{table-of-contents} is about the creation or modification of the Table of Contents or similar listings like List of Figures and List of Tables as well as custom lists. Popular packages are {tocloft}, {titletoc}, and {minitoc}.
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How to modify the indentation before sectioning titles in the table of contents?
I'm preparing a document using the book class. In the table of contents, the indentation before the subsection title is too long. How to reduce it?
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List sections of chapter at beginning of that chapter
How can one have a mini table of contents for the current chapter appear just after the chapter name listing all sections of that chapter?
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How can I display a short chapter name in the header and a long chapter name in the ToC?
I am writing a book and one of my chapter has a very long title. As it can't be displayed correctly on the top of even pages, I provide a "short title name" via the \chapter[short title]{long title} ...
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How to remove the self-reference of the ToC from the ToC?
I'm having a very weird problem. The following example should illustrate it quite right.
\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{memoir}
\begin{document}
\frontmatter
\tableofcontents
\clearpage
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How to make clickable links and cross-references in pdfs produced by LaTeX?
How can I make things link url references, my index, table of contents, and cross references clickable links in documents produced by LaTeX? I generally use pdflatex to produce my documents.
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Pretty Table of Contents
I would like to know if it's possible to have a Table of Contents looking like the following, where the number of the page is the big number on the left.
The sections could look like in the ...
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Table of Contents with additional description of entries
I would like to achieve table of contents with additional description for chapters/sections (see screenshot). What way would you go to achieve this? I'm wondering if it is possible to wrap the ...
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How to show subsections and subsubsections in TOC?
So we have something like:
\documentclass[english]{article}
\setcounter{secnumdepth}{2}
\setcounter{tocdepth}{2}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{tocloft}
\usepackage{xstring}
\usepackage{titlesec}
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TOC Text - numbers alignment
I am using \tableofcontents to create TOC in my document. however it is appearing as shown in the image. As the numbers increase the gap between the number and text is reducing.
Thanks for your ...
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Adding word 'Table' before each entry in list of tables
I need to prefix each entry in list of tables and figures with appropriate text - table or figure for each. Also I need to remove chapter numbers from list, because tables are numbered consequently ...
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Adding a per-chapter image along with group of entries in ToC
Friends, I have an old analytic geometry book with an unusual table of contents: for every group of entries based on the current chapter, there is an image along with it. Well, let me show some actual ...
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Incorrect bookmarks and page number in table of contents
I have problem with table of contents and with bookmarks. In pdf file
table of contents shows wrong page number of Introduction and Bibliography,
Bookmarks: introduction and bibliography don't bring ...
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How to change the title of ToC?
I need to change default title of ToC. Is it possible with titlesec package?
Here is my MWE:
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{titlesec}
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Minitoc and memoir
I read this question about minitoc but I can't make it work with memoir. Is there an known incompatibility between these two ?
Is it somehow possible to make it work ?
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How do I get \chaptername to appear in the table of contents?
In my tex file I have changed the chapter name from 'Chapter' to 'Day', using:
\renewcommand \chaptername {Day}
But when I generate a table of contents it only shows '1' and not 'Day 1'. How do I ...
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How can I force ToC not to end with a chapter?
So I am writing a programming book and I decided to include \sections in the ToC as well (see picture below). The problem I am having is that I have ugliness where \chapter is the last item on the ...
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Section added by \addcontentsline on the wrong page
I am adding a section with the bibliography references by using \addcontentsline in order to add a link to the table of contents. Unfortunately the link in the table of contents links to a wrong page, ...
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First chapter appearing before first line in table of contents
I have a table of contents in my memoir book. I want there to be one line for each chapter, in addition to headings for each set of similar chapters.
For some reason, the line for the first chapter ...
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Index is incorrectly listed in the table of contents
I have a large document with an index compiled through makeindex, and is included in my source .tex as follows:
\cleardoublepage
\phantomsection
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Index}
\printindex
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Centering \section* and adding them to the ToC
I'm using LaTeX and the book class and have one problem:
I want that my starred sections (only starred sections) appear in the center of the pages instead of the left side of the pages and also these ...
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Insert key words & key phrases into toc
To make the structure of documents (here: my PhD-thesis) comprehensible straight from the ToC, I would like to insert some key words or key phrases in each element of the ToC. I saw this device in a ...
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Creating a separate list of appendices with tocloft
I'm very sorry but I have to ask for urgent help as I could not make sense of the individual questions I asked previously.
I'm required a separate list of appendices, i.e. the appendix is not to show ...
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Help formatting table of contents, left margin numbers
Hello I am trying to get rid of some of the numbers on the left side of the table of contents entries. I am using the article class and I would like to eliminate numbers left of "sections" but not ...
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Bibliography in table of contents
\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
\include{chapter1}
\bibliographystyle{plain}
\bibliography{biblio}
\end{document}
The bibliography does not appear in the table of contents, have you an ...
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Hyperref within hyperref
I'm using the hyperref package in LaTeX. In the compiled PDF, in the table of contents (TOC), I correctly get all the links to the corresponding chapters and sections.
