Wrong numbering of TOC with \includeonly

[dead-end]

I am trying to split my document in smaller parts, but doing this results in a wrong numbering of the table of contents with \includeonly switched on.

I have three little documents that demonstrate the issue. The main document:

\documentclass{beamer}

\usetheme{Warsaw}

\includeonly{beamer_include_2}
\begin{document}

\include{beamer_include_1}
\include{beamer_include_2}

\end{document}

The first include:

\section{My Section (1)}

\begin{frame}
	\tableofcontents
\end{frame}

\section{My Section (2)}

\begin{frame}
	\tableofcontents
\end{frame}

and the second include:

\section{My Section (3)}

\begin{frame}
	\tableofcontents
\end{frame}

\section{My Section (4)}

\begin{frame}
	\tableofcontents
\end{frame}

This is the result with \includeonly switched on:

This is the result with \includeonly switched off (as expected):

[louisstuart96]

I cannot reproduce the same problem with your MWE: all is well in my compilation result. Additional information might be helpful for solving problems, including:

• TeX distribution version (MiKTeX, TeX Live, MacTeX, etc) and beamer version;
• Intermediate files, mainly .aux and .toc.

[samcarter]

I can reproduce this if I first compile the whole document and only then add \includeonly{}.

To get rid if the remains of the previous toc, delete all the auxiliary files when you switch from the full document to the one with \includeonly{}.

[samcarter]

FYI: if you let beamer do the work and use \includeonlylecture{} the toc will update automatically if you switch from one mode to the other

\documentclass{beamer}

\usetheme{Warsaw}


\begin{filecontents*}[overwrite]{beamer_include_1}
\lecture{lecture 1}{lec1}

\section{My Section (1)}

\begin{frame}
	\tableofcontents
\end{frame}

\section{My Section (2)}

\begin{frame}
	\tableofcontents
\end{frame}
\end{filecontents*}

\begin{filecontents*}[overwrite]{beamer_include_2}
\lecture{lecture 2}{lec2}

\section{My Section (3)}

\begin{frame}
	\tableofcontents
\end{frame}

\section{My Section (4)}

\begin{frame}
	\tableofcontents
\end{frame}
\end{filecontents*}


\includeonlylecture{lec2}



\begin{document}

\include{beamer_include_1}
\include{beamer_include_2}

\end{document}

[dead-end]

Thank you for the quick answer!

I am using:

Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS texstudio 2.12.6

preview-latex-style/bionic,bionic,now 11.91-1ubuntu1 all
texlive-latex-base/bionic,bionic,now 2017.20180305-1 all
texlive-latex-base-doc/bionic,bionic,now 2017.20180305-1 all
texlive-latex-extra/bionic,bionic,now 2017.20180305-2 all
texlive-latex-extra-doc/bionic,bionic,now 2017.20180305-2 all
texlive-latex-recommended/bionic,bionic,now 2017.20180305-1 all
texlive-latex-recommended-doc/bionic,bionic,now 2017.20180305-1 all

Sorry I do not know where to find the beamer version.

When I follow your suggestion, and delete the aux files, the toc contains only the sections of the included documents. In this case 2 and not 4.

I am using the combination of \tableofcontents and \includeonly in article documents. When I include only a part of the document, the toc contains the sections of the whole document. An example:

\documentclass{article}

\includeonly{doc_include_2}

\begin{document}

\tableofcontents
	
\include{doc_include_1}
\include{doc_include_2}

\end{document}

with

\section{My section 1}
 
This is a section.
 
\section{My section 2}

This is a section.

and

\section{My section 3}
 
This is a section.
 
\section{My section 4}

This is a section.

Compile the whole document and then include only the second file and compile it again. Then the toc is complete:

But the document contains only the included sections:

I do not know if this is intended but it is very useful. I can handout only chapters of my document, but the chapters have the correct numbering and have the complete toc.