page-numberingtable of contents
What is the best way to remove Page Numbers from a Multi-Page TOC without touching the \pagestyle or \thispagestyle?
I've seen this post already, but I want to find out if there are more ways to solve this.
Furthermore, if you have a collection of "pages", how do you easily nest these inside a block that does not include page numbers?
\pagestyle{empty} doesnt work?
You should use some of the functionality provided by tocloft. Instead of using \addcontentsline{<file>}{<type>}{<title>}, use \cftaddtitleline{<file>}{<type>}{<title>}{<page>}. Using the latter allows you to use an empty <page> argument:
\documentclass{article}
% Table of Contents package
\usepackage{tocloft}
% dots to TOC
\AtBeginDocument{
\renewcommand{\cftsecleader}{\cftdotfill{\cftsecdotsep}}
\renewcommand\cftsecdotsep{\cftdot}
\renewcommand\cftsubsecdotsep{\cftdot}
\renewcommand{\cftfigleader}{\cftdotfill{\cftsecdotsep}}
\renewcommand{\cfttableader}{\cftdotfill{\cftsecdotsep}}
}
%remove incremental number from TOC
\newcommand{\abstractsection}[1]{%
\clearpage
\section*{#1}
\cftaddtitleline{toc}{section}{#1}{}%
}
\begin{document}
\addtocontents{toc}{\protect\renewcommand{\protect\cftsecleader}{\hfill}}
%abstract
\abstractsection{ABSTRACT}
Some abstract content
\clearpage
% List of Figures and List of Tables
\listoffigures
\cftaddtitleline{toc}{section}{LIST OF FIGURES}{}%
\listoftables
\cftaddtitleline{toc}{section}{LIST OF TABLES}{}%
\clearpage
% Table of Contents
\tableofcontents
\cftaddtitleline{toc}{section}{CONTENTS}{}%
\clearpage
\addtocontents{toc}{\protect\renewcommand{\protect\cftsecleader}{\protect\cftdotfill{\protect\cftsecdotsep}}}
%contents
\section{FIRST CHAPTER}
\begin{figure}[ht]
figure
\caption[EXAMPLE FIGURE]{example figure}
\end{figure}
\section{SECOND CHAPTER}
\begin{table}[ht]
table
\caption[EXAMPLE TABLE]{example table}
\end{table}
\end{document}
Additionally, you have to insert (very strategically) entries into the ToC file to remove the leaders. I've done so and commented those locations above. The .toc file should now resemble:
\renewcommand {\cftsecleader }{\hfill }
\contentsline {section}{ABSTRACT}{}
\contentsline {section}{LIST OF FIGURES}{}
\contentsline {section}{LIST OF TABLES}{}
\contentsline {section}{CONTENTS}{}
\renewcommand {\cftsecleader }{\cftdotfill {\cftsecdotsep }}
\contentsline {section}{\numberline {1}FIRST CHAPTER}{5}
\contentsline {section}{\numberline {2}SECOND CHAPTER}{5}
This way of adjusting the ToC-related content is necessary, since the ToC is processed as a whole before the rest of the document is set. You have to insert the adjustments within your document that correspond to the sequence within the ToC.
Best Answer
If you don't want to change the page style, you could change the page numbering. For example:
Here, I switched it off by using
gobble. Note, by\pagenumbering{arabic}the numbering starts with 1, so it might be that you would like to raise the page number using\refstepcounteror\addtocounter, for example.I used
\cleardoublepageto end the page before changing the page numbering. Otherwise the last table of contents page could get an arabic number.You could use this for disabling page numbering in blocks, or consider adjusting the page style in the block, or redefine
\thepagelocally within in the block. If you need\thepagethough, you could introduce another macro, which is\thepageby default and is used in your header or footer, and change that temporarily.