Table of content for Dictionary

Question

I have one problem in the latex \tableofcontents.

Look at the image I circled.

For Dictionary from A-Z               1-250

How to do that in latex in \tableofcontents?

Is it possible in LaTeX?

Answer 1

Well, the command \addtocontents{toc}{STUFF} adds anything you want to the table of contents. You need to format your entry yourself, however.

If you look into TOC of a LaTeX file, you see that its entries have the following structure \contentsline {SECTION}{\numberline {NUMBER}TITLE}{PAGE}{HYPERLINK NAME} (the last argument is there only if you use hyperref). So you need to:

1. Put \label{first_page} on the first page.

2. Put \label{last_page} on the last page

3. Put on the first page \addtocontents{toc}{\contentsline {section}{\numberline{} Words}{\pageref{first_page}--\pageref{last_page}}{}}

You many need to change section to chapter here depending on the style you want.

Good luck!

Answer 2

Your information are really spare. The modification based also on the packages which creates the index. For example you can use makeidx, scrindex or splitidx ...

In my example I uses the class scrbook in combination with scrindex:

\documentclass[ngerman,idxtotoc]{scrbook} 
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage{scrindex}
\usepackage{etoolbox}
\usepackage[user,abspage]{zref}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\makeatletter
\renewcommand*{\idx@heading}{%
  \if@openright\cleardoublepage\else\clearpage\fi%
  \twocolumn[\idx@@heading{\indexname}]%
  \@mkboth{\indexname}{\indexname}%
}
\renewcommand*\idx@@heading[1]{%
   \phantomsection
   \chapter*{\hypertarget{indexlink}{#1}}\zlabel{startindex}
   \addtocontents{toc}{\protect\addvspace{\@chapterlistsgap}}
   \addtocontents{toc}{%
            {\usekomafont{chapterentry}%
             \protect\hyperlink{indexlink}{\indexname}%
             \protect\hfill%
             \zpageref{startindex} -- \zpageref{endindex}%
            }}
}
\AtEndEnvironment{theindex}{\zlabel{endindex}}
\makeindex
\begin{document} 
\tableofcontents
\chapter{foo}
Text\index{Text}
\printindex
Test
\end{document}