General ⇒ Table of contents cannot compile with hypperref

[Tissie]

Alright, I prepared a minimal example, please see attached .rar file

If you pdftexify it should work now. But if you remove the % in front of \tableofcontents on line 128 in Thesis_Main_Error.tex I get the error again.

I appreciate the help.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

As I said in my second post - it produces the error, but after I removed the Thesis_Main_Error.toc it worked. You can try.

The .toc file originally contains:

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\contentsline {chapter}{Introduction}{{\pageref {chap:Introduction}}}
\contentsline {part}{I\hspace {1em}Testpart}{1}{part.1}
\contentsline {chapter}{\numberline {1}TestChapter}{3}{chapter.1}
\contentsline {section}{\numberline {1.1}Introduction}{3}{section.1.1}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {1.1.1}blabla}{3}{subsection.1.1.1}

You can see, in the first line there's a parameter missing, which means the hyperref anchor. This line is generated in a wrong way, perhaps by calling or redefining \addcontentsline or \addtocontents incorrectly.

Perhaps check your document for that. Or, modify the minimal example in a way that it brings the error also when the .toc file has been deleted, i.e. would be generated again.

Stefan

[Tissie]

Okay, it does not work with deleting the ToC file in my real document. I reproduced this error in the minimal example by including a chapter where I call \addtocontents (see line 150 in the new Thesis_main_error)

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Yes, that's the line where you use \contentsline without the argument which is added by hyperref:

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\addtocontents{toc}{\protect \contentsline
  {chapter}{List of Publications}{{\protect \pageref{mypubs}}}}

Add another argument, which can be taken by \contentsline, such as simply {}:

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\addtocontents{toc}{\protect \contentsline
  {chapter}{List of Publications}{{\protect \pageref{mypubs}}}{}}

As guessed, a simple correction fixes it. I just guessed such a problematic line would be in your style file, not in the main document. Such things should be macros, not used repeatedly in the author part of a document.

Stefan

[Tissie]

Awesome, we are getting close, now I can compile. But my bibliography entrance in the ToC displays the page on which the bibliography ends.

My code for this is:

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\bibliographystyle{bibgen}
\footnotesize{\bibliography{library}}
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Bibliography}

In the ToC it says that Biblio is on page 56 (the last page of the Biblio), but it actually starts on page 49.

Can I get it to read it correctly?

[Stefan Kottwitz]

That's because you made the entry after the bibliography. Make it before, and insert \cleardoublepage or \clearpage also before to ensure that you don't make the entry too early.

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\cleardoublepage
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Bibliography}
{
  \footnotesize
  \bibliography{library}
}

Note, \footnotesize and similar font size commands are declarations and don't have arguments. They work like switches. The effect can be limited by an environment, or a group or braces, respectively, as I did here.

Stefan

[Tissie]

Super, it works now.

Thank you very much for your help, Stefan - I really appreciate it
Now with this solved I can focus on the actual writing.. hehe

Kind regards,
Tissie