Text Formatting ⇒ change appendix label

[kvaso]

Hi,
could you please help me, how to rename appendix label?
e.g.:

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Appendix A This is my appendix chapter

into

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MyAppx A This is my appendix chapter

(there is some weird Slovak translation of word appendix, so I want to change it)

thanks a lot

working example:

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\documentclass[oneside,english]{book}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[latin9]{inputenc}
\setcounter{secnumdepth}{3}
\setcounter{tocdepth}{3}
\usepackage{babel}

\begin{document}

\chapter{Sample chapter}

some text here

\appendix

\chapter{The first appendix}

some text \#2


\chapter{The second appendix}

some text \#3
\end{document}

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi kvaso,

welcome to the board!

It's great that you post a minimal working example. That makes it easy to help. After loading babel by \usepackage{babel}, use this line for modifying the appendix name:

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\addto{\captionsenglish}{\renewcommand*{\appendixname}{MyAppx}}

A simple \renewcommand* would not be sufficient, at least within the preamble, since babel does modifications at the beginning of a document. Its feature \addto helps to solve such issues.

If English won't be used, a different macro name instead of \captionsenglish would be required, matching the used language.

Stefan

[kvaso]

unfortunately I can't make it work
could you please give a your working example

I've put it right after \appendix command
(I am using code I provided earlier, so English is used)
thx

[kvaso]

my fault...

I just need to read better - you hava already written that

After loading babel by \usepackage{babel}, use this line for modifying the appendix name:

thanks again