[Tex/LaTex] Override page number in TOC because link goes to wrong page

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I have an issue where my TOC declares my document's glossary on page xiv when the actual list of abbreviations starts on page xiii and ends on page xiv.

The relevant part of the TOC is as follows:

\tableofcontents

    % Print glossary.              
    \glsaddall       
    \printglossary[type=acronym,title={List of Abbreviations}]        
    \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{List of Abbreviations}
    % \printglossaries%[title={List of abbreviations}]

    % Print algorithms.
    \clearpage
    \phantomsection
    \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{List of Algorithms}
    \listofalgorithms
    \setcounter{chapter}{0}

    % Print figures.
    \clearpage
    \phantomsection
    \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{List of Figures}
    \listoffigures

    % Print tables.
    \clearpage
    \phantomsection
    \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{List of Tables}
    \listoftables

    % Page headers and other elements in 'fancy' style.
    \input{Formatting}

    \clearpage

    % CONTENTS. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

    \pagenumbering{arabic} % Force page numbering in Arabic to exclude the List of Tables.

And every other link in the TOC goes to the correct page.

Does anyone have any idea as to why this is? Or can I manually set the page number for the glossary?

I am unable to supply an MWE in this case although I can say that the above works correctly in a dummy document but I can't see why it fails in the main document.

Best Answer

You just need to follow the same pattern as you do for the other lists:

\clearpage% \cleardoublepage for two-sided
\phantomsection
\addcontentsline...
\commandwhichprintslist...

So:

\glsaddall       
\clearpage
\phantomsection
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{List of Abbreviations}
\printglossary[type=acronym,title={List of Abbreviations}]

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Figured it out, it required this command:

\addcontentsline{lot}{table}{List of Abbreviations}

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Here is another approach. What it does is to check at the end of the document the values of the figure and table counters, and add to the .aux file a boolean flag setting depending on whether these values are zero or positive.

Then you have on next run \iffigures and \iftables which allow you to act conditionally.

In the code below, perhaps the \global are not really needed, I didn't check.

See also a variant at bottom which does not use the figure/table counters because they might well be reset to zero due to document sectioning (as pointed out by egreg in a comment).

\documentclass[10pt,twocolumn]{article}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage[margin=0.75in]{geometry}
\usepackage{float}
\floatstyle{boxed}

\restylefloat{figure}
\restylefloat{table}

\newif\iffigures
\newif\iftables

\makeatletter
\AtEndDocument {%
    \if@filesw
       \ifnum\value{figure}=\z@ % no figures
          \immediate\write\@mainaux {\global\string\figuresfalse}%
       \else
          \immediate\write\@mainaux {\global\string\figurestrue}%
       \fi
       \ifnum\value{table}=\z@ % no tables
          \immediate\write\@mainaux {\global\string\tablesfalse}%
       \else
          \immediate\write\@mainaux {\global\string\tablestrue}%
       \fi
    \fi
}
\makeatother 

% for the purpose of testing

% this will make a MWE without tables
\long\def\IGNORE #1\ENDIGNORE{}

% uncomment to make a MWE with tables
% \let\IGNORE\empty
% \let\ENDIGNORE\empty

\begin{document}

\tableofcontents

% 
\iffigures
   \addcontentsline{toc}{section}{List of Figures}
   \listoffigures
\fi

% 
\iftables
   \addcontentsline{toc}{section}{List of Table}
   \listoftables
\fi

\section{First section}
\lipsum[\inputlineno]
\begin{figure}[H]\centering
\LaTeX\LaTeX
\caption{my figure}
\end{figure}
\lipsum[\inputlineno]
\begin{figure}[H]\centering
\LaTeX\TeX
\caption{another figure}
\end{figure}
\section{Second section}
\lipsum[\inputlineno]
\IGNORE
\begin{table}[H]\centering
\TeX\LaTeX
\caption{my table}
\end{table}
\ENDIGNORE
\lipsum[\inputlineno]
\IGNORE
\begin{table}[H]\centering
\TeX\TeX
\caption{another table}
\end{table}
\ENDIGNORE
\lipsum[\inputlineno]
\end{document}

Here is for a document with figures but no tables:

without tables

And if tables are present:

with tables

Three compilations needed.

Variant. I don't know to what extent patching \figure and \table as here is OK, depends perhaps on float related packages. At the worst I guess doing the patches immediately after \begin{document} should be enough (at the end of preamble might not be enough if some package does stuff during At Begin Document).

\documentclass[10pt,twocolumn]{article}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage[margin=0.75in]{geometry}
\usepackage{float}
\floatstyle{boxed}

\restylefloat{figure}
\restylefloat{table}

\newif\iffigures
\newif\iftables

\makeatletter

\let\OLDfigure\figure
\def\figure {\figures@in@document\OLDfigure }
\let\OLDtable\table
\def\table  {\tables@in@document\OLDtable }

\def\figures@in@document {%
    \immediate\write\@mainaux {\global\string\figurestrue}%
    \global\let\figures@in@document\empty
}

\def\tables@in@document {%
    \immediate\write\@mainaux {\global\string\tablestrue}%
    \global\let\tables@in@document\empty
}

\makeatother

% for the purpose of testing

% this will make a MWE without tables
\long\def\IGNORE #1\ENDIGNORE{}

% uncomment to make a MWE with tables
%\let\IGNORE\empty
%\let\ENDIGNORE\empty

\begin{document}

\tableofcontents

% 
\iffigures
   \addcontentsline{toc}{section}{List of Figures}
   \listoffigures
\fi

% 
\iftables
   \addcontentsline{toc}{section}{List of Table}
   \listoftables
\fi

\section{First section}
\lipsum[\inputlineno]
\begin{figure}[H]\centering
\LaTeX\LaTeX
\caption{my figure}
\end{figure}
\lipsum[\inputlineno]
\begin{figure}[H]\centering
\LaTeX\TeX
\caption{another figure}
\end{figure}
\section{Second section}
\lipsum[\inputlineno]
\IGNORE
\begin{table}[H]\centering
\TeX\LaTeX
\caption{my table}
\end{table}
\ENDIGNORE
\lipsum[\inputlineno]
\IGNORE
\begin{table}[H]\centering
\TeX\TeX
\caption{another table}
\end{table}
\ENDIGNORE
\lipsum[\inputlineno]
\end{document}

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