Thanks Steve for your suggestion. But I wanted a second - but shorter - table of contents, i.e. a short summary of my table of contents whichs spans several pages.
The shorttoc packages promises to provide exactly such thing. And it really does. The "only" problem I have with shorttoc: There is a option in this package to tight this second table of contents, but this option does not work for me. The resulting table summary looks ugly as for each section (and I wanted only chapter and section to be included in this second table of contents) there is an empty line between. And I'm not sure if I could use your code snippets as they refer to the standard table of contents. Peter
