How to make chapter*, section* and subsection* appear in the table of contents

Question

I need to produce a PDF document in which I need some "chapters" (along with its sections and subsections) to be non-numbered but still included in the ToC.

This is for my master thesis. I'm using the book document class, because I don't like memoir defaults.

If I use \chapter*, then LaTeX remove the chapter from the ToC. But I'm required to have those as well in the ToC. Furthermore, the headings (fancy) are not changed with \chapter*.

The overall structure of the thesis is:

\maketitle %% A custom one \frontmatter \tableofcontents \listoftables \listoffigures  \chapter*{Abstract} \chapter*{Introduction} %% This "chapter" presents the whole thesis  \mainmatter  %% Here the real chapters are written  \appendix %% Appendixes here  %% bibliography 

How can I make \chapter*, \section*, and \subsection* to appear in the ToC and to modify the headers?

I think I may be using some packages that interfere with the way headers and footers are generated. The answer of smilingthax gets the first part of the question responded: I have now my \chapter*s on the TOC.

This is my full preamble:

\usepackage[sort&compress,round,semicolon]{natbib} \usepackage{babel} \usepackage{setspace} %% inputenc so we can write in spanish \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}  \usepackage{fixltx2e} % LaTeX patches, \textsubscript \usepackage{cmap} % fix search and cut-and-paste in PDF \usepackage{ifthen} %% \usepackage{float} % float configuration %% \floatplacement{figure}{TH} % place figures here definitely  %% fontenc so we can use TrueType fonts \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage{lmodern} \usepackage{garamond} \usepackage{graphicx} \usepackage{titlesec}  \usepackage[table]{xcolor} %% Custom colors \definecolor{blue}{rgb}{0.2,0.2,0.95} \definecolor{green}{rgb}{0.2,0.95,0.2} \definecolor{red}{rgb}{0.95,0.2,0.2} \definecolor{cyan}{rgb}{0,0,0.95} \definecolor{ligthred}{rgb}{1, 0, 0} \definecolor{black}{rgb}{0, 0, 0}  \definecolor{shade}{HTML}{D4D7FE} %light blue shade  % Margins \usepackage[left=0.9in,top=1in,right=0.7in,bottom=1in]{geometry}   \usepackage[pdftex, colorlinks=true, citecolor=ligthred,   urlcolor=blue]{hyperref}  \widowpenalty9000 \clubpenalty7000  \usepackage{titlesec} \newcommand{\bigrule}{\titlerule[0.5mm]}  \renewcommand{\rmdefault}{bch}   \titleformat{\chapter}[display] {\bfseries\Huge} {\garamond % DESCOMENTAR PARA SUBIR LOS CAPITULOS \vspace{-1.125in} \titlerule \filleft \Large\chaptertitlename\ \Large\thechapter}{0mm} {\filleft}[\vspace{0.5mm} \bigrule]  \let\cite=\citep  \usepackage{fancyhdr} \pagestyle{fancy} \fancyhf{}  %% Clears all headers  % admonition (specially marked topic) \providecommand{\DUadmonition}[2][class-arg]{%   % try \DUadmonition#1{#2}:   \ifcsname DUadmonition#1\endcsname%     \csname DUadmonition#1\endcsname{#2}%   \else     \begin{center}       \fbox{\parbox{0.9\textwidth}{#2}}     \end{center}   \fi }  % title for topics, admonitions and sidebar \providecommand*{\DUtitle}[2][class-arg]{%   % call \DUtitle#1{#2} if it exists:   \ifcsname DUtitle#1\endcsname%     \csname DUtitle#1\endcsname{#2}%   \else     \smallskip\noindent\textbf{#2}\smallskip%   \fi }  % error admonition title \providecommand*{\DUtitleerror}[1]{\DUtitle{\color{red}#1}}  % fieldlist environment \ifthenelse{\isundefined{\DUfieldlist}}{   \newenvironment{DUfieldlist}%     {\quote\description}     {\enddescription\endquote} }{}  % legend \ifthenelse{\isundefined{\DUlegend}}{   \newenvironment{DUlegend}{\small}{} }{}  %%% Fallback definitions for Docutils-specific commands % numeric or symbol footnotes with hyperlinks \providecommand*{\DUfootnotemark}[3]{%   \hyperlink{#2}{\textsuperscript{#3}}\raisebox{1em}{\label{#1}}% }  \providecommand{\DUfootnotetext}[4]{%   \begingroup%   \renewcommand{\thefootnote}{%     \protect\hyperlink{#2}{#3}}%   \protect\raisebox{1em}{\protect\label{#1}}%   \footnotetext{#4}%   \endgroup% }  \usepackage{booktabs} \usepackage{multirow} \usepackage{longtable} \newlength{\DUtablewidth} % internal use in tables   \usepackage{tikz} \usepackage{bbding}  \usetikzlibrary{arrows,fit} \usepackage{amsmath,bm,times} \newcommand{\mx}[1]{\mathbf{\bm{#1}}} % Matrix command \newcommand{\vc}[1]{\mathbf{\bm{#1}}} % Vector command 

Answer 1

I don't think an specialized command exists for that. But you can use

  \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{#1} 

to add it to the TOC. BTW, I didn't have problems with \chapter* and fancy, so I used:

\newcommand\chap[1]{%   \chapter*{#1}%   \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{#1}} 

Answer 2

Variations on this question have been asked and answered several times on the TeX-specific sister site:

• Creating unnumbered chapters/sections (plus adding them to the ToC and/or header)
• \tableofcontents does not list the unnumbered chapter
• How to use \section*{something} without removing it from the Table of Contents?
• Redefine \section* so it behaves exactly as \section except leaves out the number
• ...

I'm going to copy over Werner's answer to the last of those, because it demonstrates a different technique from any of the existing answers to this question: redefine \section so that the only effect of \section* is to skip printing the section numbers. This will work even when sectioning commands are being issued from the guts of packages you don't control.

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[...] Redefine \section to capture and condition on when the starred-version is used. Upon finding \section*, issue it just like you would \section, but remove the number-printing mechanism through an appropriate setting of the counter secnumdepth.

xparse provides an easy interface for (re)defining commands that may have a starred version, as well as an optional argument.

\usepackage{xparse}  \let\oldsection\section \makeatletter \newcounter{@secnumdepth} \RenewDocumentCommand{\section}{s o m}{%   \IfBooleanTF{#1}     {\setcounter{@secnumdepth}{\value{secnumdepth}}% Store secnumdepth      \setcounter{secnumdepth}{0}% Print only up to \chapter numbers      \oldsection{#3}% \section*      \setcounter{secnumdepth}{\value{@secnumdepth}}}% Restore secnumdepth     {\IfValueTF{#2}% \section        {\oldsection[#2]{#3}}% \section[.]{..}        {\oldsection{#3}}}% \section{..} } \makeatother 

(To do the same thing to \chapter, \subsection, etc., search-and-replace section appropriately, and adjust the temporary value used for secnumdepth.)