\
chapter
command uses the counter secnumdepth
(described in Appendix C of the LaTeX manual):
.aux
file, which will appear in
the .toc
;
secnumdepth
counter is greater than or equal to
zero,
increase the counter for the chapter and write it out.
\setcounter{secnumdepth}{-1} \chapter{Preface}
Unfortunately, you have to set secnumdepth
back to its usual
value (which is 2 in the standard styles) before you do any ‘section’
which you want to be numbered.
\
frontmatter
and \
backmatter
commands.
The value of the counter tocdepth
controls which headings
will be finally printed in the table of contents; it is normally set
in the preamble and is a constant for the document. The package
tocvsec2 package takes the tedium out of changing the
secnumdepth
and/or the tocdepth
counter values at
any point in the body of the document; the commands (respectively)
\
setsecnumdepth
and \
settocdepth
make the changes based on
the name of the sectional unit (chapter
,
section
, etc.).
The package abstract (see
one-column abstracts) includes an option
to add the abstract
to the table of contents, while the
package tocbibind has options to include the table of
contents itself, the bibliography
, index
, etc., to
the table of contents.
The KOMA-Script classes have commands \
addchap
and
\
addled
, which work like \
chapter
and \
section
but
aren’t numbered. The memoir class incorporates the facilities
of all three of the abstract, tocbibind and
tocvsec2 packages.
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