General ⇒ Can I add a section to table of contents without a number

[oltarasenko]

Hi.

I am using eskdx package.

Every new section in my document starts with \section{Name} command.

But according to our formating rules some sections shouldn't have numbers (e.g. Introduction or Conclusions and Recommendations)

But if I will create them with \section*{name} command, they will not appear in my TOC

The question:

How to create sections without numbers and add them to TOC (without numbers too)

Really need your help

Thanks
Oleg

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Oleg,

welcome to the LaTeX Community board! You could use \addcontentsline, for example:

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\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{Introduction or Conclusions and Recommendations}

or even \addtocontents.

Stefan

[oltarasenko]

Thanks a lot! You answered so quickly!

[oltarasenko]

Please help

I added the line but no text was added to TOC

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  \begin{document}
  \maketitle
  \addcontentsline{toc}{section}{Introductions}
  \tableofcontents
 

 \include{Intro}
 \include{Chap1}

Where the section introductions (it should be without number in TOC) sits in the \include{Intro} file
I only need to add a section without number to TOC (with the page number where it appeared)


Please help

[oltarasenko]

Not sure if I am doing it correctly.

Trying to add it this way:
Directly on the file I write
\addtocontents{toc}{section*}{Introduction}
instead of \section*{Introduction}

But get this:

[1{/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-var/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.map}]
(./main.toc

! LaTeX Error: Something's wrong--perhaps a missing \item.

See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.
Type H <return> for immediate help.
...

l.3 ...IeC {\cyrn }\IeC {\cyrn }\IeC {\cyrii }}{6}

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Oleg,

try this minimal example, compile it 2 times:

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\documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{article}
\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
\bigskip
\section*{Introduction}
\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{Introduction}
Text
\end{document}

The section Introduction is not numbered and appears without number in the toc.

The error message could mean something else. Could you post your problematic code line? Do you use cyrillic symbols inside the section title? Maybe this has to be protected. Show me the line containing the error.

Stefan

[oltarasenko]

Hi!


People from the CyrTeX-ru@vsu.ru already helped me! Thanks a lot!!!

The solution is:

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\section*{Введение}
\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{Введение}

Directly in the section.

They also recommended me to use this in the preamble of the document

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% Переопределение полужирного шрифта в СОДЕРЖАНИИ и настройка лидеров
\makeatletter
\renewcommand*\l@section[2]{%
   \ifnum \c@tocdepth >\z@
     \addpenalty\@secpenalty
     \addvspace{1.0em \@plus\p@}%
     \setlength\@tempdima{1.5em}%
     \begingroup
       \parindent \z@ \rightskip \@pnumwidth
       \parfillskip -\@pnumwidth
       \leavevmode %\bfseries
       \advance\leftskip\@tempdima
       \hskip -\leftskip
       #1\nobreak
       \leaders\hbox to .82em{\hss.\hss}\hfil  % \hfill
       \nobreak\hb@xt@\@pnumwidth{\hss #2}\par
     \endgroup
   \fi}
\makeatother
%%%%%%

Works cool now!! Thanks!