[Tex/LaTex] Wrong page numbering for list of figures and list of tables in Table of Contents!

table of contents

I know other people have asked this question but having scanned through the answers there seems to be two solutions: compiling 3 or 4 times and trying out some snippets of code involving the \markboth command. I have tried both and can't seem to fix it.

It seems to me (with my superficial understanding of Latex) that this is a problem of forward referencing and the more you compile the more accurate the pointers become. I re-compiled up to 7 times and couldn't get this problem to go away.

Here's my master file where I call every other component:

\documentclass[12pt, a4paper,twoside]{./a4LaTex/tesi_upf}
\input{Latex/Macros/Macrofile}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage[english,french]{babel}
\usepackage{textgreek} %%%%% greek letters in text mode
\usepackage{fixltx2e} %%%%%% sub/superscript type face in text mode
\usepackage[a4paper]{geometry}
\usepackage{graphicx}%%%%% including figures
\usepackage[Bjarne]{fncychap}%%%%% fancy chapter names
\pagestyle{plain} %UPF DONT CHANGE

\usepackage{makeidx}
\usepackage{hyperref}%%%%% for links to references
\usepackage{textcomp}
\usepackage{natbib}%%%%% for bibliography
\renewcommand{\bibsection}{\chapter{\bibname}}
\usepackage{verbatim}
\usepackage[LGR,OT1]{fontenc}%%%%% font
\usepackage{epigrafica}%%%%% font
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\usepackage{multirow}
\usepackage{fancybox}
\usepackage{lettrine} % for the beginning of chapters
\usepackage{hyphenat} %%%making life easier with hyphenation
\usepackage{amsmath}  %%%making life easier writing math equations
\usepackage{array}
\usepackage{pdfpages}
\usepackage{boxedminipage}
\usepackage{subfigure}
\usepackage{floatrow}
\usepackage{longtable}
\usepackage{pdfpages}  % for inserting PDF files into Latex
\usepackage{morefloats}


%%%%% Colors of the links
\hypersetup{colorlinks=true,citecolor=black,menucolor=black,linkcolor=black}

\makeindex
\selectlanguage{english}



%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\begin{document}
\hyphenation{biology}
\selectlanguage{english}
\frontmatter % UPF
\maketitle
\clearpage % UPF

% sets line spacing
\renewcommand{\baselinestretch}{1.0}
\baselineskip=18pt

\chapter*{Glossary} % top level followed by section, subsection
\label{glossary}
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Glossary}


\begin{center}
\begin{longtable}{ll}

%Here is the caption, the stuff in [] is the table of contents entry
\caption{List of abbreviations} \label{gloss} \\

%This is the header for the first page of the table...
\hline \hline \\[-2ex]
\multicolumn{1}{l}{\textbf{Abbreviation}} &
\multicolumn{1}{l}{\textbf{Description}} \\[0.5ex] \hline
\\[-1.8ex]
\endfirsthead

%This is the header for the remaining page(s) of the table...
\multicolumn{2}{c}{{\tablename} \thetable{} -- Continued} \\[0.5ex]
\hline \hline \\[-2ex]
\multicolumn{1}{l}{\textbf{Abbreviation}} &
\multicolumn{1}{l}{\textbf{Description}} \\[0.5ex] \hline
\\[-1.8ex]
\endhead

%This is the footer for the last page of the table...
\\[-1.8ex] \hline \hline
\endlastfoot

% now the data
AF &  affinity purification\\
AP2 &  apetala 2\\
ARNTL &  aryl hydrocarbon receptor nuclear translocator-like\\
BMAL1 & brain and muscle ARNT-like 1\\
BMP & bone morphogenetic protein\\
BrdU & bromodeoxyuridine\\
C/EBP & CCAAT/enhancer binding protein\\
CLOCK & circadian locomoter output cycles protein kaput\\
ECM & extracellular matrix\\
EGF & epidermal growth factor\\
FGF & fibroblast growth factor\\
GRHL3 & grainyhead-like 3\\
HF & hair follicle\\
HT & high-throughput\\
HPLC & high-pressure liquid chromatogrphy\\
IEX-HPLC & ion exchange high-pressure liquid chromatography\\
IF & interfollicular\\
IFE & interfollicular epidermis\\
\end{longtable}
\end{center}
\cleardoublepage

%%%%% List of Figures
\listoffigures
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{List of Figures}
\cleardoublepage

%%%%% List Of Tables
\listoftables
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{List of Tables}
\cleardoublepage

% Define what levels to number in the TOC
\setcounter{secnumdepth}{3} % organisational level that receives a number
\setcounter{tocdepth}{2}    % print table of contents for level 3vb e

%%%%% Table of Contents UPF
\tableofcontents
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Contents}
\markboth{Contents}{\textbf{Contents}}
\cleardoublepage


%%%%% no indentation
\setlength{\parindent}{0pt}

\mainmatter
\pagenumbering{arabic}
\clearpage


\cleardoublepage

%%%%% Bibliography
\bibliographystyle{/Users/kianatoufighi/Dropbox/Thesis/ThesisLatex/BibStyles/jmb}
\bibliography{/Users/kianatoufighi/Dropbox/Thesis/ThesisLatex/BibLib/mylibrary}
\end{document}

Best Answer

With your code the number of the last page of the \listoffigures and the last page of the \listoftables will be shown in the \tableofcontents.

