I'm new here myself but, iiuc, the difference between a chapter and a chapter* is that the former appears in the toc whilst the later doesn't.
So, if you want a chapter* to appear in the toc, can't you just change it to a chapter? i ------ Original Message ------ Received: 06:45 PM COT, 05/12/2009 From: Luca De Marini <luca.darkmas...@gmail.com> To: LyX Users List <lyx-users@lists.lyx.org> Subject: Adding a non-numbered chapter to Table of Contents > Hallo everyone, sorry for my mails but we are in a hurry and the lyx wiki is > not helping me, google neither :( > When I create a TOC in Lyx, it lists all the chapters, sections, etc. in my > book. I can configure it from the document properties, no problem.. > then, another feature in lyx is adding Chapters, Sections, etc. with a "*" > simbol next to them. Those entries are not numbered or listed in the TOC. > Now, I need to put in the TOC one of these special entries, a special > *Chapter. I was sure there had to be an option to add a custom entry to > TOC... or a way to solve this in general. Any help please? > > Another problem is a little bit complicated to explain: I inserted the TOC > and after that, the first chapter is the famous *Chapter I was talking about > above. My second problem is that in the page where this *Chapter is, on the > top of the page I still see the name "Table of Contents".. this probably > happens, because Lyx is confused, since there's no ordinary Chapter after > the TOC.. in fact, on the next page there's Chapter 1, and on the top left > of the page I can see the small name: "Chapther 1" (the name of the chapter > is of course on the top right corner as usual). So, the problem is that I > have still "Table of Contents" on the top left corner of the page with the > *Chapter. > > Cheers, > > Luca >