Re: table of contents and numbers

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

Julian Burgos <julian@hafro.is> wrote:

> Thanks for the answer Nick.  So to get a TOC without numbers I would
> need to edit the TEX file directly, right?
> 

You could do that, but you could also use John's idea below to add
\addcontentsline after each heading in the org file.

Nick

> On mið 11.apr 2012 19:00, John Hendy wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 12:12 PM, Nick Dokos<nicholas.dokos@hp.com>  wrote:
> >> Julian Burgos<julian@hafro.is>  wrote:
> >>
> >>> Dear list,
> >>>
> >>> My apologies for another very basic question.  I'm wondering why I do
> >>> not get a table of contents when exporting the following file as pdf
> >>>
> >>> ---start org file -----------
> >>> #+TITLE: Test
> >>> #+OPTIONS:  toc:t num:nil
> >>>
> >>> * Part 1
> >>> Some text
> >>>
> >>> * Part 2
> >>> Some more text
> >>> ---end org file -----------
> >>>
> >>> I do get the TOC when exporting as hmtl, though.
> >>>
> >> I believe it's because of a rather technical latex limitation: latex
> >> writes TOC entries into a .toc file, which is then read back in when the
> >> \tableofcontents macro is expanded. When you specify num:nil asking for
> >> unnumbered sections, the latex exporter produces \section* markers,
> >> instead of the standard \section markers. But when latex processes
> >> those, it does not add anything to the .toc file. If org added a
> >> \tableofcontents, you would get just the title and an empty TOC. In
> >> order to prevent that, the latex exporter requires that both toc and num
> >> be non-nil - see l.1487 ff in lisp/org-latex.el:
> >>
> >> ,----
> >> |      ...
> >> |      ;; table of contents
> >> |      (when (and org-export-with-toc
> >> |               (plist-get opt-plist :section-numbers))
> >> |        (funcall org-export-latex-format-toc-function
> >> |                 ...))
> >> `----
> > One can work around this by manually adding sections under each headline.
> >
> > -----
> > #+options: num:nil toc:t
> >
> > #+text: \tableofcontents
> >
> > * Introduction
> > \addcontentsline{toc}{section}{Introduction}
> > -----
> >
> > Tedious for long documents, but does work.
> >
> >
> > John
> >
> >> The HTML exporter does this "by hand", so to speak, so it is not as
> >> constrained and can do the "right" thing.
> >>
> >> Nick
> >>
> >>
> >>
> 
> 
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