Change the order of the commands to

\cleardoublepage
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{List fo Tables}
\listoftables

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[Tex/LaTex] Wrong page number for List of Figures within Table of Contents

The second code you mentioned should work, as egreg already commented. However, you could write the \addcontentsline command into the .lof file, before figures are created, so it's executed at the beginning of the beginning of the list of figures page:

\addtocontents{lof}{\protect\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{List of Figures}}

You need to use \protect before \addcontentsline to prevent the expansion of that macro when it's written to the .lof file.

Another approach would be using the tocbibind package instead of adding those entries manually. tocbibind automatically adds the bibliography and/or the index and/or the contents, list of figures, list of tables etc. to the table of contents. The package provides options for switching off any of these inclusions.

[Tex/LaTex] Wrong page numbering in the Table of contents, of figures and of tables

You need at least two up to three (or more) LaTeX runs to get the table of contents right:

During one LaTeX run the following happens:

\begin{document}: The .aux files are read, entries for the table of contents or list of figures/tables are ignored (because of \let\@writefile\@gobbletwo).
\tableofcontents/\listoffigures/\listoftables call \@startoc{<ext>} (<ext> = toc, lof, or lot).
1. It reads the file \jobname.<ext>, the table of contents (or list of ...) is set.
2. The \jobname.<ext> is cleared and opened for writing.
\chapter, \section, \caption, ... internally call \addcontentsline{}{...}{...}and\addtocontents{}{...}. These write\@writefile{}{...}commands into the.auxfile. This can also happen before\tableofcontents` and friends are called.
\end{document}. After the last page is shipped out, the .aux file is closed and read in again. Now the \@writefile{<ext>}{<contents>} commands are executed and the <contents> is written to the correspondent \jobname.<ext> file or ignored, if \jobname.<ext> is not opened. For example, if there are figure captions, but \listoffigures is not called, then \jobname.lof is not written.

That means the printed table of contents (list of figures, ...) has the status of the previous LaTeX run. In the first LaTeX run, the \jobname.<ext> files are not yet written and the table of contents and the lists are empty. Thus the minimal requirement are two LaTeX runs.

If the table of contents and the lists are not numbered independently, then it can happen, that there are so many entries, that there are more pages than an empty list would need. Then the following page number after the lists increases as all following entries for the lists. Then another LaTeX run is needed.

For example, two side setting with \cleardoublepage:

\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
\cleardoublepage
\chapter{...}
...

An empty table of contents needs one page for the title (Contents) and an empty page (because of \cleardoublepage). The table of contents is three pages long:

First LaTeX run:

1. Page: Contents <otherwise empty>
2. Page: <empty>
3. Page: Chapter 1 ...

Second LaTeX run:

1. Page: Contents, Chapter 1 -> page 3, <other entries>
2. Page: <other entries>
3. Page: <other entries>
4. Page: <empty>
5. Page: Chapter 1 ...

Thus the page number is wrong, but LaTeX does not warn.

Third LaTeX run:

1. Page: Contents, Chapter 1 -> page 5, <other entries>
2. Page: <other entries>
3. Page: <other entries>
4. Page: <empty>
5. Page: Chapter 1 ...

Now, the table of contents is correct.

Rerun warnings

LaTeX does not warn, if another LaTeX run is needed for the table of contents and the other lists. There is a package rerunfilecheck that uses \pdfmdfivesum of pdfTeX (both DVI or PDF mode) to calculate a MD5 checksum over an auxiliary file at the beginning and the end of the job. If something has changed, then the package prints a rerun warning:

\documentclass{book}

\usepackage[starttoc]{rerunfilecheck}

\newcommand*{\cleardoubleemptypage}{%
  \clearpage
  \begingroup
    \pagestyle{empty}%
    \cleardoublepage
  \endgroup
}

\begin{document}
Title page
\cleardoubleemptypage
\tableofcontents
\cleardoubleemptypage
\listoffigures
\cleardoubleemptypage
\listoftables
\cleardoubleemptypage
\chapter{First chapter}
\begin{figure}
\caption{First figure}
\end{figure}
\addtocontents{toc}{\protect\clearpage}% short for many \chapter/\section/... entries
\chapter{Second chapter}
\addtocontents{toc}{\protect\clearpage}% short for many \chapter/\section/... entries
\chapter{Third chapter}
\end{document}

The first and second run generates the warnings:

Package rerunfilecheck Warning: File `test.toc' has changed. Rerun.
Package rerunfilecheck Warning: File `test.lof' has changed. Rerun.

The third run is successful without warnings.

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