I'm writing a PhD thesis, and my university requires that I list the appendices in a "List of Appendices" (LOA) that is separate from the main table of contents (TOC). I've successfully created a LOA using the tocloft
package. The problem is that the appendices are still also listed in the TOC.
One unsatisfactory workaround is to use the asterisk'ed forms of \chapter
and \section
in the appendices. Among other reasons, I don't like this because it removes the appendix letter from the appendices' title pages.
How can I keep the appendix numbers in the LOA, but remove them from the TOC?
I am using the appendices
, tocloft
and quotchap
packages.
Below is a minimal compilable example.
\documentclass[12pt,draft,letterpaper]{report}
\usepackage{quotchap}
\usepackage[titles]{tocloft}
\usepackage{appendix}
\newlistof{appendixchapter}{apx}{List of Appendices}
\newcommand{\appendixchapter}[1]{%
% These three lines are needed to list the appendix letter in the List Of
% Appendices even when using \chapter*
\refstepcounter{appendixchapter}%
\refstepcounter{chapter}%
\providecommand{\DOTIS}[1]{\DOCH \DOTI{#1}}
% '*' removes the appendix from the table of contents.
\chapter*{#1}
% Lists the appendix in the List of Appendices.
\addcontentsline{apx}{appendixchapter}{Appendix \protect\numberline{\theappendixchapter}#1}\par%
\vspace {-1.47cm}}
\renewcommand{\theappendixchapter}{\Alph{appendixchapter}}
\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
\listofappendixchapter\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{List of Appendices}
\chapter{My first chapter}
This is Chapter 1's body.
\appendixchapter{My first appendix}
This is Appendix A's body.
\appendixchapter{My second appendix}
This is Appendix B's body.
\end{document}
Best Answer
There's really no need to define a new command for the chapter in the appendices section; just before the appendices you can redefine the
\@chapter
command (defined inreport.cls
), to include the appendices in the new list instead of including them in the ToC; here's an example of such a redefinition; note that the second mandatory argument of\newlistof
must be used in the redefinition of\chapter
(see the lines marked with%NEW
):An excerpt from the resulting document showing the ToC and the LoA:
As requested, here's the code necessary to use a new command
\appendixchapter
(similar to\chapter
) for the appendices; the new definition needs two new commands\appendixchapter
and\@appendixchapter
; only the first one will be used in the document body: