[Tex/LaTex] Adding headings in contents causes links to wrong page

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I have a document with a standard TOC generated automatically by pdflatex but by default this TOC does not include lists of figures, tables and the bibliography.

So I am trying to force these manually using \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{List of Tables} in the preamble, e.g.

\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{List of Tables}
\listoftables

But what I am finding is that although the lists are included in the TOC, the page numbers tend to be one less than they should be. So if the TOC shows the List of Tables on page iv, the link in the TOC takes me to page iv which is titled List of Figures. In the TOC, the List of Figures is given as page iii.

The LaTeX MWE below illustrates what is happening.

A related issue is the page number of the bibliography. The TOC shows it to be on page 14 but page 14 actually displays the Results chapter.

The body of the document is fine and the titles appear correctly on the pages. So it must be something I am not doing, or doing wrong, with the \addcontentsline{...} lines.

Can anyone suggest anything?

MWE code:

    \documentclass[oneside,12pt]{report} % Use twoside for alternate page headings.

\usepackage{uolthesis}
\usepackage{setspace}
\usepackage{algorithm}
\usepackage{algorithmic}
\usepackage{alltt}
\usepackage{anysize}
\usepackage{appendix}
\usepackage{array}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage{caption}
\usepackage{changepage}
% \usepackage{cite}
\usepackage{color}
\usepackage{enumerate}
\usepackage{etoolbox}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\usepackage{fixltx2e}
\usepackage{footmisc}
% \usepackage{graphics}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{longtable}
\usepackage{pdflscape}
\usepackage{ragged2e}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage{bookmark}
\usepackage[numbers,sort]{natbib}
% \usepackage{tocbibind}
\usepackage{url}

\marginsize{2.54cm}{2.54cm}{2.54cm}{2.54cm}

% LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

\usepackage[acronym,footnote,nonumberlist]{glossaries} % Makes a list of abbreviations.
\usepackage{glossary-mcols}

\renewcommand{\glossarypreamble}{Text to go here\ldots}

% LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS. --------------------------------------------------------------------------

% NOTE: The LaTeX glossary is in file Abbreviations.tex. The thesis glossary is in file Glossary.tex.

% With thanks to: http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/197692/adding-a-specific-title-to-
%                 list-of-abbreviations-acronyms-in-latex.

\usepackage[acronym,footnote,nonumberlist]{glossaries} % Makes a list of abbreviations.
\usepackage{glossary-mcols}
% \makeglossaries % This must be run from the command-line: e.g. 'makeglossaries file'
                  % where `file` is the name of the main LaTeX file.
\renewcommand{\glossarypreamble}{Some text\ldots}

\include{DummyGlossary}
% \renewcommand{\glsnamefont}[1]{\textbf{#1}}

\makeglossaries
\glossarystyle{mcolindex}
% \glossarystyle{long}

% PART, CHAPTER AND SECTION NUMBERING.  -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

\makeatletter

\let\LaTeXStandardPart\part%
\newcommand{\unstarredpart@@noopt}[1]{%
    \unstarredpart@@opt[#1]{#1}%
}

\newcommand{\unstarredpart@@opt}[2][]{%
    \cleardoublepage% (For clearing content before.)
    \begingroup%
    \let\newpage\relax%
    \LaTeXStandardPart[#1]{#2}%
    \endgroup%
}

\newcommand{\starredpart}[1]{%
    \LaTeXStandardPart*{#1}%
}

\newcommand{\unstarredpart}{%
    \@ifnextchar[{\unstarredpart@@opt}{\unstarredpart@@noopt}%
}

\renewcommand{\part}{%
  \@ifstar{\starredpart}{\unstarredpart}%
}

% BIBLIOGRAPHY PREAMBLE. --------------------------------------------------------------------------

\renewcommand{\bibpreamble}{The references below are listed in order of author(s).}

% BEGIN DOCUMENT. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------

\begin{document}

    \pagenumbering{roman}

    % Title page.
    \title{\textcolor{red}{** WORKING DRAFT **}}
    \author{Author}

    \begin{abstract}
        This report\ldots
    \end{abstract}

    % LISTINGS. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

    \tableofcontents

    % Print glossary.
    \glsaddall
    \printglossary[type=acronym,title={List of Abbreviations}]\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{List of Abbreviations}    
    \printglossaries%[title={List of abbreviations}]

    % Print algorithms. 
    \clearpage% or \clearpage under the oneside option
    \phantomsection% Mark a hyperref link location
    \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{List of Algorithms}% Add contents entry for List of Tables
    \listofalgorithms% Start List of Tables
    \setcounter{chapter}{0}

    % Print figures.    
    \clearpage% or \clearpage under the oneside option
    \phantomsection% Mark a hyperref link location
    \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{List of Figures}% Add contents entry for List of Tables
    \listoffigures% Start List of Tables

    % Print tables.           
    \clearpage% or \clearpage under the oneside option
    \phantomsection% Mark a hyperref link location
    \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{List of Tables}% Add contents entry for List of Tables
    \listoftables% Start List of Tables

    \pagenumbering{arabic}

    \chapter{Introduction}

    Some text for the second reference \cite{Date}.

