Re: export to LaTeX with TOC but without numbers

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

Andreas Leha <andreas.leha@med.uni-goettingen.de> writes:

> Hi Eric,
>
> Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:
>
>> Andreas Leha <andreas.leha@med.uni-goettingen.de> writes:
>>> Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>>> There are workarounds but they involve using latex directly (to add
>>>> entries to a TOC basically).
>>>
>>> I am aware of that.  Sorry for being unclear.  I would like to automate
>>> exactly that.
>>>
>>> I use several LaTeX export classes and I would like that possibility
>>> (TOC with unnumbered sections/subsections/...) in each of these classes.
>>> Thus, I am searching for a (more) general approach, that I could 'switch on'
>>> and have it insert the latex statement on its own.
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Andreas
>>
>> Ah, I see.  Well, you could do something along these lines (completely
>> untested and likely to be wrong...):
>>
>> #+latex_header: \newcommand{\mysection}[1]{\section*{#1}\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{#1}}
>>
>> and similar for subsection, subsubsection, ...
>>
>> Then customise org-latex-classes and replace, for instance,
>> \\section*{%s} by \\mysection{%s}.
>>
>> However, you'll probably need to put a bit more TeX in the
>> addcontentsline bit if you want some proper formatting (have a look at
>> latex.ltx [around line 5659 in my version of this file] to see how
>> content lines are handled by default...).
>>
>> Not trivial but also not impossible!
>>
>> I would suggest you look at latex-specific fora for answers to the more
>> general question of generating tables of contents for unnumbered
>> headings as I can imagine that there are simpler solutions.
>>
>
> Thanks for these hints!  When I follow that route I'll have to do
> more work I guess:
> 1. either I have to provide two versions of my org-latex-classes (one
>    for numbered and one for un-numbered cases)
> 2. or I have to provide a filter or sth similar to replace sections
>    with mysections, correct?

I've gone the filter route before, with pretty good success: checking
for the type of heading and adding toc statements. In my case I *wanted*
something more complicated, though, using tocloft and \addtocontents. If
you don't need all that then Nick's suggestion seems perfect.