[Tex/LaTex] How to put a minitoc before a chapter, on the facing page

chaptersminitoctable of contents

I'm writing a large book, using minitoc to put a small table of contents at the start of each chapter. But it looks terrible.

I would like instead to put the minitoc on the facing page before the first page of the chapter. For example, if Chapter 9 starts on page 503, then I would like the minitoc for Chapter 9 to appear on page 502.

I know how to clear to an even page. The question is what do I use instead of \minitoc to get the minitoc for the next chapter rather than the current one?

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You can use etoc for this, via its label/ref mechanism for tocs.

\documentclass{book}

\usepackage{etoc}
\usepackage{blindtext}

\makeatletter
\newcommand*\cleartoevenpage {%
   \clearpage 
   \if@twoside \ifodd \c@page \hbox {}\newpage 
        \if@twocolumn \hbox {}\newpage \fi 
   \fi \fi }
\makeatother


\begin{document}


\tableofcontents


% switch to article like style for table of contents
% (else they will start like chapters on odd numbered pages)
% would need adjustment in two-column mode

\etocarticlestyle
\renewcommand*\etocbeforetitlehook {\cleartoevenpage}


\tableofcontents\ref{toc:first}

\chapter{First}
\invisiblelocaltableofcontents\label{toc:first}

\section{Foo}
\blindtext[2]

\subsection{FooFoo}
\blindtext[5]
\subsubsection{FooFooFoo}
\blindtext[5]

\section{Foo2}
\blindtext[3]

\subsection{FooFoo2}
\blindtext[7]
\subsubsection{FooFooFoo2}
\blindtext[7]


\tableofcontents\ref{toc:bar}
\chapter{Bar}
\invisiblelocaltableofcontents\label{toc:bar}

\section{Bar}
\blindtext[2]

\subsection{BarBar}
\blindtext[5]
\subsubsection{BarBarBar}
\blindtext[5]


\tableofcontents\ref{toc:ear}
\chapter{Ear}
\invisiblelocaltableofcontents\label{toc:ear}

\section{Ear}
\blindtext[2]

\subsection{EarEar}
\blindtext[5]
\subsubsection{EarEarEar}
\blindtext[5]

\section{Ear2}
\blindtext[3]

\subsection{EarEar2}
\blindtext[7]
\subsubsection{EarEarEar2}
\blindtext[7]


\tableofcontents\ref{toc:fur}
\chapter{Fur}
\invisiblelocaltableofcontents\label{toc:fur}

\section{Fur}
\blindtext[2]

\subsection{FurFur}
\blindtext[5]
\subsubsection{FurFurFur}
\blindtext[5]


\end{document}

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[Tex/LaTex] \minitoc on the \part-page

Since you are using titlesec it's not convenient to use minitoc. The following remark appears in the minitoc documentation:

The titlesec package redefines the sectionning commands in a way completely alien to the standard LaTeX way; hence minitoc and titlesec-titletoc are fundamentaly incompatible, and it is very sad.

However, you can easily produce the ToCs using titletoc:

\documentclass{report}
\usepackage{titlesec,titletoc}  

\titleclass{\part}{top}
\titleformat{\part}
  {\centering\normalfont\Huge\bfseries}{}{0pt}{}

\setcounter{secnumdepth}{5}

\begin{document}
\tableofcontents

\part{This is the Part}
\startcontents[parts]
\printcontents[parts]{}{-1}{\setcounter{tocdepth}{5}}

\chapter{First part. This is its first chapter}
\section{First part. Section}
\subsection{First part. Subsection}
\subsubsection{First part. Subsubsection}
\paragraph{First part. Paragraph}
\subparagraph{First part. Subparagraph}
\chapter{First part. This is its second chapter}

\stopcontents[parts]

\part{This is the Part}
\startcontents[parts]
\printcontents[parts]{}{-1}{\setcounter{tocdepth}{5}}

\chapter{Second part. This is its first chapter}
\section{Second part. Section}
\subsection{Second part. Subsection}
\subsubsection{Second part. Subsubsection}
\paragraph{Second part. Paragraph}
\subparagraph{Second part. Subparagraph}

\end{document}

[Tex/LaTex] Insert page before each chapter

Redefine the chapter command to execute some start code before, in its easyiest form, you have to use a clearpage before, using the old pagestyle, then use plain pagestyle and add the page code, afterwards switch back to old fancy pagestyle.

Since there are \chapter[]{} and \chapter{} forms of the \chapter command, both have to be catched.

\documentclass[a4paper,11pt]{report}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{amsmath,graphicx,color,algorithm,float,caption,mathtools}
\usepackage{url,rotating,multirow}
\usepackage{algpseudocode,pdfpages}
\usepackage[normalem]{ulem}
\usepackage{breqn}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\DeclarePairedDelimiter{\ceil}{\lceil}{\rceil}

\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\fancyhf{}
\fancyhead[HL]{\leftmark}
\fancyfoot[C] {\thepage}

\let\LaTeXStandardChapter\chapter%

\newcommand{\chapterstartpage}[1]{%
\clearpage% Clearpage first, then use pagestyle plain
\pagestyle{plain}%
\addtocounter{chapter}{1}%
\begingroup
\centering%
\Huge \textbf{\chaptername~\thechapter}%%

\addtocounter{chapter}{-1}%
%% Add more space here, do more formatting also here
\vspace{\baselineskip}%
\textbf{#1}%
\endgroup
\clearpage
\pagestyle{fancy}%
}%

\makeatletter
\newcommand{\chapter@noopt}[1]{%
\chapterstartpage{#1}%
\LaTeXStandardChapter{#1}%
}%

\newcommand{\chapter@opt}[2][]{%
\chapterstartpage{#2}%
\LaTeXStandardChapter[#1]{#2}%
}%


\newcommand{\unstarredchapter}{%
\@ifnextchar[{\chapter@opt}{\chapter@noopt}%
}%

\newcommand{\starredchapter}[1]{%
\LaTeXStandardChapter*{#1}
}%



\renewcommand{\chapter}{%
\@ifstar{\starredchapter}{\unstarredchapter}%
}%







\makeatother


\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{1pt}
\begin{document}

\cleardoublepage
\pagenumbering{gobble}
%\includepdf[pages={-}]{certificate/certi.pdf}
\tableofcontents
\listoffigures
\listoftables

\cleardoublepage
\pagenumbering{arabic}

\chapter{Some sophisticated chapter}%

\chapter{Another sophisticated chapter}%

\blindtext[5]

\chapter{Yet another sophisticated chapter}%

\blindtext[5]


%\include{abstract/abstract}
%\include{introduction/intro}
%\include{survey/survey}
%\include{chapter1/chapter1}
%\include{chapter2/chapter2}
%\include{chapter3/chapter3}
%\include{chapter4/chapter4}
%\include{chapter5/chapter5}
%\include{results/results}
%\include{conclusion/conclusion}
%references will go here

%\renewcommand{\bibname}{References}
%\bibliographystyle{plain}

%\bibliography{References/references}
\end{document}

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