General ⇒ subsection not in toc but keeping numbering

[loicus]

Hello all,

this is my first post on this forum, so I hope I am posting in the right category.
I would like to suppress some (but not all) subsection of by table of content but keeping the correct Title format in my document. So with the numbering of the title section and the right font and so on.

How can I do this?

generally I use

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\section*{Dummy}
\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{Dummy}

but this do the exact opposite of what I want...

thanks for help
Loic,

[kaiserkarl13]

I had to solve the same problem to satisfy my graduate school's requirements for my Ph.D. dissertation (which specified that section headings should not appear in the table of contents for appendices, though they had to appear for all headings BEFORE the appendices).

The following command should work for you:

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\addtocontents{toc}{\protect\setcounter{tocdepth}{0}}

You can change the zero to another number if you want to change the numbering depth, of course.

NOTE: If you include this command as part of the re-definition of \appendix and then \include the first chapter immediately after the \appendix command, as I did, you will find that the command takes effect AFTER the first appendix. This is built into the LaTeX kernel. The way around it is to ALSO put the line above as the first line of the \include'd file. All subsequent \include's will honor your new tocdepth.

If you want ALL sections of a certain level to appear (or not), of course, you can set the counter in the preamble instead.

Welcome to the forum!

[loicus]

Thank you very much,
Actually I just found something event better

The package tocvsec2 allows you to change the depth level of the ToC in different parts of the document. You can set the level up to sections by

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\settocdepth{section}

in one part and then change it again later to subsection by

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\settocdepth{subsection}

in another part.

thanks again,
loic

[prosper]

Many a thankyous, Loicus for this most useful post.
I'm only just beginning with Latex and it's fascinating.