Re: export to LaTeX with TOC but without numbers

[Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>]

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.

HTH,
eric

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