Table of Contents

Since L^ATEX already has all of this information about the structure of the document, it can easily collect it and build a table of contents. It will only do this if you explicitly tell it to. L^ATEX will put the table of contents wherever you include the line

\tableofcontents

in your document. To put the table of contents at the beginning (where people expect to find it) just put it in after the \maketitle command. You should run L^ATEX at least twice after you add the table of contents, since it takes two or three tries to get the table of contents right--once to write all the page numbers out to a file⁹, and a second time to include those numbers at the beginning of the document, and possibly a third time if the number of pages the table of contents occupies changes.

When you make major changes, L^ATEX may tell you that you need to run it twice. It is always a good idea to do this before you print the final version of a document, just to make sure everything is correct.