There is only one chapter which ...
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Custom list of hypotheses in table of contents format
The Context:
I am writing a multi-chapter scientific report with many numbered hypotheses.
I have created a custom hypothesis environment in the preamble:
\newtheorem{hypothesis}{Hypothesis}[chapter]
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How to remove double “Contents” heading generated by memoir? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to remove the self-reference of the ToC from the ToC?
I am using memoir with the article setting. For some reason my table of contents has a double "Contents" ...
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Hiding the “Table of Contents” page from Table of Contents
I'm using the memoir class, and it adds the Table of Contents page to the TOC. It is... well... pretty redundant...
Any quick way to eliminate this?
\documentclass{memoir}
\begin{document}
...
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How to change the line spacing in my list of figures?
I am using the book documentclass and have a list of figures. After much trouble I noticed that there is a blank line to separate figures that are in different chapters, but not if they are within the ...
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Roman numerals become “too wide” in table of contents
Following minimal document:
\documentclass{report}
\begin{document}
\renewcommand*\thechapter{\Roman{chapter}}
\tableofcontents
\setcounter{chapter}{6} % Problem starts at chapter 7
\chapter{Seven}
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Adding numberless chapters to the table of contents
How do I include a chapter reference within the table of contents without giving it a chapter number? I am using the report document class.
Normally, I would create a chapter as follows:
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Table of contents with page style empty
How can I make produce a table of contents by \tableofcontents with page style empty?
It doesn't work with \thispagestyle{empty} or \pagestyle{empty}.
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Chemcompound package : how to avoid the listoffigures scan ?
Another chemcompounds package related question. Also maybe related to my first question relative to chemcompound and subfloat comportement here
So my question is how to avoid chemcompounds to scan ...
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Contents in PDF bookmarks
I am using KOMA-Script (scrreprt) and hyperref.
The PDF bookmarks are generated nicely from the table of contents, but I would like an extra Contents bookmark to point to the table of contents itself ...
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How to customize the table of contents using TikZ?
Are you aware of tentatives to customize the table of contents with TikZ in LaTeX?
I'm thinking of fancy graphical objects (coloured ovals, squares, rectangles, etc) coming with the usual terms ...
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Table of Equations
I've looked around for this, and haven't been able to find a satisfactory answer; How would one go about producing (automatically) a table of equations, just a numbered list of used equations, ...
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\tableofcontents from \part commands in Beamer
I am not able to generate the table of contents made of all the parts (declared by \part command) of my Beamer presentation. While sections of each part are listed easily, there is no hint in the ...
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Adding unnumbered sections to TOC
I have many unnumbered sections in my report (more than 100), all created with:
\section*{section name}
I want to find an way to easily add all them to the TOC (specifically to a minitoc), since I ...
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Remove “chapter #” from the chapter title but keep chapter number in the table of contents
I am using report document class.
I want to remove word "Chapter" and chapter number from chapter title, so when new chapter starts I will get only chapter title. I can do it using:
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Table of Contents with Chapter
I'm attempting to modify the Table of Contents in my document. Currently, chapter one in my document is listed as
1 Introduction
What I would like to see is
Chapter 1 Introduction
Seems ...
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Table of contents without title
I would like to have two-columned table of contents:
\begin{multicols}{2}
\tableofcontents
\end{multicols}
But it looks wierd if I have a title included in two columns - second ...
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Using an image as a table
I have an image containing tabular data and would not like to convert this to a real table. What I do want is for this image to have a proper caption and be included in the listoftables.
Is it ...
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Add colors that depend on chapters to the TOC
I'would like to add different colors in my TOC, depending on the chapter. I've a color for the header, section subsection of each chapter (red chapter one, blue chapter two etc...). With this code I ...
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List of Appendices
My document guidelines for a multi-chapter thesis requires that any appendices be pulled out of the TOC and dropped into a separate List Of Appendices (LOA). The latex package put together for my ...
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ToC numbering problem
My LaTeX document is acting strangely. Here is a simplified version of it:
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
\newpage
\addcontentsline{toc}{part}{A Part of My Document}
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Is there any way to produce List of frames with beamer?
There is a way to make TOC using \tableofcontents, but there are only sections and subsections.
How can I get list of all frames without using sectioning?
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List of Figures - how to add caption label
I'm using the caption package.
In the List-Of-Figures I get only the numbers, but I also want to have the prefix.
It currently looks like that:
List of Figures
1 Caption of Figure 1........1
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List of Figures/Tables - eliminate dots?
I need to eliminate the dots that appear in \listoffigures and \listoftables results - is there an easy way to do that?
EDIT:
I think I need to actually eliminate the dots. Modifying @dotsep via
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Formatting the title of the TOC
I would like for example to have a bold Arial like font and a red color for the title of the table of contents, and also I would like to change this title to for example "Another title for the table ...
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Remove newpage after \tableofcontents, \listoffigures, etc. in book class
When using a documentclass of book, it seems there is a \newpage inserted after the \tableofcontents and \listoffigures. How can I suppress this? In articles, the following works. How can I get this ...
