General ⇒ remove chapter numbers in table of contents

[webhead]

I used the Search, honest! But I couldn't find where this was discussed. I want to have only chapter names in a book, no chapter numbers. It's really a collection of letters and each letter stands alone, meaning they are not all on one particular topic.

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\documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{book}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\usepackage{makeidx} 

\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
\pagestyle{empty}
\pagestyle{headings}

\chapter{A Letter}
\blindtext
\chapter{Another Letter}
\blindtext
\chapter{Yet Another Letter}
\blindtext

\end{document}

[gmedina]

There are several discussions about the tocloft and titlesec packages that could be useful.

[webhead]

I wasn't able to find what I need in there, but I did find this elsewhere:

If you want to add a document chapter that has no a chapter number but appearing inside the table of content, the classical LATEX commands \chapter and \chapter* are inefficient. Indeed, \chapter add a numbered chapter inside the table of content, and \chapter* adds an unnumbered chapter but not inside the table of content.

To add a unnumbered chapter inside the table of content, you could use one of the commands:
\chaptertoc[toctitle]{title}
\chaptertoc*[toctitle]{title}
The commands
\chaptertoc and \chaptertoc* have the same effect except that \chaptertoc* aligns the chapter’s title to the other numbered chapters’ titles; and \chaptertoc not.

But I get an error message:

Undefined control sequence.
1.6 \chaptertoc
*[toctitle]{title}

I assume the new command replaces the existing chapter command, right?

[webhead]

Found the answer Here.

[webhead]

::sigh::

Except for one little problem: the word CONTENTS appears where the chapter name used to be on the individual pages of the chapters.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi,

you could use \markboth, \markright.

Stefan

[webhead]

That gets me close, but instead of the actual chapter name, it just says "Chapter".

[Stefan Kottwitz]

In that case show a small example how you are doing it at the moment.

Stefan

[webhead]

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\documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{book}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\usepackage{makeidx}

\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
\pagestyle{myheadings}
\markboth{\chaptername}{The Book Name}

\chapter*{A Letter} \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{A Letter}
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\chapter*{Another Letter} \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Another Letter}
\blindtext

\blindtext

\blindtext

\chapter*{Yet Another Letter} \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Yet Another Letter}
\blindtext

\blindtext

\blindtext

\blindtext

\end{document}

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Try

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\markboth{The Book Name}{The Book Name}

instead.

Stefan