How to make chapter, section and subsection* appear in the table of contents

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I need to produce a PDF document in which I need some "chapters" (along with its sections and subsections) to be non-numbered but still included in the ToC.

This is for my master thesis. I'm using the book document class, because I don't like memoir defaults.

If I use \chapter*, then LaTeX remove the chapter from the ToC. But I'm required to have those as well in the ToC. Furthermore, the headings (fancy) are not changed with \chapter*.

The overall structure of the thesis is:

\maketitle %% A custom one
\frontmatter
\tableofcontents
\listoftables
\listoffigures

\chapter*{Abstract}
\chapter*{Introduction} %% This "chapter" presents the whole thesis

\mainmatter

%% Here the real chapters are written

\appendix
%% Appendixes here

%% bibliography

How can I make \chapter*, \section*, and \subsection* to appear in the ToC and to modify the headers?

Best regards,
Manuel.

UPDATE: I think I may be using some packages that interfere with the way headers and footers are generated. The answer of smilingthax gets the first part of the question responded: I have now my \chapter*s on the TOC.

This is my full preamble:

\usepackage[sort&compress,round,semicolon]{natbib}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage{setspace}
%% inputenc so we can write in spanish
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}

\usepackage{fixltx2e} % LaTeX patches, \textsubscript
\usepackage{cmap} % fix search and cut-and-paste in PDF
\usepackage{ifthen}
%% \usepackage{float} % float configuration
%% \floatplacement{figure}{TH} % place figures here definitely

%% fontenc so we can use TrueType fonts
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\usepackage{garamond}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{titlesec}

\usepackage[table]{xcolor}
%% Custom colors
\definecolor{blue}{rgb}{0.2,0.2,0.95}
\definecolor{green}{rgb}{0.2,0.95,0.2}
\definecolor{red}{rgb}{0.95,0.2,0.2}
\definecolor{cyan}{rgb}{0,0,0.95}
\definecolor{ligthred}{rgb}{1, 0, 0}
\definecolor{black}{rgb}{0, 0, 0}

\definecolor{shade}{HTML}{D4D7FE} %light blue shade

% Margins
\usepackage[left=0.9in,top=1in,right=0.7in,bottom=1in]{geometry}


\usepackage[pdftex, colorlinks=true, citecolor=ligthred,
  urlcolor=blue]{hyperref}

\widowpenalty9000
\clubpenalty7000

\usepackage{titlesec}
\newcommand{\bigrule}{\titlerule[0.5mm]}

\renewcommand{\rmdefault}{bch} 

\titleformat{\chapter}[display]
{\bfseries\Huge}
{\garamond
% DESCOMENTAR PARA SUBIR LOS CAPITULOS
\vspace{-1.125in} \titlerule \filleft
\Large\chaptertitlename\ \Large\thechapter}{0mm}
{\filleft}[\vspace{0.5mm} \bigrule]

\let\cite=\citep

\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\fancyhf{}  %% Clears all headers

% admonition (specially marked topic)
\providecommand{\DUadmonition}[2][class-arg]{%
  % try \DUadmonition#1{#2}:
  \ifcsname DUadmonition#1\endcsname%
    \csname DUadmonition#1\endcsname{#2}%
  \else
    \begin{center}
      \fbox{\parbox{0.9\textwidth}{#2}}
    \end{center}
  \fi
}

% title for topics, admonitions and sidebar
\providecommand*{\DUtitle}[2][class-arg]{%
  % call \DUtitle#1{#2} if it exists:
  \ifcsname DUtitle#1\endcsname%
    \csname DUtitle#1\endcsname{#2}%
  \else
    \smallskip\noindent\textbf{#2}\smallskip%
  \fi
}

% error admonition title
\providecommand*{\DUtitleerror}[1]{\DUtitle{\color{red}#1}}

% fieldlist environment
\ifthenelse{\isundefined{\DUfieldlist}}{
  \newenvironment{DUfieldlist}%
    {\quote\description}
    {\enddescription\endquote}
}{}

% legend
\ifthenelse{\isundefined{\DUlegend}}{
  \newenvironment{DUlegend}{\small}{}
}{}

