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Lists of contents and index are generally prepared in a big document, such as a book or a report. The lists of contents are prepared at the beginning of a book showing page-wise headings of various topics and captions of tables and figures, while the index prepared at the end shows the page numbers of topic-related various terms covered in the book.
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If the heading/title of a numbered unit (like \chapter{ }, \section{ }, or \caption{ }) is too long to include in lists of contents, a shorter heading/title can be generated through an optional argument of the command.
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To index a character having a special meaning to \makeindex, such as !, ", @, or |, the character is to be preceded by ” in the argument of \index{ }.
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Datta, D. (2017). Lists of Contents and Index. In: LaTeX in 24 Hours. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47831-9_16
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