Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ Add table of contents to table of contents

[ptha]

Hi I'm writing my thesis using Latex (Kile on Ubuntu) and
I want have the table of contents actually appear as an entry in the table of contents.

I've tried \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Contents} with no joy.

I'm sorry if this is a ridiculous question, but have mercy I'm a newbie...
P

[gmedina]

Hi,

you forgot to mention the document class that you are using (crucial information not to be forgotten again). The tocbibind package could be useful for you:

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\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{tocbibind}

\begin{document}
\tableofcontents

\end{document}

[frabjous]

Could you be a little more specific about your lack of joy? What happened when you tried that line?

[ptha]

Sorry guys here's my document class it's a template for a thesis for my university:

tcd-phd-thesis.cls

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The code in my main tex file is

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\documentclass[twoside]{tcd-phd-thesis}
\usepackage[breaklinks]{hyperref}
\usepackage{cite}
\usepackage[style=altlist,
nonumberlist,
acronym,
toc]
{glossaries}

\input{acronyms}
\makeglossaries

\begin{document}

\input{title}

\frontmatter

\cleardoublepage

\input{declaration}
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Declaration}

\cleardoublepage
\input{summary}
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Summary}

\cleardoublepage
\input{acknowledgements}
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Acknowledgements}

\mainmatter

\renewcommand{\contentsname}{Table of Contents}
\tableofcontents

\renewcommand{\acronymname}{Abbreviations}
\printglossaries

\input introduction
\input crawling_and_classification
\input indexing
\input open_source_tools
\input research

\cleardoublepage
\phantomsection
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Bibliography}

\bibliographystyle{apalike}
\bibliography{references}

\end{document}

If I'm doing anything silly let me know.

[ptha]

Could you be a little more specific about your lack of joy? What happened when you tried that line?

When I tried the line above it just added an entry "Contents" to the toc, but it wasn't the actual table of contents - it listed the wrong page, and when clicking on the link it went to a blank page rather the the start of the toc.

[frabjous]

You don't want \mainmatter to be in between this, and where you actually insert the table of contents. You'll also need a \cleardoublepage and \phantomsection before it. Depending on what kind of page numbering you want for the TOC, you want either:

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\cleardoublepage
\phantomsection
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Acknowledgements}
\input{acknowledgements}
\cleardoublepage
\phantomsection
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Contents}
\renewcommand{\contentsname}{Table of Contents}
\tableofcontents

\mainmatter

or

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\cleardoublepage
\phantomsection
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Acknowledgements}
\input{acknowledgements}

\mainmatter
\cleardoublepage
\phantomsection
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Contents}
\renewcommand{\contentsname}{Table of Contents}
\tableofcontents

I can't test though, since a MWE is useless if it's using input commands to call documents we don't have access to.

[ptha]

You don't want \mainmatter to be in between this, and where you actually insert the table of contents. You'll also need a \cleardoublepage and \phantomsection before it. Depending on what kind of page numbering you want for the TOC, you want either:

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\cleardoublepage
\phantomsection
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Acknowledgements}
\input{acknowledgements}
\cleardoublepage
\phantomsection
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Contents}
\renewcommand{\contentsname}{Table of Contents}
\tableofcontents

\mainmatter

or

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\cleardoublepage
\phantomsection
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Acknowledgements}
\input{acknowledgements}

\mainmatter
\cleardoublepage
\phantomsection
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Contents}
\renewcommand{\contentsname}{Table of Contents}
\tableofcontents

I can't test though, since a MWE is useless if it's using input commands to call documents we don't have access to.

I went with your first code example - and it works! - it think it was the addition of the \phantomsection that did it, many thanks!
Peter.