Document Classes ⇒ appendix in tocloft

[jihad]

Hi,
I had a problem similar to many of you when wanting to have my table of contents look like the one below (see bottom of page). So I decided to use tocloft since that is what many of you advised. However I am having problem separating having a different format in the TOC for the appendix... That is my appendices are listed like a chapter in the TOC while I would like to play with the chapter format in the TOC while keeping the appendix simple " Appendix A" , "Appendix B".... is there a way to do that ?

Anyone can send me an example of \tocloft that can explain how to manage the TOC well... because I looked at the documentation, and yes I am ashamed to say, did not help much. Especially that I am under a tight deadline and I lost the whole day to format the TOC.


Dedication .................................. ii
Abstract .................................. vi
Chapter 1: Why ? ..........................1
Chapter 2: What is a good book for latex programming ? ...55

Appendix A ....................................
Appendix B ....................................


SO far what I am using is this:

\usepackage[subfigure]{tocloft}
\usepackage{tocloft}

\renewcommand{\cftchapfont}{\bfseries}
\renewcommand{\cftchappagefont}{\bfseries}
\renewcommand{\cftchappresnum}{Chapter }
\renewcommand{\cftchapaftersnum}{:}
\renewcommand{\cftchapnumwidth}{6em}

But this gave me :
Chapter A: Appendix to chapter 2 ... ( Not nice )
furthermore after using \tocloft the TOC and other tables are not anymore on a new page ..

[jihad]

Some help please ?

how can I modify the way the appendix appears in the TOC without changing the way the other chapters appear...using tocloft

[gmedina]

Hi jihad,

In the code below I suggest a possibility. I used the titlesec package to modify \paragraph and make it behave as \chapter. Now the changes made to the way chapters are shown in the ToC using tocloft will not affect the appendices. You can adapt my example according to your needs.

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\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{titlesec}
\usepackage{tocloft}

\renewcommand{\cftchapfont}{\bfseries}
\renewcommand{\cftchappagefont}{\bfseries}
\renewcommand{\cftchappresnum}{\chaptername }
\renewcommand{\cftchapaftersnum}{:}
\renewcommand{\cftchapnumwidth}{6em}

\titleformat{\paragraph}[display]
  {\normalfont\huge\bfseries}{\chaptertitlename\ \thechapter}{20pt}{\Huge}
\titlespacing*{\paragraph} {0pt}{50pt}{40pt}

\setcounter{secnumdepth}{5}

\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
\clearpage
\listoffigures
\clearpage
\listoftables
\clearpage

\chapter{Test 1}
\chapter{Test 2}
\clearpage
\renewcommand\thechapter{\Alph{chapter}}
\setcounter{chapter}{1}
\paragraph{First Appendix}
\thispagestyle{plain}
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Appendix A}
\clearpage
\stepcounter{chapter}
\paragraph{Second Appendix}
\thispagestyle{plain}
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Appendix B}

\end{document}