    \noindent Some text for the first reference \cite{Abiteboul_et_al}.

    \noindent Some text for the first reference \cite{Paass_et_al}.

    \noindent Abbreviations W3C and WWW.

    \chapter{Background}
    \chapter{Review}

    \part{Case study one}
    \chapter{Apparatus}
    \chapter{Method}
    \chapter{Experiment}
    \chapter{Results}

    \part{Case study two}
    \chapter{Apparatus}
    \chapter{Method}
    \chapter{Experiment}
    \chapter{Results}

    \appendix

    % Print figures.
    \clearpage% or \clearpage under the oneside option
    \phantomsection% Mark a hyperref link location
    \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Bibliography}% Add contents entry for List of Tables
    \bibliography{DummyBibliography}
    \bibliographystyle{plain}



\end{document}

And bibliography:

@book{Abiteboul_et_al,
  author = {S. Abiteboul and P. Buneman and D. Suciu},
  title = {Data on the web: From relations to semi-structured data and XML},
  publisher = {Morgan-Kaufmann},
  address = {San Francisco, CA, USA},
  year = {2000}
}

@book{Date,
  author    = {C. J. Date},
  title     = {{An Introduction to Database Systems, 6th Edition}},
  publisher = {Addison-Wesley},
  year      = {1995},
  isbn      = {0-201-82458-2},
  timestamp = {Thu, 03 Jan 2002 11:51:07 +0100},
  biburl    = {http://dblp.uni-trier.de/rec/bib/books/aw/Date95},
  bibsource = {dblp computer science bibliography, http://dblp.org
}

@inproceedings{Paass_et_al,
  author    = {Gerhard Paa\ss and
               Edda Leopold and
               Martha Larson and
               J{\"{o}}rg Kindermann and
               Stefan Eickeler},
  title     = {{SVM Classification Using Sequences of Phonemes and Syllables}},
  booktitle = {Principles of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, 6th European Conference,
               {PKDD} 2002, Helsinki, Finland, August 19-23, 2002, Proceedings},
  year      = {2002},
  pages     = {373--384},
  crossref  = {DBLP:conf/pkdd/2002},
  url       = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45681-3_31},
  doi       = {10.1007/3-540-45681-3_31},
  timestamp = {Fri, 12 Sep 2014 20:22:12 +0200},
  biburl    = {http://dblp.uni-trier.de/rec/bib/conf/pkdd/PaassLLKE02},
  bibsource = {dblp computer science bibliography, http://dblp.org}
}

Best Answer

You need to be on the correct page before you can issue contents-related macros. For this use

\cleardoublepage% or \clearpage under the oneside option
\phantomsection% Mark a hyperref link location
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{\listtablename}% Add contents entry for List of Tables
\listoftables% Start List of Tables

One would do something similar for the ToC, the LoF and whichever other \chapter-related entry that is not in the ToC already.

If you want all list-of elements added to the ToC, you can also just add the tocbibind package to your preamble.

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You get three times a page 1 in the front matter: in the report class the titlepage environment which is used also by abstract resets the page number to 1.

I suggest you to use the book class with its \frontmatter and \mainmatter commands, with \chapter{\abstractname} for the abstract in the front matter.

However also the report class can be used, after patching the relevant commands; I show only the important parts, add the rest to suit. It's probably better to \usepackage[<options>]{geometry} for setting the page parameters and \usepackage{setspace} for the interline spacing.

Remember the \clearpage command before \pagenumbering{arabic}.

\documentclass[12pt]{report}

%%% PATCHES %%%
\usepackage{etoolbox}
\makeatletter
% Patch `titlepage` not to reset the page number
\patchcmd{\titlepage}{\setcounter{page}\@ne}{}{}{}
\patchcmd{\endtitlepage}{\setcounter{page}\@ne}{}{}{}

% Patch `abstract` so that it shows the page number
\patchcmd{\abstract}{\titlepage}{\titlepage\thispagestyle{plain}}{}{}
\makeatother
%%% END PATCHES %%%

\begin{document}
\pagenumbering{roman}
\begin{titlepage}
abc
\end{titlepage}
\begin{abstract}
dddd
\end{abstract}

\tableofcontents

\clearpage %%%%% <---- IMPORTANT
\pagenumbering{arabic}
\pagestyle{myheadings} \markright{}
\chapter{A}

\end{document}

[Tex/LaTex] list of figures and tables when there are no figures or tables

Here is another approach. What it does is to check at the end of the document the values of the figure and table counters, and add to the .aux file a boolean flag setting depending on whether these values are zero or positive.

