Text Formatting ⇒ Starred sections

[marcdein]

I want some of the sections in my document to have an asterisk next to the title, to indicate that they can be omitted on a first reading. Obviously, one way of doing this is to have ($\ast$) right after the title. However, the asterisks then appear in the table of contents as well. Is there a more standard way of doing this, perhaps?

[Stefan Kottwitz]

The problem with the table of contents (and page header marks) can be solved by using the optional argument of \section:

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\section[A hard topic]{A hard topic$\ast$}

I would define a macro for this, such as \skipsection.

A more standard way, however, may be using a footnote in the header (not in the ToC).

Stefan

[marcdein]

Thanks!