Text Formatting ⇒ Removing the section title "Contents"

[bkarpuz]

Dear friends,

Let me explain my problem.
I am using the command \tableofcontents, and I also need to have itself of Contents (as a section) in TOC.
So that I use the following code:

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\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{Contents}
\tableofcontents

But this time in the PDF output, when I click to Contents in TOC, it takes me to the previous section.
As I have checked the *.toc file, I saw that its key refers to the previous section.
I therefore updated my code as the following:

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\section*{\centering Contents}
\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{Contents}
\tableofcontents

This time the hyperlink works good but I have two titles of Contents, one created by me with the command \section* and the other one created automatically by the command \tableofcontents.
How can I remove the one created automatically?
Or is there another way to handle this situation?

Thanks.

bkarpuz

[bkarpuz]

Dear friends,

Let me explain my problem.
I am using the command \tableofcontents, and I also need to have itself of Contents (as a section) in TOC.
So that I use the following code:

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\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{Contents}
\tableofcontents

But this time in the PDF output, when I click to Contents in TOC, it takes me to the previous section.
As I have checked the *.toc file, I saw that its key refers to the previous section.
I therefore updated my code as the following:

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\section*{\centering Contents}
\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{Contents}
\tableofcontents

This time the hyperlink works good but I have two titles of Contents, one created by me with the command \section* and the other one created automatically by the command \tableofcontents.
How can I remove the one created automatically?
Or is there another way to handle this situation?

Thanks.

bkarpuz

Here is the solution I figured out myself.

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\def\contentsname{\empty}

[frabjous]

The usual way of dealing with this is to use \phantomsection beforehand.

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\phantomsection%
\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{Contents}%
\tableofcontents

If sections always begin on a new page, you'll need to use \clearpage as well:

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\clearpage\phantomsection%
\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{Contents}%
\tableofcontents

(You might need to use \cleardoublepage instead for a two-sided document.)

The only problem with doing it your way is that it might be tricky to get the "Contents" header to match the style and position of the other section headings, and using an empty \contentsname might result in a space being put in for an empty heading where you don't want one.

[bkarpuz]

Thank you frabjous, your code is actually what I was looking for.

Many thanks again.

bkarpuz