Andreas Leha <andreas.l...@med.uni-goettingen.de> writes: > Hi Eric, > > Eric S Fraga <e.fr...@ucl.ac.uk> writes: > >> Andreas Leha <andreas.l...@med.uni-goettingen.de> writes: >>> Eric S Fraga <e.fr...@ucl.ac.uk> writes: >> >> [...] >> >>>> There are workarounds but they involve using latex directly (to add >>>> entries to a TOC basically). >>> >>> I am aware of that. Sorry for being unclear. I would like to automate >>> exactly that. >>> >>> I use several LaTeX export classes and I would like that possibility >>> (TOC with unnumbered sections/subsections/...) in each of these classes. >>> Thus, I am searching for a (more) general approach, that I could 'switch on' >>> and have it insert the latex statement on its own. >>> >>> Best, >>> Andreas >> >> Ah, I see. Well, you could do something along these lines (completely >> untested and likely to be wrong...): >> >> #+latex_header: >> \newcommand{\mysection}[1]{\section*{#1}\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{#1}} >> >> and similar for subsection, subsubsection, ... >> >> Then customise org-latex-classes and replace, for instance, >> \\section*{%s} by \\mysection{%s}. >> >> However, you'll probably need to put a bit more TeX in the >> addcontentsline bit if you want some proper formatting (have a look at >> latex.ltx [around line 5659 in my version of this file] to see how >> content lines are handled by default...). >> >> Not trivial but also not impossible! >> >> I would suggest you look at latex-specific fora for answers to the more >> general question of generating tables of contents for unnumbered >> headings as I can imagine that there are simpler solutions. >> > > Thanks for these hints! When I follow that route I'll have to do > more work I guess: > 1. either I have to provide two versions of my org-latex-classes (one > for numbered and one for un-numbered cases) > 2. or I have to provide a filter or sth similar to replace sections > with mysections, correct?
I've gone the filter route before, with pretty good success: checking for the type of heading and adding toc statements. In my case I *wanted* something more complicated, though, using tocloft and \addtocontents. If you don't need all that then Nick's suggestion seems perfect.