[Tex/LaTex] Header with roman and arabic numerals, list of figures integrated into table of contents

header-footerpage-numberingtable of contents

How can I include list of figures, list of tables etc. in the table of content? Additionally I would like to have Roman numerals for the page with the table of contents, list of figures, list of tables AND (!!!) section A. Beginning with section B, I would like to have Arabic numerals as page numbers in the header. How should I modify the code that I have provided? Thanks a lot in advance!

\documentclass[12pt,oneside,a4paper]{article}
    \usepackage{amsmath, amssymb, graphicx, pgfplots, tikz, booktabs, tabularx, float, pgfplotstable, fancyhdr}
    \allowdisplaybreaks
    \usepackage[font=small,labelfont=bf,labelsep=colon]{caption}
    \special{papersize=210mm,297mm}
    \usepackage[left=40mm, top=30mm, right=20mm, bottom=20mm, headsep=12.5mm, headheight=3mm]{geometry}
    \pagestyle{fancy}
    \renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0.0pt}
    \lhead{}
    \chead{}
    \rhead{\makebox[0pt][r]{Title of topic}
           \hspace*{1.66667em}
           \thepage}
    \lfoot{}
    \cfoot{}
    \rfoot{}
    \usepackage{setspace}\onehalfspacing
    \setstretch{1.3}
    \renewcommand\contentsname{Table of Contents}
    \begin{document}
    \newpage
    \tableofcontents
    \newpage
    \listoffigures
    \newpage 
    \listoftables 
    \clearpage 
\section*{Section A}
\section{Section B}

\end{document}

Best Answer

Here's some code. Note that I removed all packages that are unnecessary for the example.

\documentclass[12pt,oneside,a4paper]{article}

\usepackage[
 left=40mm,
 top=30mm,
 right=20mm,
 bottom=20mm,
 headsep=12.5mm,
 headheight=14.5pt, %%% 3mm is too small
 heightrounded
]{geometry}

\usepackage{fancyhdr,xpatch}

\pagestyle{fancy}
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0.0pt}
\fancyhf{}
\fancyhead[R]{Title of topic --- \thepage}

\makeatletter
\let\ORI@section\section
\renewcommand{\section}{\@ifstar\s@section\ORI@section}
\newcommand{\s@section}[1]{%
  \ORI@section*{#1}
  \csname phantomsection\endcsname % for hyperref
  \addcontentsline{toc}{section}{#1}
}
\xpatchcmd{\tableofcontents}{\section}{\ORI@section}{}{} % toc not in toc
\makeatother

\begin{document}
\pagenumbering{roman}

\tableofcontents
\clearpage

\listoffigures
\clearpage

\listoftables 
\clearpage

\section*{Section A}

\clearpage
\pagenumbering{arabic}

\section{Section B}

\end{document}

The code redefines \section so that \section* will automatically add it to the table of contents. There's only one catch: \tableofcontents uses \section*, so it has been patched in order to use the original version of the command.

Some points to note about your original code:

  1. \special is not needed, because geometry takes care of it
  2. the headheight you specified is too small
  3. \makebox[0pt][r]{Title of topic} does nothing more than the simple Title of topic, because fancyhdr uses right alignment anyway there; I also added a dash to separate the title from the page number.
  4. \onehalfspacing is countermanded by \setstretch{1.3}; if you can, avoid increasing the leading.

enter image description here

If you want to reduce the spacing between section titles, add the following line

\xpatchcmd{\l@section}{1.0em}{0.5ex}{}{}

immediately before \makeatother in the given code. Adjust 0.5ex to what suits you. For the image, I added two subsections in order to give the flavor.

enter image description here

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