[texhax] trying to modify book.cls to automatically add TOC entry for \chapter* gives errors

[Morten Høgholm]

On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 6:12 PM, Niall Mansfield <texhax at uit.co.uk> wrote:
> - Using book.cls
> - Want to change \chapter*{} in order to:
>        * add a TOC entry
>        * set the running heads
>   so that we can use \chapter*{} for Preface, Foreword,
>   Glossary, etc.

These are the keywords. What you seem to be looking for is
\frontmatter, \mainmatter and \backmatter. Then no starred versions of
\chapter are needed.

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Morten