Page Layout ⇒ toc indent reset for appendices

[robbjunk]

I am fairly new to LaTex but pieced together this code to format my dissertation. Everything in my table is set the way it is required except for my appendices. There is a space due to the cftchapnumwidth option that is needed so that the Chapters are formatted correctly. How can I reset this option back to default for the appednices?

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\documentclass[12pt]{report}

%title edits
\usepackage{tocloft, titlesec, sectsty }
\usepackage[titletoc]{appendix}

%others
\usepackage{setspace}
\usepackage{times}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

%chapter and title formatting
\renewcommand{\contentsname}{\begin{center}TABLE OF CONTENTS\end{center}}

\renewcommand{\appendixname}{APPENDIX}

\titlespacing*{\chapter}{0pt}{-50pt}{20pt}

\renewcommand\chaptername{CHAPTER}
\titleformat{\chapter}[hang]{\fontfamily{ptm}\large\bfseries\centering}{\chaptertitlename\ \thechapter}{1em}{} 
\titleformat*{\section}{\Large\bfseries}


%table of contents
\newcommand{\newchapter}[1]
{   \renewcommand{\thechapter}{\Roman{chapter}}
    \chapter{#1}
    \renewcommand{\thechapter}{\arabic{chapter}}
}
\setlength{\cftsecindent}{1.5cm}
\renewcommand{\cftchapdotsep}{4.5}   % same spacing as for sections

\renewcommand{\cftchapfont}{\bfseries}
\renewcommand{\cftchapleader}{\bfseries\cftdotfill{\cftchapdotsep}}
\renewcommand{\cftchappagefont}{\bfseries}
\renewcommand{\cftchappresnum}{CHAPTER }
\renewcommand{\cftchapnumwidth}{2.8cm}

%test command
\newcommand*\updatechaptername{%
        \addtocontents{toc}{\protect\renewcommand*\protect\cftchappresnum{\@\ }}
}
\makeatother

\begin{document}

\newpage
\normalsize
\tableofcontents{}
\chapter{First chapter}
\section{first section}

\pagebreak
\begin{appendices}
\updatechaptername
\chapter{SYMBOL LIST}
\end{appendices}

\end{document}

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi,

welcome to the board!

It would work if you would not use the appendix package, this way: change this macro:

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\newcommand*\updatechaptername{%
  \addtocontents{toc}{\protect\renewcommand*\protect\cftchappresnum{APPENDIX\ }}
}

and in the document write:

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\pagebreak
\appendix
\updatechaptername
\chapter{SYMBOL LIST}

By the way, I would not use an all-caps style (CHAPTER, APPENDIX), which reminds of times of typewriters where this and underlining was the only possibility of emphasis. Furthermore, bold and big and completely capitalized looks too heavy, just my opinion.

Stefan

[robbjunk]

Thank you Stefan, that worked great.

I agree with you about the all-caps style, but this is the form my school requires for its dissertations.