tableofcontents - hide an entry from Toc in latex

Question

I would like to know how I can hide a section from the table of contents but without loosing the section number in the body of the document. For example, in this tex file I loose the number for hide, and all the sequences are damaged:

documentclass{article}

egin{document}
ableofcontents
section{uno}
section{dos}
section*{hide}
section{tres}
end{document}

Answer 1

I think you are looking for

section*{hide}
addtocounter{section}{1}

or make it into a command:

ewcommand{oclesssection}[1]{section*{#1}addtocounter{section}{1}}

EDIT:

Okay, I think I understand what is wanted now (and it makes more sense then the answer I gave). Here is a command that you can use to suppress adding a section, subsection, etc. to the TOC. The idea is to temporarily disable addcontentsline.

ewcommand{
ocontentsline}[3]{}

ewcommand{ocless}[2]{groupletaddcontentsline=
ocontentsline#1{#2}egroup}
...
oclesssection{hide}
oclesssubsection{subhide}