General ⇒ Removing a page number in the TOC

[tdc]

Hi,

Does anyone know how to remove a page number from the righthand side of the table of contents so it just displays the chapter title?

Cheers, Tim

[gmedina]

Hi,

add

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\addtocontents{toc}{\protect\thispagestyle{empty}}

somewhere in the body of your document.

[localghost]

I think that wasn't meant with removing the page number. The request was for removing the according referencing page number for an entry (here chapter).

[...] Does anyone know how to remove a page number from the righthand side of the table of contents so it just displays the chapter title? [...]

It could work like the following.

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\addtocontents{toc}{\bfseries Dummy}
\chapter*{Dummy}

Formatting of the entry can differ from your ideas. Adapt it to your needs.


Best regards
Thorsten¹

[tdc]

hmmm, neither of those seemed to work.

I'm attempting to create an abstract before the table of contents (which is produced via \tableofcontents) and as such I wish for it not to have a page number.

I have achieved this on the page itself with \thispagestyle{empty} however it still appears in the TOC with a page number.

I'm using \chapter*{abstract} to generate a numberless chapter.

Cheers, Tim

[tdc]

and yes its the page number shown in the TOC i want to remove

eg

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Abstract                                          i
Table of figures                                  iii

should read

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Abstract 
Table of figures                                  iii

[gmedina]

Yes, my mistake; I misunderstood the original question. Anyway the suggestion given by localghost should work; if not, can you please post some of the actual code you are using (in the sense of a minimal working example)?

[tdc]

I'll try and form a minimal working example later but in the mean time i'm using the amsbook class, \tableofcontents to make the contents and my abstract currently looks like

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%\frontmatter
%--Abstract--
%\chapter*{Abstract}
%\label{Abstract}
%\thispagestyle{empty}
%aaaaaaa

Cheers

[localghost]

I'll try and form a minimal working example later but in the mean time i'm using the amsbook class, \tableofcontents to make the contents and my abstract currently looks like [...]

The information about the used document class is very important and should have been given right at the beginning in your initial post.

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\documentclass[11pt,english]{amsbook}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\usepackage{blindtext}

\parindent0em
\title{Abstract in ToC}
\author{tdc}
\date{\today}

\begin{document}
  \tableofcontents
  \addtocontents{toc}{\bfseries Abstract}
  \begin{center}
    \large\bfseries Abstract
  \end{center}

  \bigskip\bigskip
  \blindtext
  \newpage
  \Blinddocument
\end{document}

Issues are caused by the fact that the amsbook class handles \chapter* commands different from the standard classes and puts them automatically without numbering into the ToC.

[tdc]

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\documentclass[a4paper,12pt,reqno,oneside]{amsbook}
\begin{document}

\frontmatter
%--Abstract--
\chapter*{Abstract}
\label{Abstract}
\thispagestyle{empty}
aaaaaaaa

%
%
%
%
%

%--prebody--
\frontmatter
%--Contents--
	\tableofcontents
	

\end{document}

This is the minimal example.... i'd like to lose the page number next to the abstract

[localghost]

[...] i'd like to lose the page number next to the abstract [...]

You can't use the \chapter* command. See the explanation and the code example in my last reply.