[Tex/LaTex] Setting \setcounter{tocdepth} for an individual chapter

counterstable of contents

Hiya,
Is it possible to set the \setcounter{tocdepth}{..} for one chapter only?

The default depth is fine for the entire document, except for the last chapter- I only want the chapter title to appear in the table of contents (all sections, subsections etc should not appear).

I could adjust all of my sections to use an asterisk, eg \section*{...} which will cause them to not be numbered and not show up in the ToC, however I want these sections to be numbered! (I have references to these numbers elsewhere).

I have tried placing \setcounter{tocdepth}{1} to the chapter I want this to apply to, and have tried adding it to my main tex file before the \include of that chapter, doesn't seem to work (I guess because \maketitle has already been called by that stage?)

Any suggestions?

Best Answer

If I understand you right, the code below should do what you want.

\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,english]{report}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage{blindtext}

\begin{document}
  \tableofcontents

  \blinddocument

  \addtocontents{toc}{\protect\setcounter{tocdepth}{0}}
  \blinddocument
\end{document}

Setting the counter tocdepth to »1« would also show the sections.

One should note that this will change the tocdepth for the rest of the document. Simply using the same command you can set the depth to what ever you wish for following chapters.

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