appendicestable of contents
I was wondering if there is any way to exclude the individual Chapters within the Appendix so that the TOC only shows one line labeled as "appendices"?
I am using the begin{appendices} as I want it to be sectioned off from my main document. I also tried using \chapter* but I want to keep the Appendix A label above the title of the appendix.
\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
\begin{appendices}
\chapter{sometext}
\chapter{somemoretext}
\end{appendices}
\end{document}
You had the right idea, but you need to add your changes to the TOC itself rather than in the main document (and because of this you need to \protect some of the commands.) Note that this solution won't look very nice if your appendices have sections.
\documentclass{report}
\usepackage{tocloft}
\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
\chapter{A chapter}
\section{A section}
\newpage\phantomsection
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Appendices}
\appendix
\addtocontents{toc}{
\setlength{\cftbeforechapskip}{\cftbeforesecskip}
\setlength{\cftchapindent}{\cftsecindent}
\protect\renewcommand{\cftchapfont}{\cftsecfont}
\protect\renewcommand{\protect\cftchapdotsep}{\cftsecdotsep}
}
\chapter{An Appendix}
\end{document}
The problem is the combination of the appendix package (which redefines the \addcontentsline) and titlesec, so you need to modify the code a bit to make it aware of \titlesec. Here's a solution to your problem:
The redefinition is here. Add this to your preamble after your titlesec definitions.
\makeatletter
\renewcommand{\@redotocentry@pp}[1]{%
\let\oldacl@pp=\addcontentsline
\def\addcontentsline##1##2##3{%
\def\@pptempa{##1}\def\@pptempb{toc}%
\ifx\@pptempa\@pptempb
\def\@pptempa{##2}\def\@pptempb{#1}%
\ifx\@pptempa\@pptempb
\oldacl@pp{##1}{##2}{\appendixname\space ##3}%
\else
\oldacl@pp{##1}{##2}{\chaptertitlename\space ##3}% added \chaptertitlename
\fi
\else
\oldacl@pp{##1}{##2}{##3}%
\fi}
}
\makeatother
Here's the complete document:
\documentclass[titlepage, oneside, 12pt]{report}
\usepackage[titletoc]{appendix}
\usepackage[nottoc, notlof, notlot]{tocbibind}
\renewcommand*\listfigurename{}
\renewcommand*\listtablename{}
\usepackage{titlesec}
\titleclass{\part}{top}
\titleformat{\part}[display]
{\normalfont\huge\bfseries}{\centering\partname\ \thepart}{20pt}{\Huge\centering}
\titlespacing*{\part}{0pt}{50pt}{40pt}
\titleclass{\chapter}{straight}
\titleformat{\chapter}[display]
{\normalfont\huge\bfseries}{\chaptertitlename\ \thechapter}{20pt}{\Huge}
\titlespacing*{\chapter} {0pt}{50pt}{40pt}
\makeatletter
\renewcommand{\@redotocentry@pp}[1]{%
\let\oldacl@pp=\addcontentsline
\def\addcontentsline##1##2##3{%
\def\@pptempa{##1}\def\@pptempb{toc}%
\ifx\@pptempa\@pptempb
\def\@pptempa{##2}\def\@pptempb{#1}%
\ifx\@pptempa\@pptempb
\oldacl@pp{##1}{##2}{\appendixname\space ##3}%
\else
\oldacl@pp{##1}{##2}{\chaptertitlename\space ##3}% added \chaptertitlename
\fi
\else
\oldacl@pp{##1}{##2}{##3}%
\fi}
}
\makeatother
\begin{document}
\begingroup
\setcounter{tocdepth}{2}
\tableofcontents{}
\endgroup
\part{part 1}
\chapter{chapter one}
\part{part 2}
\chapter{chapter two}
\clearpage
\begin{appendices}
\chapter{List of figures}
\listoffigures
\clearpage
\chapter{List of tables}
\listoftables
\end{appendices}
\end{document}
Best Answer
You can use the following setup:
The idea would be to add Appendices to the ToC manually at the start of the
appendicesenvironment (either in the text, or within the preamble) and also remove the capability of adding additional content by making\addcontentslinea no-op. It will gobble its three arguments and do nothing.