Kdtyjb

I am facing three types of problems with the table of contents.

First, I want to remove underlining (from the section titles) and bold (from the chapter titles) from the table of contents. The page now looks like this:

For context, the reason the section titles have underlined text is that I have used underline for all section titles, as given in the below picture, which is the university formatting rule for theses:

I do not know, though, why the chapter titles are turning bold.

The second problem is that, as you can see, the table of contents does not include INTRODUCTION as the first chapter. I did use chapter{} code for INTRODUCTION as well though.

The Latex code for my document is large, so I am just including the code until the first chapter (INTRODUCTION) below. I hope it helps.

documentclass[12pt]{report}

usepackage[left=1.5in, right=1in, top=1in, bottom=1.5in]{geometry}

usepackage{setspace}

usepackage{amsbsy}

usepackage{fancyhdr}

usepackage{lipsum}

usepackage{graphicx}

usepackage{enumitem}

usepackage{textcomp}

usepackage{lscape}

usepackage{amsmath}

usepackage{calc}

usepackage[rm,tiny]{titlesec} %added this to change the chapter title's font as default regular text font.



newlength{depthofsumsign}

setlength{depthofsumsign}{depthof{$sum$}}

newlength{totalheightofsumsign}

newlength{heightanddepthofargument}



usepackage{pdflscape,booktabs}

usepackage[flushleft]{threeparttable}

renewcommandTPTtagStyle{textit} 

usepackage[font=it,skip=0.5baselineskip]{caption} % italic text for captions



%to put page numbers as the header

fancyhf{}

fancyhead[C]{thepage}

pagestyle{fancy}



titleformat{chapter}{normalfontcentering}{}{0pt}{}

titlelabel{}

titlespacing*{chapter}{0pt}{-25pt}{4pt}



titleformat{section}{normalfontcentering}{}{0pt}{}



%koleygr: Redefining chapter to include thispagestyle{fancy}

letoldchapterchapter

makeatletter

defchapter{%

@ifstar{@Starred}{@nonStarred}%

}

def@Starred{%

@ifnextchar[%

{GenericWarning{}{Warning: A starred section can not have parameters. I am going to ignore them!}@StarredWith}%

{@StarredWithout}%

}      

def@StarredWith[#1]#2{%

oldchapter*{#2}%

thispagestyle{fancy}

}

def@StarredWithout#1{

oldchapter*{#1}%

thispagestyle{fancy}

}

def@nonStarred{%

@ifnextchar[%

{@nonStarredWith}%

{@nonStarredWithout}%

}

def@nonStarredWith[#1]#2{%

oldchapter[#1]{#2}%

thispagestyle{fancy}

}

def@nonStarredWithout#1{%

oldchapter{#1}%

thispagestyle{fancy}

}

makeatother



interfootnotelinepenalty=10000



begin{document}



setlength{headheight}{50pt} %to note where the header lies.

setlength{headsep}{15pt} %to set the distance between header and the first line after it.



renewcommand{headrulewidth}{0pt}

doublespacing

thispagestyle{empty}

begin{center}

vspace*{0.2in}

THESIS TITLE\

vspace*{0.4in}

by\

Samyam Shrestha\



vspace*{1.2in}

singlespacing

A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment\

of the requirements for the degree\

doublespacing

of\

Master of Science\

in\

Applied Economics\



vspace*{1in}

UNIVERSITY\

University location\

vspace*{0.2in}

Date

end{center}

pagebreak



pagenumbering{gobble}

begin{center}

vspace*{1in}

textcopyright COPYRIGHT\

by\

Samyam Shrestha\

2019\

All Rights Reserved

end{center}

pagebreak



begin{center}

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

end{center}



Acknowledgment text



pagebreak

tableofcontents



pagebreak



begin{center}

ABSTRACT

end{center}

singlespacing

noindent

Abstract text\





pagebreak



pagenumbering{arabic}

setcounter{page}{1}

doublespacing



chapter{INTRODUCTION}



Introduction starts

Third, and this is just a trivial problem, but is there any way I can remove the numbering in the section titles (and just keep the numbering in the chapter titles)?

Edit: For the third problem, I did try using section*{underline{}} command, but it hid those section titles from the table of contents altogether (and only showed the chapter title).

Thanks a lot!