%%% Fallback definitions for Docutils-specific commands
% numeric or symbol footnotes with hyperlinks
\providecommand*{\DUfootnotemark}[3]{%
  \hyperlink{#2}{\textsuperscript{#3}}\raisebox{1em}{\label{#1}}%
}

\providecommand{\DUfootnotetext}[4]{%
  \begingroup%
  \renewcommand{\thefootnote}{%
    \protect\hyperlink{#2}{#3}}%
  \protect\raisebox{1em}{\protect\label{#1}}%
  \footnotetext{#4}%
  \endgroup%
}

\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage{multirow}
\usepackage{longtable}
\newlength{\DUtablewidth} % internal use in tables


\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{bbding}

\usetikzlibrary{arrows,fit}
\usepackage{amsmath,bm,times}
\newcommand{\mx}[1]{\mathbf{\bm{#1}}} % Matrix command
\newcommand{\vc}[1]{\mathbf{\bm{#1}}} % Vector command

Best Answer

I don't think an specialized command exists for that. But you can use

  \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{#1}

to add it to the TOC. BTW, I didn't have problems with \chapter* and fancy, so I used:

\newcommand\chap[1]{%
  \chapter*{#1}%
  \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{#1}}

problem #1.

Even if you're using the headings pagestyle, or your custom pagestyle, the special pages (chapter beginnings and so on) are formatted with the plain pagestyle.

To avoid this, load the fancyhdr package (as mentioned in the previous answer) with

\usepackage{fancyhdr}

in your preamble. Then, (always in the preamble) define your custom pagestyle. For normal pages (assuming you're not using twoside as an option of \documentclass[]{}):

\fancypagestyle{phdthesis}{%
\fancyhf %clear all headers and footers fields
\fancyhead[R]{\thepage} %prints the page number on the right side of the header
}

For special pages:

\fancypagestyle{plain}{%redefining plain pagestyle
\fancyhf %clear all headers and footers fields
\fancyhead[R]{\thepage} %prints the page number on the right side of the header
}

After doing this, you can set you page style declaring \pagestyle{phdthesis} right before \begin{document}. For further details, refer to the fancyhdr package documentation.

Now trying to answer

problem #2

As a first attempt, you can use the titlesec package, using the option compact. In the preamble, type:

\usepackage[compact]{titlesec}

If you're not completely satisfied with this solution, you can specify the spacing above and below the titles with \titlespacing

\usepackage{titlesec}
\titleformat{ command }[ shape ]{ format }{ label }{ sep }{ before }[ after ]
\titlespacing{ command }{ left }{ beforesep }{ aftersep }[ right ]

With \titleformat you can define your own style for chapter titles, and then you can define the spacing with \titlespacing. I don't know which style of titles you have to use, so it's better for you to have a look to the package documentation (you can recall package documentation typing texdoc NameOfThePackage in a terminal).

Please note that you need to define the chapter title format in order to specify its vertical spacing (page 5 of the documentation). As an example:

\usepackage{titlesec}
\titleformat{\chapter}[hang]{\huge}{\thechapter}{1em}{}
\titlespacing{\chapter}{0pt}{0pt}{1cm}

With these commands you have the chapter title with the number and the chapter name on the same line, a 0 pt space before the title, and a 1 cm space between the title and the follwing text.

Golang MVC structure

You can have one file called for example MainController where you can make functions for accessing database, sessions, config files and so on. All you have to do really from there is to say something like this for example (inherit stuff from some other controller):

//MyController.go
type App struct {
    MainController
}

func (c Application) MyControllerFunc() returnTypeHere(http.Response for example) {

    //c.getDatabaseName is function from MainController that reads information from some plain text file or json file or similar
    someInfoFromConfigFile = c.getDatabaseName()
    var str []string
    str = append(str,  someInfoFromConfigFile)

    //RenderJson is function that render http response as json (Content type plain/json)
    return c.RenderJson(str)
}

But if you need mvc I suggest that you use some framework (Revel for example). I am using it all the time. It gives you that basic mvc functionality if you like and all other stuff is really up to you. You keep you business logic in some helpers, models in models file etc.

You can check Revel main controller structure here: https://github.com/revel/revel/blob/master/controller.go

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