Re: [PATCH]: ox-latex.eel: handle unnumbered sections in TOC correctly

[Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>]

Pedro Andres Aranda Gutierrez <paaguti@gmail.com> writes:

>>    (1) At the moment, some export backends do not obey this
>> specification.  For example, LaTeX export excludes every unnumbered
>> headline from the table of contents.
>>
>
> But this happens because of the way LaTeX works...

Sure. But I thought that your patch is working around the LaTeX defaults
by adding \addcontentsline{toc}...

> So, ox-latex is technically not right when it ignores unnumbered
>> headings in TOC.
>>
>
> The basis is there... we might need to rewrite (org-latex-headings) a lot -
> I fear.

Doesn't your patch have everything needed to add unnumbered headings to
TOC? AFAIU, all we need ti simply adding \addcontentsline{toc}... not
just when there is ALT_TITLE attribute, but also when UNNUMBERED is t
(but not "notoc"). It is just that in the latter case we use actual
title in place of ALT_TITLE.

> BTW, since my patch produces correct LaTeX code vs. the current state,
> could you please apply it to avoid the error which triggered all this until
> we get something better.
> The documentation would need to modified slightly to

I can. I just feel that the patch is one step away from being fully
consistent with other export backends. Unless I miss something.

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