General ⇒ Typeset LoT as Section, not as Chapter

[bjorn victor]

Hi,

I want to access the collective wisdom of the LaTeX experts here.

When using \tableofcontents, \listoffigures and \listoftables in the book class, they are displayed as chapters. This is usually fine, but now I need to mimic a Word template and it would be great if I could set them as sections.
-> essentially I would like to do this: \section{\listoftables}

I know how to make a section look like a chapter in the ToC, but I want the actual \listoftables to be typeset like a section in the document, not as a chapter.

I hope I was clear enough...

Cheers,
Bjorn

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Bjorn,

no problem. If patching by etoolbox would be ok for you, this works:

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\usepackage{etoolbox}
\newcommand*{\patchlist}[1]{\patchcmd{#1}{\chapter*}{\section*}{}{}}
\patchlist{\tableofcontents}
\patchlist{\listoffigures}
\patchlist{\listoftables}

Stefan