Re: table of contents and numbers

[Julian Burgos <julian@hafro.is>]

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

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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