[Tex/LaTex] Table of Contents incorrect page numbering

page-numberingtable of contents

I am using the following code.

\newpage
\section*{Abstract}
\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{Abstract}

\newpage
\tableofcontents
\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{Table of Contents}

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

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

In my actual document, I have many sections, so the table of contents is actually two pages long. Unfortunately, when I run my LaTeX file, the 'Table of Contents' section in the Table of Contents has the incorrect page number (while everything else seems to be in order). It looks like the Table of Contents is using the page number of the second page, instead of the first page.

e.g. In the Table of Contents, 'Table of Contents' is listed as being under page iii, when actually it starts on page ii. Page iii is actually the second page of my Table of Contents.

Anybody know a quick fix for this?

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Change the order of \addcontentsline:

\newpage
\section*{Abstract}
\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{Abstract}

\newpage
\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{Table of Contents}
\tableofcontents

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

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

If the hyperref package is going to be used, you might add \phantomsection to produce the right anchors for hyperlinks:

\newpage
\phantomsection
\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{Table of Contents}
\tableofcontents

As a suggestion, instead of using "manual" names, you could use the macros containing the pre-defined names; so instead of

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

you could say

\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{\listfigurename}

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[Tex/LaTex] page numbering in table of contents

I don't think it's a good idea, but I know that some institutions have crazy requirements.

If you only need plain lowercase roman numerals, it's easy. See the comment in the code.

I also added a simpler solution for the problem of getting “really empty pages”: load the emptypage package. Also, \pagenumbering{arabic} should be issued before the first chapter.

\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,openright,twoside]{report}

\usepackage{emptypage}

\begin{document}

\begin{titlepage}
This is the title page
\mbox{}
\end{titlepage}

\cleardoublepage
\pagenumbering{roman} 

\begin{center}
\large\bfseries Abstract
\end{center}

Abstract text

\cleardoublepage
% Let's change \thepage so it prints one less than
% the real page number; \pagenumbering{arabic}
% will redefine it to the right meaning afterwards.
\renewcommand\thepage{\romannumeral\numexpr\value{page}-1\relax}

\tableofcontents

\cleardoublepage
\pagenumbering{arabic}
\chapter{First chapter}
\section{First section}
\section{Second section}
\section{Third section}

\chapter{Second chapter}
\section{First section}
\section{Second section}
\section{Third section}

\chapter{Third chapter}
\section{First section}
\section{Second section}
\section{Third section}

\chapter{Fourth chapter}
\section{First section}
\section{Second section}
\section{Third section}

\chapter{Fifth chapter}
\section{First section}
\section{Second section}
\section{Third section}

\chapter{Sixth chapter}
\section{First section}
\section{Second section}
\section{Third section}

\chapter{Seventh chapter}
\section{First section}
\section{Second section}
\section{Third section}

\chapter{Eight chapter}
\section{First section}
\section{Second section}
\section{Third section}
\end{document}

[Tex/LaTex] Resets page numbering after table of contents

First of all, \pagenumbering resets the page counter to 1, so don't use it if you don't want it reset. Instead just change the numbering representation using something like

\renewcommand{\thepage}{\roman{page}}

Now, I notice you're using the sphinxmanual document class. Looking at the code, we see a redefinition of \tableofcontents that includes a \pagenumbering:

% This wraps the \tableofcontents macro with all the magic to get the spacing
% right and have the right number of pages if the 'openright' option has been
% used.  This eliminates a fair amount of crud in the individual document files.
%
\let\py@OldTableofcontents=\tableofcontents
\renewcommand{\tableofcontents}{%
  \setcounter{page}{1}%
  \pagebreak%
  \pagestyle{plain}%
  {%
    \parskip = 0mm%
    \py@OldTableofcontents%
    \if@openright%
      \ifodd\value{page}%
        \typeout{Adding blank page after the table of contents.}%
        \pagebreak\hspace{0pt}%
      \fi%
    \fi%
    \cleardoublepage%
  }%
  \pagenumbering{arabic}% <--------------- This resets the page to 1
  \@ifundefined{fancyhf}{}{\pagestyle{normal}}%
}

You can remove this reset of the page number by adding the following to your preamble before you redefine \tableofcontents:

\usepackage{etoolbox}% http://ctan.org/pkg/etoolbox
% \patchcmd{<cmd>}{<search>}{<replace>}{<success>}{<failure>}
\patchcmd{\tableofcontents}{\pagenumbering{arabic}}{}{}{}

Note that the page style may also be adjusted by sphinxmanual's definition of \tableofcontents. But for now this should get where you want.

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