General ⇒ Cannot access \contentsname...

[Origin]

I want to change the name of the Table of Contents, and I am not able to:

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\renewcommand{\contentsname}

since \contentsname does not exist. The same is true for \bibname.

I assume this has something to do with where the files are located, as my article.cls is in a far off directory under MikTeX.

Any ideas?

Thank you very much for the help.

[localghost]

Renaming the ToC should work like you tried when not using babel. The bibliography name in the article class has another command.

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\renewcommand{\contentsname}{Contents name}
\renewcommand{\refname}{References name}

If that doesn't work for you, build a minimal working example (MWE) to show the problem.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten¹

[daleif]

I want to change the name of the Table of Contents, and I am not able to:

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\renewcommand{\contentsname}

since \contentsname does not exist. The same is true for \bibname.

I assume this has something to do with where the files are located, as my article.cls is in a far off directory under MikTeX.

Any ideas?

Thank you very much for the help.

a minimal example would have helped