[Tex/LaTex] “Something’s wrong–perhaps a missing \item” in adding list of appendices

appendicestable of contents

According to the following non-working example, I need to add a "List of Appendices" to my document:

\documentclass[doublespaced,12pt]{ut-thesis}

\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage[toc,page,titletoc]{appendix}

\degree{A}
\department{B}
\gradyear{C}
\author{D}
\title{E}

\setcounter{tocdepth}{2}

\makeatletter
\@openrightfalse
\makeatother

\begin{document}

\begin{preliminary}

\maketitle

\begin{abstract}
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Abstract}
F
\end{abstract}


\begin{acknowledgements}
    \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Acknowledgements}
    G
\end{acknowledgements}

\cleardoublepage
\phantomsection

\addtocontents{toc}{chapter}{List of Appendices}

\newpage  

\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Contents}

\tableofcontents

\end{preliminary}

\begin{appendices}
    \input{app}
\end{appendices}

\end{document}

where app.tex is simply like:

\chapter{Procedures}

\leavevmode

The implemented procedures of ...

But I have no idea about the following thrown error:

Something's wrong–perhaps a missing \item. …entsline
{chapter}{Contents}{v}{section*.3}

The content of ut-thesis.toc looks like the following after faulty compilation:

\select@language {english}
\contentsline {chapter}{Abstract}{ii}{section*.1}
\contentsline {chapter}{Acknowledgements}{iii}{section*.2}
chapter
\contentsline {chapter}{Contents}{v}{section*.3}
\contentsline {chapter}{Appendices}{1}{section*.5}
\contentsline {chapter}{Appendix \numberline {A}Procedures}{2}{Appendix.a.A}

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\addtocontents{toc}{chapter}{List of Appendices}

is wrong. It should be

\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{List of Appendices}

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[Tex/LaTex] List of Appendices

Rooting through the cls file in the link posted above, I tried to dissect the following block, which looked rather promising:

\newcommand\listofappendices{%
    \@chapteronefalse
    \if@arabic\relax\else\renewcommand{\thepage}{\roman{page}}\fi
    \if@twocolumn
      \@restonecoltrue\onecolumn
    \else
      \@restonecolfalse
    \fi
    \chapteruaf*{\listappname
      \@mkboth{\uppercase{\listappname}}%
              {\uppercase{\listappname}}}%
    \@chapteronetrue
    %% get this in contents as a section
    \addcontentsline{toc}{section}{\listappname}
    \@starttoc{loa}%
    \if@restonecol\twocolumn\fi
    \newpage\renewcommand{\thepage}{\arabic{page}}}

Basically, I realized that this command was setting up the List of Appendices for me, all I needed was a way to automatically populate it, instead of manually adding entries to the loa file.

At the head of each Appendix:

\chapter*{This is the first appendix}
\addcontentsline{loa}{appendix}{This is the entry for the first appendix in the List of Appendices}

The \chapter* suppresses a TOC entry for the appendix, while the \addcontentsline adds the entry to the LOA file. To get the style to match, I added the following line to the end of the code block in the cls file:

\newcommand\l@appendix{\@dottedtocline{1}{1.5em}{2.3em}}

Works perfectly now, and I don't have to worry about manually creating the List of Appendices every time I build my document.

[Tex/LaTex] Appendices title before list of appendices

With KOMA-Script you can use:

\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Appendices}

Update: If you want the Title apendices also print as own page you can use:

\usepackage{hyperref}   

\phantomsection                            % hyperref jumps to this point
\chapter*{Appendices}\label{sec:Anhang}    % no entry in toc
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Appendices} % entry in toc without numbering

Update 2: To get Appendicesin the table of contents without pagenumbering use:

\addchap*{Appendices}
\addtocontents{toc}{\protect\usekomafont{chapterentry}{Appendices}}

Update 3: To be sure that you get no numbering for the page in the table of contents you can use this "brute force":

\addchap*{Appendices}
\addtocontents{toc}{\protect\contentsline {chapter}{Appendices}{}{}}

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