Re: export to LaTeX with TOC but without numbers

[Andreas Leha <andreas.leha@med.uni-goettingen.de>]

Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:

> 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.


The more I think about it, the more I get the impression, that it would
have been faster (even given my elisp 'skills') to write such a
filter than to raise that here.  And I might even need a similar and
more complicated TOC handling soon, so it would have been a good start.

Anyway, Nick's suggestion works for now.  As I said in the other post,
it works at least as long as I do not want odt as well...

Best,
Andreas