Question

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?

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

Answer 1

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}}