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I've got a problem with my tables of contents (both local and global...)

I want to include a section line in my main toc that does not appear in the minitoc of the previous chapter. Also I would like this line to be separated from the sections of the previous chapter in the main toc by at least one empty line.

I tried to make a minimum working example, in which you'll see that the "Figures" line is added to the minitoc of chapter 2 and seems to belong to chapter 2 in the main toc.

\documentclass[a4paper, 12pt, twoside]{report}

\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{minitoc}
    \setcounter{minitocdepth}{2}

\begin{document}

    \dominitoc

    \tableofcontents

    \chapter{The important things}
        \minitoc
        \section{foo}
        \section{bar}

    \chapter{Minor stuff}
        \minitoc
        \section{foo}
        \section{bar}

    \listoffigures
    \addcontentsline{toc}{section}{Figures}

\end{document}
Antoine G.
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By saying \addcontentsline{toc}{section}{Figures}, the OP is adding a "Figures" section to the existing chapter, which is chapter 2. Thus, it shows up in the toc and minitoc under chapter 2. The fix is to add the figure-list to the toc as its own chapter, not a section, which is accomplished with \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Figures}.

Here is the MWE:

\documentclass[a4paper, 12pt, twoside]{report}

\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{minitoc}
    \setcounter{minitocdepth}{2}

\begin{document}

    \dominitoc

    \tableofcontents

    \chapter{The important things}
        \minitoc
        \section{foo}
        \section{bar}

    \chapter{Minor stuff}
        \minitoc
        \section{foo}
        \section{bar}

    \listoffigures
    \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Figures}

\end{document}

Of course, that places the "Figures" in the toc in the style of a chapter:

enter image description here

One can manually force it to look like a section with the following:

\documentclass[a4paper, 12pt, twoside]{report}

\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{minitoc}
    \setcounter{minitocdepth}{2}
\makeatletter
\newcommand \Dotfill {\leavevmode \cleaders \hb@xt@ .79em{\hss .\hss }\hfill \kern \z@}
\makeatother
\begin{document}

    \dominitoc

    \tableofcontents

    \chapter{The important things}
        \minitoc
        \section{foo}
        \section{bar}

    \chapter{Minor stuff}
        \minitoc
        \section{foo}
        \section{bar}

    \listoffigures
%    \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Figures}
    \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{\mdseries\hspace{1.5em}Figures\Dotfill}

\end{document}

enter image description here

For the \Dotfill, I employed the answer at How to change dot spacing in \dotfill?

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Steven B. Segletes
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  • I understand the logic and to be honest I tried this before. But if it's possible I would like the "Figures" line to appear indented and formatted as a section in the main table of contents. Maybe I should add it as a chapter (so that minitoc knows not to take it into account) and then change its individual formatting in the table of contents ? – Antoine G. Jul 29 '15 at 17:07
  • @AntoineG. Please see revision. – Steven B. Segletes Jul 29 '15 at 17:46
  • (+1): One should keep in mind, that minitoc is unmaintained basically for years now, which is quite sad, because it has very good features –  Jul 29 '15 at 18:01