A table of contents is produced with the
\tableofcontents command. You
put the command right where you want the table of contents to go;
LaTeX does the rest for you.
Entries are taken from the Sectioning commands.
\tableofcontents produces a heading, but it does not
automatically start a new page. If you want a new page after the
table of contents, include a
\newpage command after the
\tableofcontents command.
There are similar commands \listoffigures and
\listoftables for
producing a list of figures and a list of tables, respectively.
Everything works exactly the same as for the table of contents.
NOTE: Information for these tables and lists are placed in an auxiliary file
and you may have to run latex twice to get it to come out correctly.
If you want any of these items to be generated, you can not
have the \nofiles command in your document as that would suppress
writing of the auxiliary files.
See also