LaTeX Beginner's Guide - Third Edition

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Managing Contents, Indexes, and Bibliography

So far, you have learned how to structure and format documents, create tables and images, and connect their parts using cross-references. This chapter shows how LaTeX builds on that by automatically collecting and presenting a document’s content in tables of contents, figures, tables, indexes, and bibliographies. LaTeX makes it easy to create all kinds of cross-referenced lists. For example, we’ve already seen that using just the \tableofcontents command gives you a clean, nicely formatted table of contents (TOC). It automatically collects the chapter and section headings, along with their page numbers, and generates a tidy list.

A TOC and an index help readers navigate a document. A list of tables ...