General ⇒ Change table of contents title

[jolle]

Hi,

I'm writing a non-english document in LaTeX, so I would like to change the title of the table of contents generated by the \tableofcontents command. I'm failry inexperienced with LaTeX and have no clue how to do that, so any help would be appreciated.

- Jolle

[localghost]

Regardless of the language you want to write in, you should take a look at the babel package for multilingual documents. It redefines such names according to the given language and provides the correct hyphenation. Refer to its documentation and choose your language.


Best regards
Thorsten¹

[jolle]

Thanks for the suggestion; I will definitely use that package in the future. However, this document is already finished except for the toc title and a few other details, and I would like to keep everything as is. So in this case, I'd prefer to just change the toc title.

- Jolle

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi,

without babel you could just use

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\renewcommand*\contentsname{new name}

Stefan

[localghost]

Inserting babel will not cause any changes in your document concerning paper and pages dimensions or the general layout of your document. So, this is the preferable way of changing the ToC name. But, if you insist.

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\renewcommand{\contentsname}{Inhaltsverzeichnis}

Note that wrong hyphenation for your chosen language will be kept. Hence using babel is strongly recommend.

[jolle]

Ah, that's exactly what I was looking for! Thanks!

[c.mafla]

Hi....how can i do the same thing for the 'List of Figures' and the 'List of Tables'


Thanks

[c.mafla]

Hi...sorry..I just found the answer in a previous post..

thanks..

the answer was:

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\renewcommand*\listfigurename{List of figures}

Just that

[troelslp]

I've tried these methods in Lyx without luck. But via 'Insert TeX Code' and the Documents - Settings Latex Preamble.

For some reason my documents keeps calling the table of contents for 'Contents' ..

Any ideas?

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Welcome to the board!

If you use babel, use this, modify corresponding to your language:

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\addto{\captionsenglish}{\renewcommand*{\contentsname}{Table of contents}}

Stefan