How to remove the self-reference of the ToC from the ToC?

Question

I'm having a very weird problem. The following example should illustrate it quite right.

\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{memoir}    
\begin{document}
\frontmatter
  \tableofcontents
  \clearpage
\mainmatter
  \chapter{Chapter 1}
\end{document}

I've compiled it with xelatex but on the table of contents page, it is referencing the table of contents page as Contents, which is the header of that page as well. It does make sense to me to a certain extend. But I'd still like to know how to get rid of the self-reference.

possible duplicate of How to remove double "Contents" heading generated by memoir? — Brent.Longborough, Mar 08 '12 at 12:50
And duplicate of Hiding the “Table of Contents” page from Table of Contents (3879) (the first instance I think), and How to remove the self-reference of the ToC from the ToC?(10943). — mforbes, Mar 30 '12 at 02:23

score 37 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 12 '11 at 21:07

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\KeepFromToc helps in suppressing TOC entries for such \listof commands:

\begin{KeepFromToc}
  \tableofcontents
\end{KeepFromToc}

answered Feb 12 '11 at 21:07

Stefan Kottwitz

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It's a memoir class feature. – Stefan Kottwitz Feb 12 '11 at 22:21
I'll accept this as the answer as it's memoire specific which was my initial problem. It should be noted though that both answers provide a working solution. – angerman Feb 13 '11 at 09:45

score 35 · Answer 2 · edited Mar 30 '12 at 02:04

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Thanks to Martin Scharrer, I paid a more attention to the memoir class as the source of the issue.

A closer examination of the memoir README reveals \tableofcontents* as a solution. Seems logical, everything I want to hide gets the star.

edited Mar 30 '12 at 02:04

Caramdir

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answered Feb 12 '11 at 21:02

angerman

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I was just going to post \tableofcontents* as a solution. (I found it by \show\tableofcontents, NOT be reading the 583 pages-manual.). – Martin Scharrer Feb 12 '11 at 21:07
Well, that doesn't work for me in the memoir class :| I can see that it should work according to v1.61803398, but... – Rasmus Bækgaard Sep 08 '15 at 09:26

score 19 · Answer 3 · edited Mar 08 '16 at 16:32

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I suggest you, if using the tocbibind package:

\usepackage[nottoc]{tocbibind}

edited Mar 08 '16 at 16:32

Werner

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answered Mar 08 '16 at 16:05

Juan Carlos Solar

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Did you actually test this? – daleif Mar 08 '16 at 16:14
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Worked for me, using a class based off of report. In my case, tocbibind (which I was using to include my figure and table lists in the TOC) was what caused the TOC to appear in the TOC in the first place. – golvok Aug 10 '19 at 00:57
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Works for me on Overleaf with document class article. – Morten Engelsmann Aug 04 '20 at 15:32
Worked for me, too. I am using the scrbook class. – Sven Büchel Aug 19 '21 at 09:13
This worked for me using book class. Issue was I had used \usepackage{tocbibind} to get the bibliography to appear in the table of contents, without realizing until much later that it made "contents" appear there too, until adding [nottoc]. – WillG Sep 11 '23 at 22:20

score 16 · Answer 4 · edited Mar 08 '12 at 13:08

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I had a similar problem, but with the article class. Neither of the solutions above work for this class, so after much searching I used the advice of Martin above and searched the article class and found that I can simply not use \tableofcontents, and instead use:

\makeatletter
\@starttoc{toc}
\makeatother

This doesn't create a section for the table of contents, so the problem goes away.

Thought I would post this here in case anyone else has a similar problem.

edited Mar 08 '12 at 13:08

diabonas

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answered Mar 08 '12 at 12:30

Ashley

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This is useful for cases where you don't want the "Contents" header above the TOC. – Alex Hirzel Sep 09 '12 at 17:24

score 7 · Answer 5 · answered Oct 11 '16 at 13:55

The following works for supressing the self-referencing TOC entry, and is not specific to memoir (I'm using scrbook):

\addtocontents{toc}{\protect\setcounter{tocdepth}{-1}}
\tableofcontents
\addtocontents{toc}{\protect\setcounter{tocdepth}{3}}

You can of course replace the 3 with whatever tocdepth you prefer to have.

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