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I need to add a fancy looking chapter start page to a book. We're using the memoir class and make use of tikz for fancy section and chapter headings. Now, I need to add a list of the sections that occur in the chapter, on the chapter's start page. I've tried using something like:

\documentclass[oneside]{memoir} \usepackage{tikz} \usepackage{titletoc} \usepackage{lipsum} \begin{document} \tableofcontents \chapter{A chapter} \startcontents[chapters] \begin{tikzpicture}[overlay] \node[fill=blue] {\printcontents[chapters]{}{1}{}}; \end{tikzpicture} \section{Section} \lipsum[1] \section{Section 2} \lipsum \chapter{Second chapter} \startcontents[chapters] \printcontents[chapters]{}{1}{} \section{Section} \lipsum[2] \section{Another section} \lipsum \end{document}

but this doesn't seem to work well. My actual code redefines the \chapter command and inserts the tikzpicture as part of the chapter page. I'm aiming for something like this: The goal

I'd appreciate a pointer as to how I can get a mini toc inside a TikZ node OR how to get access to a list of the sections that allows me to loop through them OR any other way to accomplish my goal.

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You can use a minipage for this.

Example

Here an example:

\documentclass[oneside]{memoir} \usepackage{tikz} \usetikzlibrary{shadows.blur} \usepackage{titletoc} \usepackage{lipsum} \usepackage{calc} \definecolor{yourcolor}{HTML}{008bb2} %define new chapter style (just for a nicer look) \makechapterstyle{mystyle}{% \chapterstyle{default} \renewcommand*{\chapnumfont}{\normalfont\Huge\sffamily\bfseries} \renewcommand*{\chaptitlefont}{\normalfont\huge\sffamily\itshape\color{yourcolor}} \settowidth{\chapindent}{\chapnumfont 111} \renewcommand*{\chapterheadstart}{} \renewcommand*{\chapnamefont}{\hfill\color{yourcolor}\normalfont\Huge\sffamily\bfseries} \renewcommand*{\printchapternum}{% \begin{tikzpicture}[baseline={([yshift=-.6ex]current bounding box.center)}] \node[fill=yourcolor,circle,text=white] {\thechapter}; \end{tikzpicture}\\[1ex] \hrule height 1.5pt} \renewcommand*{\printchaptertitle}[1]{% {\chaptitlefont ##1}} } %use new chapter style \chapterstyle{mystyle} %command to print the acutal minitoc \newcommand{\printmyminitoc}{\noindent\hspace{-2cm}\begin{tikzpicture} \node[rounded corners,align=left,fill=yourcolor, blur shadow={shadow blur steps=5}, inner sep=5mm]{% \color{white}% \begin{minipage}{8cm}%minipage trick \printcontents[chapters]{}{1}{} \end{minipage}}; \end{tikzpicture}} \begin{document} \tableofcontents \chapter{A chapter} \startcontents[chapters] %print minitoc \printmyminitoc \section{Section} \lipsum[1] \section{Section 2} \section{test} \section{abc} \lipsum \chapter{Second chapter} \end{document}

Here a quick demo with the book class. You might want to adjust the page borders. To color the page numbers in the mini toc, I used the method described at https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/186757/10117.

\documentclass[twoside]{book} \usepackage{tikz} \usetikzlibrary{shadows.blur} \usepackage{titletoc} \usepackage{lipsum} \usepackage{calc} \usepackage[]{titlesec} \definecolor{yourcolor}{HTML}{008bb2} \colorlet{chpnumbercolor}{black} \makeatletter \let\oldl@chapter\l@chapter \def\l@chapter#1#2{\oldl@chapter{#1}{\textcolor{chpnumbercolor}{#2}}} \let\old@dottedcontentsline\@dottedtocline \def\@dottedtocline#1#2#3#4#5{% \old@dottedcontentsline{#1}{#2}{#3}{#4}{{\textcolor{chpnumbercolor}{#5}}}} \makeatother \titleformat{\chapter}[display] {\normalfont\color{yourcolor}} {\filleft\Huge\sffamily\bfseries\chaptertitlename\hspace*{2mm}% \begin{tikzpicture}[baseline={([yshift=-.6ex]current bounding box.center)}] \node[fill=yourcolor,circle,text=white] {\thechapter}; \end{tikzpicture}} {1ex} {\titlerule[1.5pt]\vspace*{5ex}\huge\sffamily\itshape} [] \titleformat{name=\chapter,numberless}[display] {\normalfont\color{yourcolor}} {} {1ex} {\vspace*{5ex}\huge\sffamily\itshape} [] %command to print the acutal minitoc \newcommand{\printmyminitoc}{% \noindent\hspace{-2cm}% \colorlet{chpnumbercolor}{white}% \begin{tikzpicture} \node[rounded corners,align=left,fill=yourcolor, blur shadow={shadow blur steps=5}, inner sep=5mm]{% \color{white}% \begin{minipage}{8cm}%minipage trick \printcontents[chapters]{}{1}{} \end{minipage}}; \end{tikzpicture}} \begin{document} \tableofcontents \chapter{A chapter} \startcontents[chapters] %print minitoc \printmyminitoc \section{Section} \lipsum[1] \section{Section 2} \section{test} \section{abc} \lipsum \chapter{Second chapter} \end{document}
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  • How to do this, for \documentclass[twoside]{book}. when i change memoir to book, i get error! Commented Nov 19, 2012 at 16:59
  • You get this error because the example uses commands from memoir class. You need to modify the the code to work with book. Commented Apr 11, 2013 at 18:57
  • So, will not you teach us this codes? Commented Sep 18, 2014 at 9:38
  • @GurebuBokofu I just added a quick example. Hope it helps ;) Commented Sep 18, 2014 at 21:45
  • @someonr There are two bugs in your code \documentclass\[twoside\]{book} and \usepackage\[\]{titlesec} Commented Sep 19, 2014 at 0:29

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