[Tex/LaTex] How to remove double “Contents” heading

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How to remove double “Contents” heading generated by book class?

I've tried using the following advice which was given for the memoir class but none of these solve my problem.

How to remove the self-reference of the ToC from the ToC?

How to remove "Contents" line from table of contents

How to remove double "Contents" heading generated by memoir?

Hiding the "Table of Contents" page from Table of Contents

The structure of my document is as follows:

\documentclass[12pt, twoside, a4paper]{book}

\usepackage{tocbibind}
\setcounter{secnumdepth}{0}

\begin{document}

\frontmatter
\setcounter{tocdepth}{1}
\tableofcontents

\mainmatter
\chapter[Chapter 1]{Chapter 1}

\appendix
\chapter[Appendix 1]{Appendix 1}

\backmatter
\cleardoublepage
\phantomsection
\clearpage

\begin{thebibliography}{}
\end{thebibliography}

%\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{\numberline{}Bibliography}%
\chapter[Summary]{Summary}

\end{document}

I could solve the self reference 'contents' in the TOC by:

Removing the "%" in front of

\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{\numberline{}Bibliography}

and removing

\usepackage{tocbibind} 
\phantomsection

However, this creates a new problem. In that case the bibliography is no longer lined out with the backmatter (in ToC). In stead it is spaced with the titles of the Appendices (without the appendix number).

What I want is for the bibliography to appear inline with the backmatter sections (Summary) in the ToC without a self reference of the 'contents' heading.

Best Answer

I have found a solution thanks to the information in:

Making the bibliography appear in the table of contents

In which the following answer helped me

https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/8459/16059

The trick was to replace

\usepackage{tocbibind}

With

\usepackage[nottoc,numbib]{tocbibind}

According to the post this should work for all standard classes (article, book, report).

Related Solutions

[Tex/LaTex] Suppress/remove sectioning (heading) from table of contents

OK, I think I got it, thanks to answer #47241 How to remove the self-reference of the ToC from the ToC?:

... found that I can simply not use \tableofcontents, and instead use:
\makeatletter
\@starttoc{toc}
\makeatother
This doesn't create a section for the table of contents, so the problem goes away.

And indeed, seems to work for above MWE too:

\documentclass[twoside,a4paper]{book}

\begin{document}

\section{TOC}

% \tableofcontents
\makeatletter
\@starttoc{toc}
\makeatother

\cleardoublepage

\section{Sect 1}

\section{Sect 2}

\section{Sect 3}

\end{document}

Hope this is the way to do this :) Cheers!

[Tex/LaTex] Remove dots in toc for a particular entry like appendix

A heading command like \section{A} writes a line into the .toc file that looks like this:

\contentsline {section}{\numberline {1.1}A}{2}

when this is read back in \contentsline{section} simply expands to \l@section and that is then the command that picks up the remaining arguments and produces the toc entry. Most often (but not always) this command is defined as a special instance of \@dottedcontentsline, e.g., in the book class you find:

\newcommand*\l@section{\@dottedtocline{1}{1.5em}{2.3em}}

So to get rid of the dots in some cases there are different approaches possible and the depend on how things are defined and which entries you have to change in reality.

Plan A

Assuming that your toc uses \@dottedtoclinethen to get rid of the dots we can redefine \@dotsep to have a very high number. Assuming further, that we only want to change the sections at the end of the toc and we do not need to have dots appearing later on again. Then the following in front of the appendix in the source document will do the trick:

\makeatletter
\addtocontents{toc}{\def\string\@dotsep{100}}
\makeatother

This will write \def\@dotsep{100} into the toc file and from that point on the dots are gone.

If you need them back at a later point issue

\makeatletter
\addtocontents{toc}{\def\string\@dotsep{4.5}}  % 4.5 might be a different value in your class
\makeatother

Plan B

Make the heading commands in the appendix area or whenever you want a different toc style not write \contentsline{section}but, say, \contentsline{appsection} and then define \l@appsection to format the toc entry according to the desired style.

For this one would need to look for the places in the heading commands that issue \addcontentsline and change that code.

Fairly elaborate but much more general.