hide an entry from Toc in latex

latex tableofcontents
mjsr picture mjsr · May 7, 2010 · Viewed 73.5k times · Source

I would like to know how I can hide a section from the table of contents but without loosing the section number in the body of the document. For example, in this tex file I loose the number for hide, and all the sequences are damaged:

\documentclass{article}

\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
\section{uno}
\section{dos}
\section*{hide}
\section{tres}
\end{document}

Answer

Ivan Andrus picture Ivan Andrus · May 7, 2010

I think you are looking for 

\section*{hide}
\addtocounter{section}{1}

or make it into a command:

\newcommand{\toclesssection}[1]{\section*{#1}\addtocounter{section}{1}}

EDIT:

Okay, I think I understand what is wanted now (and it makes more sense then the answer I gave). Here is a command that you can use to suppress adding a section, subsection, etc. to the TOC. The idea is to temporarily disable \addcontentsline.

\newcommand{\nocontentsline}[3]{}
\newcommand{\tocless}[2]{\bgroup\let\addcontentsline=\nocontentsline#1{#2}\egroup}
...
\tocless\section{hide}
\tocless\subsection{subhide}

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