List of figures as a chapter

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I am trying to generate a list of figures and tables. As they form part of the final part of my thesis, I want them as a chapter. Bibliography is A, Appendix is B and so on… I manage to delete the title of the "List of figures", but when I want to include it in the chapter, it does not work. The chapter "list of figures" is empty and one page later, the list of figures appears without title.

\chapter[List of figures]
\renewcommand\listfigurename{}
\listoffigures
%\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{\protect\textbf{List of figures}}

I have also tried to put the title of lof as C. List of figures and remove it as a chapter. That's a solution, but not very elegant, as up to that part, all the chapters below will have to be entered manually. Does anybody have a better alternative?
Thanks in advance!

Best Answer

I finally did it. The etoolbox did not work for me. Thanks, though.

What it did was to change the documentclass to scrreprt and include listof=numbered while defining the documentclass. I also joined lof with lot.

\listoffigures
\begingroup
\let\clearpage\relax
\listoftables
\endgroup

Solutions were here: List of figures as chapter (even though I had to test some alternatives) and for binding lof with tol: How to show \listoffigures and \listoftables on one page and in the ToC?

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[Tex/LaTex] List of Figures: How to get a vertical space between figures from the final chapter and the first appendix

The default behaviour in report with or without tocloft is to add a vertical space of 10pt in the ToC, LoF and LoT whenever you use \chapter. If you use \chapter* for a similar chapter look-and-feel but no numbering, no entry is written to the ToC and this space is dropped.

There are many ways to insert this "missing" gap, the easiest of which would just be to add

\addtocontents{lof}{\protect\addvspace{10pt}}%

at the start of your appendix. This adds the traditional 10pt space, but won't add more than that (due to \addvspace; rather than \vspace alone). For example, if the previous chapter didn't include any figures, you don't want double the gap between the LoF entries. This solution is independent of the use of tocloft.

Here is a minimal example:

Add vertical space between figures in LoF after appendix

\documentclass{report}
%\usepackage{tocloft}% http://ctan.org/pkg/tocloft
\begin{document}
\listoffigures
\chapter{A chapter}
\begin{figure}\caption{A figure}\end{figure}
\begin{figure}\caption{A figure}\end{figure}
\chapter{A chapter}
\begin{figure}\caption{A figure}\end{figure}
\begin{figure}\caption{A figure}\end{figure}
\appendix
\chapter*{A chapter}
\addtocontents{lof}{\protect\addvspace{10pt}}%
\begin{figure}\caption{A figure}\end{figure}
\begin{figure}\caption{A figure}\end{figure}
\end{document}

[Tex/LaTex] Add both part and chapter titles to list of figures with formatting and line wrapping

The \contentsline stuff is wrongly used in the O.P.'s document, i.e. wrongly placed {} delimiters.

For example

 \addtocontents{lof}{\protect\contentsline{part}%
                    {\protect\numberline{\thisparttitle}}{}{3.2em} }

tries to write a \numberline with the part title as the number, leaving out the title and setting the page number to be 3.2em which is in fact a length.

One correct way is

\addtocontents{lof}{%
\protect\contentsline{part}{
  \protect\numberline{\thispartnumber}\thisparttitle}{% page number group -- empty here 
}% end of \contentsline
}% end of \addtocontents

The same holds true for the chapter titles and the LoT.

\documentclass{report}
\usepackage{etoolbox}  % or xpatch

\makeatletter

    % initial definitions of the part info (name and number)
\def\thisparttitle{}\def\thispartnumber{}
\def\thischaptertitle{}\def\thischapternumber{}

\newtoggle{noFigs}
\newtoggle{noTabs}

\apptocmd{\@chapter}{\gdef\thischaptertitle{#1}\gdef\thischapternumber{\thechapter}\global\toggletrue{noFigs}}{}{}
\apptocmd{\@part}{\gdef\thisparttitle{#1}\gdef\thispartnumber{\thepart}\global\toggletrue{noFigs}\global\toggletrue{noTabs}}{}{}

% the figure environment does the job: the first time it is used after a \chapter command, it writes the information of the chapter to the LoF
\AtBeginDocument{%
    \AtBeginEnvironment{figure}{%
        \iftoggle{noFigs}{%
          \addtocontents{lof}{\protect\contentsline{part}{\protect\numberline{\thispartnumber}\thisparttitle}{}}%
          \addtocontents{lof}{\protect\contentsline{chapter}{\protect\numberline{\thischapternumber}\thischaptertitle}{}}%
          \global\togglefalse{noFigs}%
        }{}
    }%
    \AtBeginEnvironment{table}{%
        \iftoggle{noTabs}{%
          \addtocontents{lot}{\protect\contentsline{part}{\protect\numberline{\thispartnumber}\thisparttitle}{}}%
          \addtocontents{lot}{\protect\contentsline{chapter}{\protect\numberline{\thischapternumber}\thischaptertitle}{}}%
          \global\togglefalse{noTabs}%
        }{}
      }%
}


