[Tex/LaTex] Errors with tocloft

Question

I'm trying to use tocloft to create a list of equations in the contents table of my thesis, but it's erroring when I compile the document. I've used \newcounter to define a new list of R scripts for the appendices, and it seems that this new counter is not compatible with tocloft.

  \documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{book}
  \usepackage{anysize,array,multirow,graphicx,epstopdf,natbib,caption,color,hhline,symlist,amsmath,acronym,subfig,listings,placeins,hyperref,wrapfig,rotating,tocloft} 
  \usepackage[svgnames]{xcolor}
  \marginsize{3cm}{3cm}{2cm}{2cm}

  \captionsetup[table]{skip=4pt,font=footnotesize} %works with package{caption} to skip the height from the table, and to select 10pt as the text size 
  \captionsetup[figure]{skip=4pt,font=footnotesize} %works with package{caption} to skip the height from the table, and to select 10pt as the text size 

  \DeclareCaptionType{equationme}[][List of Equations] %this is a work-around to get a list of equations with page numbers in my contents page, however it adds a caption to my equations (not ideal!!)
  \captionsetup[equationme]{skip=4pt,font=footnotesize}

  \newlength{\Oldarrayrulewidth}

  \newcommand{\Cline}[2]{%
  \noalign{\global\setlength{\Oldarrayrulewidth}{\arrayrulewidth}}%
  \noalign{\global\setlength{\arrayrulewidth}{#1}}\cline{#2}%
  \noalign{\global\setlength{\arrayrulewidth}{\Oldarrayrulewidth}}}

 %this is the R bit............
  \newcounter{Script}[section]
  \newenvironment{Script}[1][]{\refstepcounter{Script}\par\medskip
  \textbf{Script~\theScript. #1} \rmfamily}{\medskip}


  \begin{document}

  \listofequationme
  \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{List of Equations}

  \begin{equationme}[!ht]
  \caption[Earthquake magnitude affect on landsliding]{Relationship between earthquake magnitude and the potential area affected by landsliding as defined by \hilight{Keefer}, where A' is the potential area affected.}
      \begin{equation}
      \label{eq:EQMagnitudelsArea}
      log_{10} \newsym{Potential area affected}{A'} = \newsym{Earthquake magnitude}{M}-3.46(\pm0.47)
      \end{equation}
  \end{equationme}

  \end{document}

While the list works fine for the equations, I don't want to have to have a caption above it… So can someone either tell me how to edit \captionsetup or how to get tocloft to work alongside the \newcounter{Script}[section] command as this is where I seem to be getting an error…

Error is:

Command \c@lotdepth already defined. \newcounter{lotdepth}

I really hope this makes sense as I'm going a little loopy right now!

Answer 1

The main problem is the loading order of subfig and tocloft.

subfig defines c@lotdepth by a \@nameuse statement - as such it's already defined at the time when tocloft tries to setup this new counter.

The same is true for c@lofdepth, leading to a similar error.

The other way round, using tocloft first before loading subfig poses no problem.

Another solution is to remove the loading of subfig -- it's apparently not used in the 'MWE'

(I also cleaned up the document, slightly)

\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{book}
\usepackage{anysize}
\usepackage{array}
\usepackage{multirow}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{epstopdf}
\usepackage{natbib}
\usepackage{caption}
\usepackage{hhline}
\usepackage{symlist}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{acronym}
\usepackage{tocloft} 
\usepackage{subfig}

\usepackage{listings}
\usepackage{placeins}
\usepackage{wrapfig}
\usepackage{rotating}
\usepackage[svgnames]{xcolor}
\usepackage{hyperref}

\marginsize{3cm}{3cm}{2cm}{2cm}

% Unused
%\captionsetup[table]{skip=4pt,font=footnotesize} %works with package{caption} to skip the height from the table, and to select 10pt as the text size 
%\captionsetup[figure]{skip=4pt,font=footnotesize} %works with package{caption} to skip the height from the table, and to select 10pt as the text size 

\DeclareCaptionType{equationme}[][List of Equations] %this is a work-around to get a list of equations with page numbers in my contents page, however it adds a caption to my equations (not ideal!!)
\captionsetup[equationme]{skip=4pt,font=footnotesize}

\newlength{\Oldarrayrulewidth}

\newcommand{\Cline}[2]{%
  \noalign{\setlength{\Oldarrayrulewidth}{\arrayrulewidth}}%
  \noalign{\setlength{\arrayrulewidth}{#1}}\cline{#2}%
  \noalign{\setlength{\arrayrulewidth}{\Oldarrayrulewidth}}}

% this is the R bit............
\newcounter{Script}[section]
\newenvironment{Script}[1][]{%
  \refstepcounter{Script}\par\medskip
  \textbf{Script~\theScript. #1} \rmfamily}{\medskip}


\providecommand{\hilight}[1]{%
  #1%
}

\begin{document}

\listofequationme
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{List of Equations}

\begin{equationme}[!ht]
  \caption[Earthquake magnitude affect on landsliding]{Relationship between earthquake magnitude and the potential area affected by landsliding as defined by \hilight{Keefer}, where A' is the potential area affected.}
  \begin{equation}
    \label{eq:EQMagnitudelsArea}
    log_{10} \newsym{Potential area affected}{A'} = \newsym{Earthquake magnitude}{M}-3.46(\pm0.47)
  \end{equation}
\end{equationme}

\end{document}