[Tex/LaTex] Long table of contents makes page numbers wrong

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I have created a table of contents page using \tableofcontents and I have enough chapters and sections that it fills an entire page and goes into another.

The problem is that since it takes a second page all of the page numbering is off by 1.

Is there a way that I can fix that?

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Creating a table of contents (ToC) needs at least two LaTeX runs: The first run to collect the data for the ToC and write it into an auxiliary file, the second run to actually typeset the ToC. In case the ToC itself takes more than one page, a third LaTeX run is needed (which will use the auxiliary data from the second run).

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[Tex/LaTex] Wrong page number for List of Figures within Table of Contents

The second code you mentioned should work, as egreg already commented. However, you could write the \addcontentsline command into the .lof file, before figures are created, so it's executed at the beginning of the beginning of the list of figures page:

\addtocontents{lof}{\protect\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{List of Figures}}

You need to use \protect before \addcontentsline to prevent the expansion of that macro when it's written to the .lof file.

Another approach would be using the tocbibind package instead of adding those entries manually. tocbibind automatically adds the bibliography and/or the index and/or the contents, list of figures, list of tables etc. to the table of contents. The package provides options for switching off any of these inclusions.

[Tex/LaTex] Table of Contents incorrect page numbering

Change the order of \addcontentsline:

\newpage
\section*{Abstract}
\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{Abstract}

\newpage
\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{Table of Contents}
\tableofcontents

\newpage
\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{List of Tables}
\listoftables

\newpage
\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{List of Figures} 
\listoffigures

If the hyperref package is going to be used, you might add \phantomsection to produce the right anchors for hyperlinks:

\newpage
\phantomsection
\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{Table of Contents}
\tableofcontents

As a suggestion, instead of using "manual" names, you could use the macros containing the pre-defined names; so instead of

\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{List of Figures}

you could say

\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{\listfigurename}

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