I suspect that the custom university thesis class which is linked to below might include something prohibiting implementation of a basic minitoc call.
The .cls can be found here
The code made available at this url also includes an mwe for employing the .cls. I very quickly inserted the commands: \usepackage{minitoc} (placed in the usual spot), \dominitoc (placed before where I think \tableofcontents will be called) and \minitoc (placed after a \chapter{} call) as suggested by the minitoc documentation.
I don't observe a minitoc. I am compiling with PdfLaTeX.
I recognize that the thesis class is designed to achieve standard formatting and that minitoc's may be unwanted. I see it's implementation as useful for structuring the document and easy enough to disable.
% simple.tex -- a very simple thesis document for demonstrating % dalthesis.cls class file \documentclass[12pt]{dalthesis}
\usepackage{minitoc}
\begin{document}
\title{The title} \author{Noah Body}
% The following degrees are included in the current dalthesis.cls % class file: \mcs % options are \mcs, \macs, \mec, \mhi, \phd, and \bcshon
% If you degree is not included, you can set several options manually. % The following example shows the parameters for the \mcs degree. % However, if you need to set these parameters manually, please check % the correct names with the Faculty of Graduate Studies, and let the % maintainer of this class file know (Vlado Keselj, vlado@cs.dal.ca). % MCS Example:
\degree{Doctor of Mixology} %\degreeinitial{M.C.Sc.} \faculty{Science} \dept{Contemporary Home Economics}
% Month and Year of Defence \defencemonth{June}\defenceyear{2013}
\dedicate{Optionally, the thesis can be dedicated to someone, and the student can enter the dedication content here.}
% This sample thesis contains no tables nor figures, so there is no % need to include lists of tables and figures in the front matter: \nolistoftables \nolistoffigures
\dominitoc
\frontmatter
\begin{abstract} This is a test document. \end{abstract}
\begin{acknowledgements} Thanks to all the little people who make me look tall. \end{acknowledgements}
\mainmatter
\chapter{Introduction}
Get it done! Use reference material by Lamport~\cite{latex-by-lamport} or Gooses, Mittelback, and Samarin~\cite{latex-companion}.
\chapter{Doing It}
\minitoc
\section{Getting Ready}
Get all the parts that I need. I can throw in a whole pile of terms like preparation, methodology, forethought, and analysis as examples for me to use in the future.
\section{Next Step}
Do it!
Of course, you have to have pictures to show how you did it to make people understand things better.
\chapter{Conclusion}
Did it!
\bibliographystyle{plain} \bibliography{simple}
\end{document}
I note that I do see a file called mwe.mtc4 the content of which looks like:
{\reset@font\mtcSfont\mtc@string\contentsline{section}{\noexpand \leavevmode \numberline {2.1}Getting Ready}{\reset@font\mtcSfont 2}}
{\reset@font\mtcSfont\mtc@string\contentsline{section}{\noexpand \leavevmode \numberline {2.2}Next Step}{\reset@font\mtcSfont 2}}
A series of these files are being generated: mwe.mtc, mwe.mtc0, mwe.mtc1, mwe.mtc2, mwe.mtc3, mwe.mtc4, mwe.mtc5 most of which have size 0 KB, while only mwe.mtc4 has content. Encouraging, but I don't understand why the minitoc does not appear after the chapter call.
