[texhax] Tables of contents

[Lars Madsen]

Ivan Griffin wrote, On 2012-06-19 22:24:
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Depends on what your base document class is and what additional support 
> packages you are using (for example, memoir or koma-script).
> 
> I'm not sure if there is a really easy way of doing it (like a dedicated 
> package or an option to a package or other), but you can do it 
> relatively easily by some macro redefinitions.
> 
> If vanilla LaTeX classes like book, or report, you could try something 
> like the following crude example - note you don't need to redefine 
> \l at chapter for article.cls as it doesn't define it so we check if its 
> defined first before trying to redefine it...
> 

in memoir it is relatively easy, one can switch off page numbers for 
each different entry type

> 
> \documentclass{book} % or article, or report
> 
> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
> %
> % Begin redefinitions to remove page numbers from TOC
> % \makeatletter
> 
> % remove page numbers from \part
> \let\oldl at part=\l at part
> \renewcommand*{\l at part}[2]
> {
>     \oldl at part{#1}{ }
> }
> 
> % remove page numbers from \chapter for book.cls and report.cls
> \@ifundefined{l at chapter}
> {
>   % undefined so nothing to do
> }
> {
>   % \l at chapter only defined in book.cls and report.cls
>   \let\oldl at chapter=\l at chapter
>   \renewcommand*{\l at chapter}[2]
>   {
>       \oldl at chapter{#1}{ }
>   }
> }
> 
> % remove page numbers from \section for article.cls
> \let\oldl at section=\l at section
> \renewcommand*{\l at section}[2]
> {
>     \oldl at section{#1}{ }
> }
> 
> % remove dots and page numbers for all document classes (*.cls)
> \renewcommand{\@dottedtocline}[5]
> {
>     \ifnum #1>\c at tocdepth \else
>     \vskip \z@ \@plus.2\p@
>     {\leftskip #2\relax \rightskip \@tocrmarg \parfillskip -\rightskip
>      \parindent #2\relax\@afterindenttrue
>      \interlinepenalty\@M
>      \leavevmode
>      \@tempdima #3\relax
>      \advance\leftskip \@tempdima \null\nobreak\hskip -\leftskip
>      {#4}\nobreak
>      % removed the dotting until the page number (#5) from here
>      \par
>     \fi}
> }
> \makeatother
> 
> %
> % End redefinitions
> %
> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
> 
> 
> \begin{document}
> 
> \tableofcontents
> 
> \chapter{Foobar} % Obviously remove if changing the doc class to article
> 
> \section{Foo}
> 
> \subsection{Foo}
> 
> \section{Foo}
> 
> \subsection{Foo}
> 
> \subsection{Foo}
> 
> 
> 
> \end{document}
> 
> 
> Hope this helps,
> Ivan.
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, 18 Jun 2012, T. Michael Sommers wrote:
> 
>> Is there a relatively easy way to create a table of contents that does 
>> not have page numbers?  That is, I just want a table of the sections 
>> and subsections, etc.
>>
>> -- 
>> T.M. Sommers -- tmsommers2 at gmail.com -- ab2sb
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