file)

\chapter{Chapter name}

\minitoc


...

...

It was working fine until today. Now, what I can see, for example in chapter 5, minitoc is not synchronized, it says chapter 4 like, 4.1.2 .. ..4.2....

AND,

There is no minitoc on chapter One! [\minitoc command is still on the chapter one too!]

Can you please give me some clues?

Answer 1

It looks like the important thing missing from your document is either \tableofcontents or \faketableofcontents.

Without one of these, the minitoc package will not update the \jobname.mtc* files appropriately. From your description, it sounds like the minitoc package is working from 'old' \jobname.mtc* because you are seeing chapter 4's minitoc in chapter 5.

Here is MWE

\documentclass{report}
\usepackage{minitoc}

\begin{document}

\dominitoc
\faketableofcontents    % need either this line 
%\tableofcontents       % or this one for minitoc to work

\include{chapter1}

\end{document}

If this doesn't help, please post more details in your question.