How to get two tableofcontents (general and detailled)?

Question

I often see two table of contents in books - one for the big overview, one very detailled. I would like to have that too for a book based on Springers svmono template.

I have numbered chapters and unnumbered sections in the book. The tableofcontent produced only shows the parts and the numbered chapters. That ok for an overview. I would like to have another tableofcontent behind the first one showing all the unnumbered sections too - is that possible, and how can I achieve this?

Answer 1

Here's a possible solution using the titlesec and titletoc packages. titletoc allows you to easily create partial ToCs; in this case, we can easily create a detailed ToC. The explicit option for titlesec was used to easily redefine \section* so as to include the section title in this new detailed table of contents:

\documentclass{book}
\usepackage[explicit]{titlesec}
\usepackage{titletoc}

\titleformat{name=\section,numberless}
  {\normalfont\Large\bfseries}{}{0em}{#1\addcontentsline{ptc}{section}{#1}}

\begin{document}

\renewcommand\contentsname{General Contents}
\tableofcontents
\startcontents
\printcontents{}{-1}{\chapter*{Detailed Contents}}

\part{Test Part One}
\chapter{Test Chapter One}
\section*{Test Section One One}
\section*{Test Section One Two}
\section*{Test Section One Three}
\chapter{Test Chapter Two}
\section*{Test Section Two One}
\section*{Test Section Two Two}
\section*{Test Section Two Three}
\part{Test Part Two}
\chapter{Test Chapter One}
\section*{Test Section One One}
\section*{Test Section One Two}
\section*{Test Section One Three}
\chapter{Test Chapter Two}
\section*{Test Section Two One}
\section*{Test Section Two Two}
\section*{Test Section Two Three}

\end{document}

The two ToCs obtained: the one (general, short ToC) produced by \tableofcontents:

and the detailed one produced by titletoc's \printcontents:

Answer 2

Use the shorttocpackage:

\usepackage{shorttoc}

Now you can make a second table of contents with the name and depth you like. For example

\shorttableofcontents{Overview}{0}
\tableofcontents

This examples produces a TOC "Overview" with only parts and chapters. You can change the number 0 to a higher one if you like, to get sections and so on too.