Page Layout ⇒ Table of Contents enhanced ? First the chapters listing

[centguy]

I wonder if it is possible to have a more advanced table of content listing. Right now, what I have is Contents followed by
chapter 1, followed by all sections in chapter 1.
After that Chapter 2, followed by all sections in chapter2 , and
so on.

Since I like to use hyperref to help me to navigate through the book, so I think if I can have a listing of all chapters, WITHOUT the sections, and then when I click on a link to particular chapter, I will get to the place where all sections under that chapter are listed. This way, I could very quickly get to a section very quickly without skipping all irrelevant chapters and those accompanied sections.

This is a very nice feature, can we enable it ?

Thanks !

[localghost]

Take a look at the titletoc manual (Section 7.3 - Partial ToCs). Pay special attention to the examples in the appendix. For the main ToC set the tocdepth counter to Zero in order to show only chapters.


Best regards
Thorsten

[centguy]

found it extremely hard to understand the manual.

\usepackage{titlesec}
\usepackage{titletoc}
\include{common-places}
\include{abbrev}
\begin{document}

\startcontents[chapters]
\printcontents[chapters]
\stopcontents[chapters]
%\startcontents[parts]
%\printcontents[parts]
%\stopcontents[parts]
\tableofcontents

I got some gibberish CChapter1,Chapter2,Chapter3,...

in one try, but then later on I got error messages.

! Missing \endcsname inserted.
<to be read again>
\let
l.2 \contentsline {chapter}
{\numberline {1}Some very basic graphics topics}{

[localghost]

Please always post full examples instead of useless code snippets. See the code below for a first basic approach.

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\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,english]{report}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage[raggedright]{titlesec}
\usepackage{titletoc}
\usepackage[math]{blindtext}
\usepackage[linktocpage]{hyperref}

\titleformat{\chapter}[display]
{\normalfont\huge\bfseries}{\chaptertitlename\ \thechapter}{20pt}{\Huge}
[\vspace*{2pc} \normalfont\normalsize \startcontents \printcontents{l}{1}{}]

\begin{document}
  \addtocontents{toc}{\protect\setcounter{tocdepth}{0}}
  \addtocontents{ptc}{\protect\setcounter{tocdepth}{2}}
  \tableofcontents

  \chapter{First Chapter}\label{chp:one}
    \blindtext

    \section{First Section}\label{sec:oneone}
      \blindtext

    \section{Second Section}\label{sec:onetwo}
      \blindtext

  \chapter{Second Chapter}\label{chp:two}
    \blindtext

    \section{First Section}\label{sec:twoone}
      \blindtext

    \section{Second Section}\label{sec:twotwo}
      \blindtext

  \chapter{Third Chapter}\label{chp:three}
    \blindtext

    \section{First Section}\label{sec:threeone}
      \blindtext

    \section{Second Section}\label{sec:threetwo}
      \blindtext
\end{document}

[centguy]

Serious I am so happy that one of the questions that always pops into my head is answered by your example file above. I really appreciate your help ! Million thanks! I save some time in nagivating between pages of my research notes because of you!

[centguy]

Is it possible to enable the words in the table of content to be
underlined so that when I click on it, it will go to correct page?
Right now, I have to click on the page numbers at the right end of each entry to go a particular page.
I am hoping that I can click on any words within a line to nagivate, i.e., I have more "areas" to choose. Thanks.

The same issue happens in the main TOC and the toc for each individual chapter.

[gmedina]

Hi,

remove the option linktocpage from the list of options for the hyperref package; i.e., instead of

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\usepackage[linktocpage]{hyperref}

use something like

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\usepackage{hyperref}

[localghost]

For good measure you should enable line breaks for list entries (ToC, LoF, LoT) that occupy more than one line.

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\usepackage[breaklinks=true]{hyperref}

Best regards
Thorsten

[centguy]

What a lucky day for me. It works. Thanks Thorsten and gmedina!!