table of contents
I'm writing my thesis. I would like to insert the acknowledgments after the frontispiece and before the table of contents.
I write
\chapter*{Acknowledgments}
....
\thispagestyle{empty}
But the problem is that it appear in the table of contents and I don't want it. How can I do to exclude this chapter from the table of contents?
I recommend you take a look at the tocloft package. It provides lots of commands to modify the table of contents (and the list of figures, the list of tables, and similar lists).
The following MWE illustrates the usage of the package, using some of the criteria outlined in your posting:
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{tocloft}
\renewcommand\contentsname{Table of Contents}
\renewcommand{\cfttoctitlefont}{\hfill\large\bfseries}
\renewcommand{\cftaftertoctitle}{\hfill}
\renewcommand\cftchapfont{\mdseries} % default: \bfseries
\cftpagenumbersoff{chapter} % suppress mention of page numbers for chapters, etc
\cftpagenumbersoff{section}
\cftpagenumbersoff{subsection}
\begin{document}
\frontmatter
\tableofcontents
\mainmatter
\addtocontents{toc}{\protect{\mdseries Chapter\par}} % insert the "Chapter" header line
\chapter{General information}
\section{Data}
\section{Good}
\chapter{Background}
\section{Yes}
\section{No}
\end{document}
Don't use \subsection* everywhere, if you never want subsections to be numbered. Instead, add
\setcounter{secnumdepth}{1} % levels under \section are not numbered
\setcounter{tocdepth}{2} % levels under \subsection are not listed in the TOC
Example with article, but with report or book (or most of the other classes)
\documentclass{article}
\setcounter{secnumdepth}{1} % levels under \section are not numbered
\setcounter{tocdepth}{2} % levels under \subsection are not listed in the TOC
\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
\section{Introduction}
\subsection{Some title}
Here's the text.
\subsection{Again}
And again.
\section{Conclusion}
Enough.
\end{document}
Best Answer
Indeed, the
amsbookclass defines\chapter*in such a way that an entry is added to the ToC. You need to define a special command “by hand”:Edit: I’ve noticed that you want the
emptypage style on the acknowledgment page, so I’ve updated the above code accordingly.