LaTeX Beginners Guide

Time for action – adding a table of contents

We shall create a table of contents based on our numbered headings.

1. Let's remove the options landscape and twocolumn. We also don't load the setspace package. Add the command \tableofcontents right after \begin{document}. Our code shall now be:

   \documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{book}
   \usepackage[english]{babel}
   \usepackage{blindtext}
   \usepackage[a4paper, inner=1.5cm, outer=3cm, top=2cm,
   bottom=3cm, bindingoffset=1cm]{geometry}
   \begin{document}
   \tableofcontents \chapter{Exploring the page layout} In this chapter we will study the layout of pages. \section{Some filler text} \blindtext \section{A lot more filler text} More dummy text will follow. \subsection{Plenty of filler text} \blindtext[10] \end{document} ...