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I am trying to follow the formatting guide of my course. After trying to find some information on this, I have reached no solution. I would appreciate any and all help towards this.

I am using the article class.

The image below shows the formatting I need to follow.

desired output

OppositeDragon
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    If not only hiding/showing but also the formatting of the entries is part of the question, have a look at packages like etoc, tocbasic, tocloft etc.. There are already several questions/answers about using these on TEX.SX. And please always show a minimal working example and use it to explain the wanted changes. – cabohah Jan 03 '24 at 09:43
  • Hiding section levels on toc is only part of the question. Formatting the hierarchy of sections is the most important. I was looking for that on google, but did not find any answers, I was probably using the wrong keywords as I know pretty much nothing about this topic or Latex in general. I thought tha the image provided was enough to convey the idea and show how the document should look when applying the desired formatting.

    @cabohah thanks for the recommendations, as they provide me with an starting point.

     – OppositeDragon Jan 03 '24 at 14:40

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Consider using the report (or book) class that provides a \chapter, since that's what is displayed in your image.

The following minimal example provides the levels you need in the following commands:

  1. \chapter
  2. \section
  3. \subsection
  4. \subsubsection
  5. \paragraph

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\documentclass{report}

\usepackage{lipsum}


\setcounter{secnumdepth}{3}% Show sectional unit numbering up to level 3 (\subsubsection)


\makeatletter
\renewcommand\paragraph{@startsection{paragraph}{4}{\z@}%
                                        {3.25ex @plus1ex @minus.2ex}%
                                        {-1em}%
                                        {\normalfont\normalsize\bfseries\textbullet\quad}}
\let\old@seccntformat@seccntformat
\renewcommand{@seccntformat}[1]{%
  \csname the#1\endcsname
  \ifnum\pdfstrcmp{#1}{subsubsection}=0 .\fi% Add period after \subsubsection number
  \quad
}
\makeatother


\renewcommand{\thesubsubsection}{\alph{subsubsection}}% Update formatting of \subsubsection heading numbering


\begin{document}


\setcounter{chapter}{3}% Just for this example
\chapter{First level}


\lipsum[1][1]


\setcounter{section}{2}% Just for this example
\section{Second level}


\lipsum[1][2]


\setcounter{subsection}{5}% Just for this example
\subsection{Third level}


\lipsum[1][3]


\subsubsection{Fourth level}


\lipsum[1][4]


\paragraph{Fifth level}


\lipsum[1][5]


\end{document}
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