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qaz
qaz

Reputation: 167

How can I get page numbers to link to the table of contents in latex?

I've seen a pdf LaTeX document where the page numbers at the bottom of the page are hyperref links, and clicking them causes you to jump to the contents table. I don't have the tex file and couldn't work out how it's done from the hyperref package. Can anyone help?

Upvotes: 5

Views: 6876

Answers (4)

TeamDman
TeamDman

Reputation: 1005

This worked for me.

% Make the page number link back to the table of contents
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\fancypagestyle{plain}{
    \fancyhf{}
    \fancyfoot[C]{\hyperlink{toc}{\thepage}}
}
...

\hypertarget{toc}{} % anchor for page number to link to
\tableofcontents

See also: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/227356/how-can-i-get-page-numbers-to-link-to-the-table-of-contents-in-latex

Upvotes: 0

zyy
zyy

Reputation: 1574

Here is how I did it

% !TEX encoding = UTF-8 Unicode
% !TEX TS-program = xelatex
\documentclass[UTF8, english]{article}
\usepackage{lipsum} %% produce dummy texts

\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage[pagestyles]{titlesec}

\newpagestyle{article}{
\setfoot
%% even pages
[]
[\footnotesize \hyperlink{toc}{\thepage}]
[]
%% odd pages
{}
{\footnotesize \hyperlink{toc}{\thepage}}
{}
}

\begin{document}

\title{example}
\date{}
\author{author}

\maketitle

\pagenumbering{roman}
\setcounter{tocdepth}{2}
\addtocontents{toc}{\protect\hypertarget{toc}{}}
\tableofcontents
\newpage
\pagenumbering{arabic}

\pagestyle{article}

\section{A}
\lipsum[1]
\subsection{a}
\lipsum[2]
\subsection{b}
\lipsum[3]
\subsection{c}
\lipsum[4]
\section{B}
\lipsum[5]
\subsection{d}
\lipsum[6]
\subsection{e}
\lipsum[7]
\section{C}
\lipsum[8]
\subsection{f}
\lipsum[9]
\subsection{g}
\lipsum[10]
\subsection{h}
\lipsum[11]

\end{document}

you can of course customize the link text back to table of contents however you like in the preamble, please read documentation of titlesec for more details.

Upvotes: 0

Stefan
Stefan

Reputation: 3620

You could set an anchor at the toc and redefine \thepage to link to it. Here's an example:

\documentclass{report}
\usepackage[colorlinks]{hyperref}
\renewcommand*{\contentsname}{\hyperlink{contents}{Contents}}
\renewcommand*{\thepage}{\hyperref[contents]{\arabic{page}}}
\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
\chapter{One}
Text
\end{document}

If you use babel and wish to redefine \contentsname, use the \addto command of babel or redefine \contentsname after \begin{document}.

Upvotes: 2

Sentry
Sentry

Reputation: 4113

Have you tried defining the page numbering using this?

\pagestyle{myheadings}
\markright{ ... }

where \markright specifies the page number with a link to the content page.

Upvotes: 0

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