[Tex/LaTex] List of figures as chapter

table of contents

I want my list of figures look like an ordinary chapter in my appendix. But right now my table of contents looks like this: enter image description here

This is how I add my list of figures:

\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{\listfigurename}
\listoffigures

Apparently \listoffigures uses \chapter* instead of \chapter. Basically I want the numbering to look like this:

Appendix
A. List of Figures
B. Appendix test chapter 1
C. Appendix test chapter 2

I tried using \patchcmd from etoolbox as suggested here but it had no effect.

\patchcmd{\listoffigures}{\chapter*}{\chapter}{}{}

Is it possible to do it like this? Is there a better way?

Edit: I just came up with the following hack:

\renewcommand\listfigurename{A. List of Figures}
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{\listfigurename}
\listoffigures
\setcounter{chapter}{1}

This fixes my table of contents but unfortunately the pdf bookmark for my list of figures is now name "A. List of Figures" as well but I want it to be simply "List of Figures".

Edit2 with MWE:

\documentclass{scrreprt}

\begin{document}

\tableofcontents{}

\chapter{Chapter 1}

\part{Appendix}

\appendix
\pagenumbering{Roman}

\listoffigures

\chapter{Appendix chapter 1}
\chapter{Appendix chapter 2}

\end{document}

Best Answer

The scrreprt class already has the relevant feature:

\documentclass[listof=numbered]{scrreprt}

\begin{document}

\tableofcontents

\chapter{Chapter 1}

\cleardoublepage
\pagenumbering{Roman}
\appendix

\listoffigures

\chapter{Appendix chapter 1}
\chapter{Appendix chapter 2}

\end{document}

Add \cleardoublepage before changing the page numbering style (but the appendix with Roman page numbers is very unusual).

enter image description here

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Here is another approach. What it does is to check at the end of the document the values of the figure and table counters, and add to the .aux file a boolean flag setting depending on whether these values are zero or positive.

Then you have on next run \iffigures and \iftables which allow you to act conditionally.

In the code below, perhaps the \global are not really needed, I didn't check.

See also a variant at bottom which does not use the figure/table counters because they might well be reset to zero due to document sectioning (as pointed out by egreg in a comment).

\documentclass[10pt,twocolumn]{article}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage[margin=0.75in]{geometry}
\usepackage{float}
\floatstyle{boxed}

\restylefloat{figure}
\restylefloat{table}

\newif\iffigures
\newif\iftables

\makeatletter
\AtEndDocument {%
    \if@filesw
       \ifnum\value{figure}=\z@ % no figures
          \immediate\write\@mainaux {\global\string\figuresfalse}%
       \else
          \immediate\write\@mainaux {\global\string\figurestrue}%
       \fi
       \ifnum\value{table}=\z@ % no tables
          \immediate\write\@mainaux {\global\string\tablesfalse}%
       \else
          \immediate\write\@mainaux {\global\string\tablestrue}%
       \fi
    \fi
}
\makeatother 

% for the purpose of testing

% this will make a MWE without tables
\long\def\IGNORE #1\ENDIGNORE{}

% uncomment to make a MWE with tables
% \let\IGNORE\empty
% \let\ENDIGNORE\empty

\begin{document}

\tableofcontents

% 
\iffigures
   \addcontentsline{toc}{section}{List of Figures}
   \listoffigures
\fi

% 
\iftables
   \addcontentsline{toc}{section}{List of Table}
   \listoftables
\fi

\section{First section}
\lipsum[\inputlineno]
\begin{figure}[H]\centering
\LaTeX\LaTeX
\caption{my figure}
\end{figure}
\lipsum[\inputlineno]
\begin{figure}[H]\centering
\LaTeX\TeX
\caption{another figure}
\end{figure}
\section{Second section}
\lipsum[\inputlineno]
\IGNORE
\begin{table}[H]\centering
\TeX\LaTeX
\caption{my table}
\end{table}
\ENDIGNORE
\lipsum[\inputlineno]
\IGNORE
\begin{table}[H]\centering
\TeX\TeX
\caption{another table}
\end{table}
\ENDIGNORE
\lipsum[\inputlineno]
\end{document}

Here is for a document with figures but no tables:

without tables

And if tables are present:

with tables

Three compilations needed.

Variant. I don't know to what extent patching \figure and \table as here is OK, depends perhaps on float related packages. At the worst I guess doing the patches immediately after \begin{document} should be enough (at the end of preamble might not be enough if some package does stuff during At Begin Document).

\documentclass[10pt,twocolumn]{article}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage[margin=0.75in]{geometry}
\usepackage{float}
\floatstyle{boxed}

\restylefloat{figure}
\restylefloat{table}

\newif\iffigures
\newif\iftables

\makeatletter

\let\OLDfigure\figure
\def\figure {\figures@in@document\OLDfigure }
\let\OLDtable\table
\def\table  {\tables@in@document\OLDtable }

\def\figures@in@document {%
    \immediate\write\@mainaux {\global\string\figurestrue}%
    \global\let\figures@in@document\empty
}

\def\tables@in@document {%
    \immediate\write\@mainaux {\global\string\tablestrue}%
    \global\let\tables@in@document\empty
}

\makeatother

% for the purpose of testing

% this will make a MWE without tables
\long\def\IGNORE #1\ENDIGNORE{}

% uncomment to make a MWE with tables
%\let\IGNORE\empty
%\let\ENDIGNORE\empty

\begin{document}

\tableofcontents

% 
\iffigures
   \addcontentsline{toc}{section}{List of Figures}
   \listoffigures
\fi

% 
\iftables
   \addcontentsline{toc}{section}{List of Table}
   \listoftables
\fi

\section{First section}
\lipsum[\inputlineno]
\begin{figure}[H]\centering
\LaTeX\LaTeX
\caption{my figure}
\end{figure}
\lipsum[\inputlineno]
\begin{figure}[H]\centering
\LaTeX\TeX
\caption{another figure}
\end{figure}
\section{Second section}
\lipsum[\inputlineno]
\IGNORE
\begin{table}[H]\centering
\TeX\LaTeX
\caption{my table}
\end{table}
\ENDIGNORE
\lipsum[\inputlineno]
\IGNORE
\begin{table}[H]\centering
\TeX\TeX
\caption{another table}
\end{table}
\ENDIGNORE
\lipsum[\inputlineno]
\end{document}

[Tex/LaTex] list of figures/tables shortened name with math symbols

The short and long caption titles of the question should work fine. A typical problem with caption titles for the list of figures is that fragile macros can break. Then they can be protected by \protect. Example, if \foobar is such a macro, then it is protected the following way:

\caption[Some text \protect\foobar]{Long caption text}

Another typical problem is, when stuff in the optional argument also contains optional arguments or square brackets. TeX does not check for matched square brackets unlike it does with curly braces. Then they can be protected by curly braces, e.g.:

\caption[{Some [short] text}]{Long caption text}

The following example shows, that the caption of the question does not cause problems. The only macro is \pm, which is not fragile, when defined by LaTeX. Also the example shows the usage of package siunitx for the number, a powerful package for numbers, units and both. It takes care of formatting and spaces.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{siunitx}
\begin{document}
\listoffigures
\begin{figure}
\caption[short title $\pm$ 10$^{5}$]{long title for text}
\end{figure}
\begin{figure}
\caption[short title \num{+-e5}]{long title for text}
\end{figure}
\end{document}

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