\makeatother

\begin{document}

\tableofcontents
\listoffigures


\part{The first}

\chapter{Introduction with no Figures}

\chapter{Test Chapter with Figures}
\begin{figure}
    \caption{caption text}
\end{figure}
\begin{figure}
    \caption{caption text}
\end{figure}

\chapter{Test Chapter with no Figures}

\part{The second}

\chapter{Another Test Chapter with Figures}
\begin{figure}
    \caption{caption text}
\end{figure}
\begin{figure}
    \caption{caption text}
\end{figure}
\begin{figure}
    \caption{caption text}
\end{figure}
\begin{figure}
    \caption{caption text}
\end{figure}
\begin{figure}
    \caption{caption text}
\end{figure}

\end{document}

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Edit

Now with hyperref support, but without showing the page number for chapters and parts. (Please note: due to the toggle style, this won't work if a figure is not in a chapter!) The better way would to ask for the figure number.

\documentclass{report}

\usepackage{xpatch}


\makeatletter

% initial definitions of the part info (name and number)
\def\thisparttitle{}\def\thispartnumber{}
\def\thischaptertitle{}\def\thischapternumber{}

\newtoggle{noFigs}
\newtoggle{noTabs}
\newtoggle{newpart}


\xpatchcmd{\@part}{%
  \addcontentsline{toc}{part}{\thepart\hspace{1em}#1}%
}{%
  \addcontentsline{toc}{part}{\thepart\hspace{1em}#1}%
  \xdef\thisparttitle{#1}%    Evaluate the parameter #1
  \global\togglefalse{noFigs}%
  \global\togglefalse{noTabs}%
  \global\toggletrue{newpart}%
}{\typeout{Patch success}}{\typeout{Patch failure}}


\xpatchcmd{\@chapter}{%
  \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}%
  {\protect\numberline{\thechapter}#1}%
}{%
  \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}%
  {\protect\numberline{\thechapter}#1}% 
  \xdef\thischaptertitle{#1}%  Evaluate the parameter #1
  \global\togglefalse{noFigs}%
  \global\togglefalse{noTabs}%
}{\typeout{Patch success}}{\typeout{Patch failure}}
\makeatother



\usepackage{hyperref}

\AtBeginDocument{%
  \AtBeginEnvironment{figure}{%
    \nottoggle{noFigs}{%
      \iftoggle{newpart}{%
      \addtocontents{lof}{\protect\contentsline{part}{\thepart\hspace{1em}\thisparttitle}{}{part.\theHpart}}%
      \global\togglefalse{newpart}%
      }{}%
      \addtocontents{lof}{\protect\contentsline{chapter}{\protect\numberline{\thechapter}\thischaptertitle}{}{chapter.\theHchapter}}%
      \global\toggletrue{noFigs}
    }{}
  }

  \AtBeginEnvironment{table}{%
    \nottoggle{noTabs}{%
      \iftoggle{newpart}{%
      \addtocontents{lot}{\protect\contentsline{part}{\thepart\hspace{1em}\thisparttitle}{}{part.\theHpart}}%
      \global\togglefalse{newpart}%
      }{}%
      \addtocontents{lot}{\protect\contentsline{chapter}{\protect\numberline{\thechapter}\thischaptertitle}{}{chapter.\theHchapter}}%
      \global\toggletrue{noTabs}%
    }{}
  }
}


\begin{document}

\tableofcontents
\listoffigures
\listoftables

\part{The first}

\chapter{Introduction with no Figures}

\chapter{Test Chapter with Figures}
\begin{figure}
    \caption{caption text}
\end{figure}
\begin{figure}
    \caption{caption text}
\end{figure}

\chapter{Test Chapter with no Figures}

\part{The second}

\chapter{Look no figures here either}


\chapter{Another Test Chapter with Figures}
\begin{figure}
    \caption{caption text from chapter \thechapter}
\end{figure}

\begin{figure}
    \caption{caption text from chapter \thechapter}
\end{figure}
\begin{figure}
    \caption{caption text from chapter \thechapter}
\end{figure}
\begin{figure}
    \caption{caption text from chapter \thechapter}
\end{figure}
\begin{figure}
    \caption{caption text from chapter \thechapter}
\end{figure}
\begin{figure}
    \caption{caption text from chapter \thechapter}
\end{figure}
\begin{figure}
    \caption{caption text from chapter \thechapter}
\end{figure}

%\chapter{Another chapter, without figures}


\chapter{Another in the same part}
    \begin{figure}
        \caption{caption text}
    \end{figure}
    \begin{figure}
        \caption{caption text}
    \end{figure}
    \begin{figure}
        \caption{caption text}
    \end{figure}
    \begin{figure}
        \caption{caption text}
    \end{figure}




\part{Without figs}

\chapter{A chapter with a table}

\begin{table}
\caption{Some table}
\end{table}

\end{document}

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