[Tex/LaTex] Ordering Glossary in ToC before another entry

glossariestable of contents

I'm having difficulties getting my glossary to show up in the right place in my table of contents. It needs to come before the Acknowledgements and be in the same font type as the List of Figures etc.

\documentclass[12pt]{report}
\pagestyle{plain}

\usepackage[acronym,toc]{glossaries}  %Allows creation of a glossary page
\makeglossaries
\newglossaryentry{Ppump}
 {
  name=$P_{Pump}$,
  description={Pump wavelength (W)}
 }

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
%         Begin document              %
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\begin{document}
\thispagestyle{empty}
\pagenumbering{roman}

\doublespacing
\include{abstract}
\include{table_of_contents}
\singlespacing
\include{acknowledgements}

\end{document}

And for additional info, this is the code for my ToC (table_of_contents.tex).

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
%           Sets up Table of Contents            %
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{Table of Contents}
\tableofcontents

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

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

\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{Glossary of Terms}
\printglossaries

\newpage
\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{Acknowledgements}

I am working on my thesis, so I do have quite a few .tex files for the different sections to make debugging easier (at least for me) as most of them are just different chapters then I can include them into the main document later. Anyways, if this question has already been asked, can someone please refer me to the link?

Best Answer

You are currently adding the glossary to the table of contents twice. The first time is when you add the contents line manually. The next is when you issue \printglossaries having passed the toc option to glossaries.

Method 1

Don't pass toc to glossaries:

\documentclass[12pt]{report}
\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{table_of_contents.tex}
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
%           Sets up Table of Contents            %
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{Table of Contents}
\tableofcontents

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

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

\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{Glossary of Terms}
\printglossaries

\newpage
\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{Acknowledgements}
\end{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{abstract.tex}
    abstract
\end{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{acknowledgements.tex}
    acknowledgements
\end{filecontents}

\pagestyle{plain}

\usepackage[acronym]{glossaries}  %Allows creation of a glossary page
\makeglossaries
\newglossaryentry{Ppump}
 {
  name=$P_{Pump}$,
  description={Pump wavelength (W)}
 }

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
%         Begin document              %
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\begin{document}
\thispagestyle{empty}
\pagenumbering{roman}

\include{abstract}
\include{table_of_contents}
\include{acknowledgements}

\gls{Ppump}

\begin{figure}
    my figure
    \caption{exciting figure}
\end{figure}
\begin{table}
    \begin{tabular}{cc}
        a   &   table
    \end{tabular}
  \caption{exciting table}
\end{table}

\end{document}

Manual addition

Method 2

Configure toc to behave as you wish:

\documentclass[12pt]{report}
\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{table_of_contents.tex}
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
%           Sets up Table of Contents            %
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{Table of Contents}
\tableofcontents

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

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

\clearpage
\printglossary[title={Glossary of Terms}]

\newpage
\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{Acknowledgements}
\end{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{abstract.tex}
    abstract
\end{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{acknowledgements.tex}
    acknowledgements
\end{filecontents}

\pagestyle{plain}

\usepackage[acronym, toc, section=section]{glossaries}  %Allows creation of a glossary page
\makeglossaries
\newglossaryentry{Ppump}
 {
  name=$P_{Pump}$,
  description={Pump wavelength (W)}
 }

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
%         Begin document              %
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\begin{document}
\thispagestyle{empty}
\pagenumbering{roman}

\include{abstract}
\include{table_of_contents}
\include{acknowledgements}

\gls{Ppump}

\begin{figure}
    my figure
    \caption{exciting figure}
\end{figure}
\begin{table}
    \begin{tabular}{cc}
        a   &   table
    \end{tabular}
  \caption{exciting table}
\end{table}

\end{document}

Configure automatic addition

Related Solutions

[Tex/LaTex] List of figures as a section with number

In the default article document class \listoffigures is set as \section*, thereby removing it from being displayed in the ToC:

\newcommand\listoffigures{%
    \section*{\listfigurename}%
      \@mkboth{\MakeUppercase\listfigurename}%
              {\MakeUppercase\listfigurename}%
    \@starttoc{lof}%
    }

Modifying this to actually use \section instead inserts the appropriate numbering:

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\documentclass{article}
\newcommand{\insertfigure}{\begin{figure}\caption{A figure caption}\end{figure}}
\makeatletter
\renewcommand\listoffigures{%
    \section{\listfigurename}% Used to be \section*{\listfigurename}
      \@mkboth{\MakeUppercase\listfigurename}%
              {\MakeUppercase\listfigurename}%
    \@starttoc{lof}%
    }
\makeatother
\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
\listoffigures
\section{A section}\insertfigure\insertfigure\insertfigure
\section{A section}\insertfigure\insertfigure\insertfigure
\section{A section}\insertfigure\insertfigure\insertfigure
\section{A section}\insertfigure\insertfigure\insertfigure
\section{A section}\insertfigure\insertfigure\insertfigure
\section{A section}\insertfigure\insertfigure\insertfigure
\end{document}

[Tex/LaTex] How to reduce the size of listoffigures and listoftables titles

If you don't load tocloft your problem goes away.

But since you have loaded it, you are probably going to use its features. Be aware that tocloft changes the way the titles of Table of Contents (ToC), List of Figures (LoF) and List of Tables (LoT) are typeset, in respect to the standard way defined by the document class.

If you want to use your custom titles and tocloft together, you have to inform tocloft about that. This can be done by passing the option titles when loading it, that is, use

\usepackage[titles]{tocloft}

Also, as a side note, you have loaded the tocbibind package with the options notlot and notlof, which causes the LoF and the LoT not to be included in the ToC, but later you issue the following commands

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

\phantomsection
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{List of Figures}

which instead add the LoF and the LoT in the ToC.

Since the tocbibind is specifically designed to do these things, simply load it as

\usepackage[nottoc]{tocbibind}

and delete the above lines from your document.

One more thing... Instead of using the commands

\hoffset =  0pt
\oddsidemargin = 36pt
\evensidemargin = 36pt
\marginparwidth = 0pt
\marginparsep = 0pt
\textwidth = 418pt
...

to modify your page layout, I suggest you to have a look at the geometry package, which is specifically designed to handle the page layout.