General ⇒ Seperate List of Appendices

[gbrauen]

Thanks to gmedina and S_David. This discussion helped me to figure out how I'm going to create a separate List of Appendices for my thesis. But in the end, the solution proposed here seemed more complicated than I need. I am using the book class which suits what I need. Going back to The LaTeX Companion (pg. 30-33), I came up with this.

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% define commands to create a separate list of appendices
\makeatletter

% define command to be inserted where the list is to be inserted - this creates
% an auxiliary file for the appendix list with a .app extension
\newcommand{\listofappendices}{\@starttoc{app}}

% define command to be used to insert an appendix string into the app
% table with entry type myappendix
\newcommand{\addtoappendixlist}[1]{\addcontentsline{app}{myappendix}{#1}}

% define the command actually used to start an Appendix - generate an
% unnumbered chapter header and then insert the string name into the table.
\newcommand{\appchapter}[1]{\chapter*{#1}\addtoappendixlist{#1}}

% define the required command needed to format a myappendix type entry in
% the table.  It uses the standard \@dottedtocline command to actually format
% the entry in the table.
\newcommand{\l@myappendix}[2]{\@dottedtocline{1}{1.5em}{2.3em}{#1}{#2}}
\makeatother

In the body of my document then, the List of Appendices is created using:

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\chapter*{List of Appendices}
\listofappendices

Then each appendix begins simply with:

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\appchapter{Appendix A: Some appendix-type material}

Glenn