Page Layout ⇒ Controlling page numbering in toc

[eskrut]

Hi,

I need to add a lot of sections to my toc, where each section has a different page number.

The hard way is to make a new page for each section, but as my sections are empty, I would like to avoid these extra pages.

I'm looking for something like this:

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\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{section title}

but where I also can enter the page number.

Can anyone help me?
Thanks

[frabjous]

I'm a bit perplexed by why it is necessary to specify the page numbers manually. A minimal working example would be helpful.

How do these "sections" appear in the document? With the starred \section*{...} command? If so, then consider using:

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\phantomsection%
\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{name of section}%
\section*{name of section}

If it is really necessary for some reason to specify the page numbers manually, then I guess you could use the \addtocontents command instead of \addcontentsline. Exactly the right syntax to use here would depend quite a bit on your document class and what packages, if any, are being used to format the table of contents. You might be able to get a sense of the right format by looking at the .aux file being generated. But for a relatively plain document in the article class, then something like:

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\addtocontents{toc}{\contentsline{section}{\numberline{9}Section Title}{15}}

Here, "9" is the section number, and "15" the page number. You could change "{9}" to "{}" to make the section number blank, and change 15 to whatever.

That seems to work for the article class with an otherwise untouched table of contents; no guarantees it would work elsewhere.

[eskrut]

Thanks for you reply, frabjous.

\addtoctontents was exactly the line I was looking for. I use report class, though, so I'm having some problems making it work. But I'm working on it

Just for enlightenment. This problem is a minor part of a bigger problem. I want to make cross reference between two different documents, and make chapters and sections etc. in one document appear in the toc of the second document.

So, that why I need \addtoccontents. However, I'm not quite sure if this is the right approach.

[gmedina]

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Just for enlightenment. This problem is a minor part of a bigger problem. I want to make cross reference between two different documents, and make chapters and sections etc. in one document appear in the toc of the second document...

Then it seems that you could use the pdfpages and/or (it's not clear to me if you want to merge the documents) xr packages to automate the process and prevent mistakes produced by your "manual" current approach.