[Tex/LaTex] Show chapter in Table of Contents but do not print its header in text

chapterssectioningtable of contents

I would like to list some pages of my report under a chapter. This chapter should be printed in the text without the header but with an entry in the Table of Contents.

It should look like this:

TOC:
 1. chapter1
 2. chapter2
 3. chapter3

chapter1:
 LOREM IPSUM
chapter2:
 LOREM IPSUM

% from here on I would like to list the text under chapter 3 in the ToC 
% but don't what to print "Chapter 3:" at all
 LOREM IPSUM

This would be something like \addcontentsline{file}{sec_unit}{entry} but without printing the chapter header in text.

Best Answer

+1 You got it, \addcontentsline really exists!

\cleardoublepage
\phantomsection
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{My Dummy Chapter Title}

Issuing \cleardoublepage is necessary only if you want your non-chapter to start on a new page. Issuing \phantomsection is necessary only when you load the hyperref package.

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[Tex/LaTex] Remove “chapter #” from the chapter title but keep chapter number in the table of contents

You can redefine the internal way of the chapter output:

\makeatletter
\def\@makechapterhead#1{%
  \vspace*{50\p@}%
  {\parindent \z@ \raggedright \normalfont
    %\ifnum \c@secnumdepth >\m@ne
    %    \huge\bfseries \@chapapp\space \thechapter
    %    \par\nobreak
    %    \vskip 20\p@
    %\fi
    \interlinepenalty\@M
    \Huge \bfseries #1\par\nobreak
    \vskip 40\p@
  }}
  \makeatother

[Tex/LaTex] Insert Table of Contents in chapter

Here is a quick (stock) answer for this:

The easiest way is to use etoc package and its \localtableofcontents macro, at the appropriate place. The manual is at https://ctan.org/pkg/etoc.

\documentclass{book}

\usepackage{etoc}


\begin{document}
\tableofcontents % Global toc
\chapter{First}
\localtableofcontents % local toc
\section{First section}

\chapter{Second}
\localtableofcontents

\section{First section of 2nd chapter}

\end{document}

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Edit Here is the memoir version.

For some reasons I can't figure out (the manual of etoc is not really clear in this case) it's necessary to use \localtableofcontents*. The individual tocdepth can be controlled with the \etocsettocdepth.toc{sectionlevel} command (note the .toc in the macro name`)

\documentclass{memoir}

\usepackage{blindtext}
\usepackage{etoc}


\setsecnumdepth{subsection}
\etocsettocdepth{subsection}
\begin{document}

\tableofcontents % Global toc
\chapter{First}
\etocsettocdepth.toc{section}

\localtableofcontents*
\section{First section}
\subsection{First subsection -- not in the local toc}

\blindtext

\chapter{Second}
\etocsettocdepth.toc{subsection}
\localtableofcontents*

\section{First section of 2nd chapter}
\subsection{First subsection of first section of 2nd chapter}

\end{document}

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