LilyPond Notation Reference: 3.2.4 Table of contents

### 3.2.4 Table of contents

A table of contents is included using the `\markuplines \table-of-contents` command. The elements which should appear in the table of contents are entered with the `\tocItem` command, which may be used either at top-level, or inside a music expression.

    \markuplines \table-of-contents
    \pageBreak

    \tocItem \markup "First score"
    \score {
      {
        c'4  % ...
        \tocItem \markup "Some particular point in the first score"
        d'4  % ...
      }
    }

    \tocItem \markup "Second score"
    \score {
      {
        e'4 % ...
      }
    }

The markups which are used to format the table of contents are defined in the `\paper` block. The default ones are `tocTitleMarkup`, for formatting the title of the table, and `tocItemMarkup`, for formatting the toc elements, composed of the element title and page number. These variables may be changed by the user:

    \paper {
      %% Translate the toc title into French:
      tocTitleMarkup = \markup \huge \column {
        \fill-line { \null "Table des matières" \null }
        \hspace #1
      }
      %% use larger font size
      tocItemMarkup = \markup \large \fill-line {
        \fromproperty #'toc:text \fromproperty #'toc:page
      }
    }

Note how the toc element text and page number are referred to in the `tocItemMarkup` definition.

New commands and markups may also be defined to build more elaborated table of contents:

- first, define a new markup variable in the `\paper` block
- then, define a music function which aims at adding a toc element using this markup paper variable.

In the following example, a new style is defined for entering act names in the table of contents of an opera:

    \paper {
      tocActMarkup = \markup \large \column {
        \hspace #1
        \fill-line { \null \italic \fromproperty #'toc:text \null }
        \hspace #1
      }
    }

    tocAct =
    #(define-music-function (parser location text) (markup?)
       (add-toc-item! 'tocActMarkup text))

Dots can be added to fill the line between an item and its page number:

>     \header { tagline = ##f }
>     \paper {
>       tocItemMarkup = \tocItemWithDotsMarkup
>     }

>     \book {
>       \markuplines \table-of-contents
>       \tocItem \markup { Allegro }
>       \tocItem \markup { Largo }
>       \markup \null
>     }

#### See also

Init files: ‘`../ly/toc-init.ly`’.

#### Predefined commands

`\table-of-contents`, `\tocItem`.

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