How to remove the self-reference of the ToC from the ToC?

Question

I'm having a very weird problem. The following example should illustrate it quite right.

\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{memoir}    
\begin{document}
\frontmatter
  \tableofcontents
  \clearpage
\mainmatter
  \chapter{Chapter 1}
\end{document}

I've compiled it with xelatex but on the table of contents page, it is referencing the table of contents page as Contents, which is the header of that page as well. It does make sense to me to a certain extend. But I'd still like to know how to get rid of the self-reference.

Answer 1

\KeepFromToc helps in suppressing TOC entries for such \listof commands:

\begin{KeepFromToc}
  \tableofcontents
\end{KeepFromToc}

Answer 2

Thanks to Martin Scharrer, I paid a more attention to the memoir class as the source of the issue.

A closer examination of the memoir README reveals \tableofcontents* as a solution. Seems logical, everything I want to hide gets the star.

Answer 3

I suggest you, if using the tocbibind package:

\usepackage[nottoc]{tocbibind}

Answer 4

I had a similar problem, but with the article class. Neither of the solutions above work for this class, so after much searching I used the advice of Martin above and searched the article class and found that I can simply not use \tableofcontents, and instead use:

\makeatletter
\@starttoc{toc}
\makeatother

This doesn't create a section for the table of contents, so the problem goes away.

Thought I would post this here in case anyone else has a similar problem.

Answer 5

The following works for supressing the self-referencing TOC entry, and is not specific to memoir (I'm using scrbook):

\addtocontents{toc}{\protect\setcounter{tocdepth}{-1}}
\tableofcontents
\addtocontents{toc}{\protect\setcounter{tocdepth}{3}}

You can of course replace the 3 with whatever tocdepth you prefer to have.