Then you have on next run \iffigures and \iftables which allow you to act conditionally.

In the code below, perhaps the \global are not really needed, I didn't check.

See also a variant at bottom which does not use the figure/table counters because they might well be reset to zero due to document sectioning (as pointed out by egreg in a comment).

\documentclass[10pt,twocolumn]{article}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage[margin=0.75in]{geometry}
\usepackage{float}
\floatstyle{boxed}

\restylefloat{figure}
\restylefloat{table}

\newif\iffigures
\newif\iftables

\makeatletter
\AtEndDocument {%
    \if@filesw
       \ifnum\value{figure}=\z@ % no figures
          \immediate\write\@mainaux {\global\string\figuresfalse}%
       \else
          \immediate\write\@mainaux {\global\string\figurestrue}%
       \fi
       \ifnum\value{table}=\z@ % no tables
          \immediate\write\@mainaux {\global\string\tablesfalse}%
       \else
          \immediate\write\@mainaux {\global\string\tablestrue}%
       \fi
    \fi
}
\makeatother 

% for the purpose of testing

% this will make a MWE without tables
\long\def\IGNORE #1\ENDIGNORE{}

% uncomment to make a MWE with tables
% \let\IGNORE\empty
% \let\ENDIGNORE\empty

\begin{document}

\tableofcontents

% 
\iffigures
   \addcontentsline{toc}{section}{List of Figures}
   \listoffigures
\fi

% 
\iftables
   \addcontentsline{toc}{section}{List of Table}
   \listoftables
\fi

\section{First section}
\lipsum[\inputlineno]
\begin{figure}[H]\centering
\LaTeX\LaTeX
\caption{my figure}
\end{figure}
\lipsum[\inputlineno]
\begin{figure}[H]\centering
\LaTeX\TeX
\caption{another figure}
\end{figure}
\section{Second section}
\lipsum[\inputlineno]
\IGNORE
\begin{table}[H]\centering
\TeX\LaTeX
\caption{my table}
\end{table}
\ENDIGNORE
\lipsum[\inputlineno]
\IGNORE
\begin{table}[H]\centering
\TeX\TeX
\caption{another table}
\end{table}
\ENDIGNORE
\lipsum[\inputlineno]
\end{document}

Here is for a document with figures but no tables:

without tables

And if tables are present:

with tables

Three compilations needed.

Variant. I don't know to what extent patching \figure and \table as here is OK, depends perhaps on float related packages. At the worst I guess doing the patches immediately after \begin{document} should be enough (at the end of preamble might not be enough if some package does stuff during At Begin Document).

\documentclass[10pt,twocolumn]{article}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage[margin=0.75in]{geometry}
\usepackage{float}
\floatstyle{boxed}

\restylefloat{figure}
\restylefloat{table}

\newif\iffigures
\newif\iftables

\makeatletter

\let\OLDfigure\figure
\def\figure {\figures@in@document\OLDfigure }
\let\OLDtable\table
\def\table  {\tables@in@document\OLDtable }

\def\figures@in@document {%
    \immediate\write\@mainaux {\global\string\figurestrue}%
    \global\let\figures@in@document\empty
}

\def\tables@in@document {%
    \immediate\write\@mainaux {\global\string\tablestrue}%
    \global\let\tables@in@document\empty
}

\makeatother

% for the purpose of testing

% this will make a MWE without tables
\long\def\IGNORE #1\ENDIGNORE{}

% uncomment to make a MWE with tables
%\let\IGNORE\empty
%\let\ENDIGNORE\empty

\begin{document}

\tableofcontents

% 
\iffigures
   \addcontentsline{toc}{section}{List of Figures}
   \listoffigures
\fi

% 
\iftables
   \addcontentsline{toc}{section}{List of Table}
   \listoftables
\fi

\section{First section}
\lipsum[\inputlineno]
\begin{figure}[H]\centering
\LaTeX\LaTeX
\caption{my figure}
\end{figure}
\lipsum[\inputlineno]
\begin{figure}[H]\centering
\LaTeX\TeX
\caption{another figure}
\end{figure}
\section{Second section}
\lipsum[\inputlineno]
\IGNORE
\begin{table}[H]\centering
\TeX\LaTeX
\caption{my table}
\end{table}
\ENDIGNORE
\lipsum[\inputlineno]
\IGNORE
\begin{table}[H]\centering
\TeX\TeX
\caption{another table}
\end{table}
\ENDIGNORE
\lipsum[\inputlineno]
\end{document}

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