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I need to write a document which will contain a preliminary table of contents for a report that I need to write couple of months later.

For that, I need to provide the preliminary outline, the question is, how to create a ToC with arbitrary entries in it (not related to the document which is being written now)?

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  • You can use \addcontentsline. For example, \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Appendix}
    – user11232
    Commented Feb 1, 2015 at 13:40
  • can you show me a more extended example of how it works? excuse my n00bness
    – Kristof Tak
    Commented Feb 1, 2015 at 14:07
  • You have to elaborate more on your use case. Where do you want the toc? Along with current document's toc or is it inside the body of the current document?
    – user11232
    Commented Feb 1, 2015 at 14:43
  • inside the body of the current document, completely unrelated from the current toc
    – Kristof Tak
    Commented Feb 1, 2015 at 15:17
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    Then you can simply use a list. i will post an example code shortly.
    – user11232
    Commented Feb 1, 2015 at 15:19

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You can use enumerate and to style it, use enumitem package.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{enumitem}
\usepackage{kantlipsum}
\begin{document}
  \kant[1-2]
  \begin{enumerate}[label=\arabic*,leftmargin=*,labelsep=2ex,ref=\arabic*]
    \item First chapter \dotfill 2
      \begin{enumerate}[label*=.\arabic*,leftmargin=*,labelsep=2ex]
        \item First section \dotfill 3
        \begin{enumerate}[label*=.\arabic*,leftmargin=*,labelsep=2ex]
        \item First sub section \dotfill 4
      \end{enumerate}
      \end{enumerate}
    \item Second chapter \dotfill 10
      \begin{enumerate}[label*=.\arabic*,leftmargin=*,labelsep=2ex]
        \item First section \dotfill 12
        \begin{enumerate}[label*=.\arabic*,leftmargin=*,labelsep=2ex]
        \item First sub section \dotfill 13
      \end{enumerate}
      \end{enumerate}
  \end{enumerate}
\end{document}

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More styling like adjusting the vertical separation etc can be done and left as an exercise. For details, refer enumitem manual.

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