Is it possible to create a TOC with section headings in one color and subsection headings in different color.
\tableofcontents
\setcounter{tocdepth}{2}
I am using above lines to create TOC, do I need to use any special package?
[Tex/LaTex] TOC Section & Subsection coloring
colortable of contents
Related Solutions
You can try the following:
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage[svgnames]{xcolor}
\newcounter{chapcntr}
\setcounter{chapcntr}{-1}
\newcommand*\toccolor{%
\ifcase\value{chapcntr}%
\color{red}%----- 0 --
\or \color{blue}%---- 1 --
\or \color{green}%--- 2 --
\or \color{cyan}%---- 3 --
\else \color{black}%-- default
\fi}
\usepackage{tocloft}
\renewcommand*\cftchapfont{\stepcounter{chapcntr}\toccolor\bfseries}
\renewcommand*\cftchappagefont{\toccolor\bfseries}
\renewcommand*\cftsecfont{\toccolor}
\renewcommand{\cftsecleader}{\toccolor\cftdotfill{\cftsecdotsep}}
\renewcommand*\cftsecpagefont{\toccolor}
\begin{document}
\frontmatter
\tableofcontents
\mainmatter
\chapter{First chapter}
\section{A section}
\section{Another section}
\chapter{Second chapter}
\section{A section}
\section{Another section}
\appendix
\chapter{First appendix}
\section{A section}
\section{Another section}
\backmatter
\end{document}
Resulting in
If you want all \subsections to be removed from the ToC, then all you need in your document preamble is
\setcounter{tocdepth}{1}
which would set the maximum depth of entries in the ToC to 1 (or \section).
If you only want selected \subsections to be inserted/not in the ToC, then you should use a different technique. The following defines \stoptocentries and \starttocentries. The former disables inserting content in the ToC by disabling \addcontentsline. The latter restores the functionality.
\documentclass{article}
\let\oldaddcontentsline\addcontentsline
\newcommand{\stoptocentries}{\renewcommand{\addcontentsline}[3]{}}
\newcommand{\starttocentries}{\let\addcontentsline\oldaddcontentsline}
\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
\section{A section}
\stoptocentries% Stop adding content to the ToC
\subsection{A subsection}
\starttocentries% Resume adding content to the ToC
\subsection{Another subsection}
\end{document}
Of course, usage of \stoptocentries also pertains to other sectional units that use \addcontentsline.
Best Answer
You could use the
tocloftpackage for customizing the table of contents.Without an additional package, you could modify the class macros which are responsible for the table of contents entries, such as
\l@sectionand\l@subsection.Here is an example for the
articleclass: