Question

I have a thesis in which I want to group some chapters together, using the \part command.

What I would like is to have the following:

• Chapter 1
• Part I
  • Chapter 2
  • Chapter 3
• Part II
  • Chapter 4
  • Chapter 5
• Chapter 6

So the last chapter should again be on the same level as the parts. In the table of contents of the text you can’t really detect it, because Parts are on the same level anyway.
The problem is that in the PDF, the chapter 6 is added under Part II.
Does anyone know of a way to change that?

Answer 1

The bookmark package can do this quite nicely, among other things. It also only uses a single pass to embed PDF bookmarks into the document.

\part{...}
\chapter{...}
\bookmarksetup{startatroot}
\chapter{...}