Re: Include TOC in PDF export?

[Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>]

Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com> wrote:

> Michael Hannon <jm_hannon@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > Greetings.  I'm exporting a document to both HTML and PDF.  In the
> > HTML version, I get a table of contents.  In the PDF version, I do NOT
> > get a table of contents.  The appended text illustrates the problem. 
> > I'd like to get the TOC in both.
> > 
> 
> num:nil causes unnumbered sections in latex (\section*{...})  which are
> not entered into the .toc file (that's a latex limitation, not an
> org-mode one), so the latex exporter wants both num: and toc: to be
> enabled before it produces a table of contents.
> 
> I think the only way to get a TOC is to set num:t. You can probably
> rewrite a chunk of latex code so that unnumbered sections etc end up in
> the .toc file, but I think it would be a fairly major undertaking.
> 

There is a trick (I found it in the titlesec doc) that allows you
to get unnumbered sections without using the \section* forms:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
#+TITLE:
#+OPTIONS: num:t ^:{} toc:5
#+LaTeX_HEADER: \setcounter{secnumdepth}{0}
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Since num: is t, the latex exporter will produce a TOC and the \setcounter
will suppress section numbers. Unfortunately, that won't work with HTML
though: the sections will be numbered (unless some other trick can be found
there - maybe some CSS magic, although I wouldn't know where to start with 
that).

Nick