Re: Add ability to force-enable TOC

[Matt Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org>]

Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi@gmail.com> writes:

> On Wed, Sep 20, 2017, 6:25 AM Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
> wrote:
>
>     I didn't say it was an unusual case. I said it didn't cover all
>     the use-cases. Maybe you are really needing a subset of the
>     initial feature.
>
> Understood. 
>
>     IOW, do mixed numbered/unnumbered headings make sense in TOC?
>
> Correct. That does not make sense to me. That is not my use case. 

I support the use case of unnumbered table of contents.

In addition (although this is probably too much of a corner case to
support officially in Org Mode), it is common in the U.S. to use a mix
of numbered and unnumbered headings in books. One accomplishes this in
LaTeX with the following:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
\tableofcontents

\chapter*{Introduction}
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Introduction}

\chapter{A Chapter}

\chapter{Another Chapter}

\chapter*{Conclusion}
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Introduction}
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

The resulting Table of Contents looks like this...

Introduction            3
1 A Chapter             5
2 Another Chapter       7
Conclusion              9

Best,
Matt