General ⇒ List of Appendices

[Wolf77]

Hi All,

I have an appendices problem that I hope you can help me solve. My school requires that the dissertation include a separate list of appendices that will appear after the list of tables. I am stuck, trying to creating this list of appendices (I have 7 at the moment).

As of now, all my appendices are listed in the main TOC.

Here is a MWE:

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\documentclass[12pt]{report}
\usepackage{hyperref}  
\usepackage{appendix}

\begin{document}
\pagenumbering{roman}

\section*{Abstract} \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Abstract} \newpage 

\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Contents} \tableofcontents \newpage

\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{List of Figures} \listoffigures \newpage

\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{List of Tables} \listoftables \newpage

\chapter*{List of Appendices} \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{List of Appendices} \newpage


\pagenumbering{arabic}


\chapter{Chapter 1} 
\input{chapter1.tex}
\newpage

\chapter{Chapter 2} 
\input{chapter2.tex}
\newpage

\appendix
\addappheadtotoc

\input{AppendixA.tex}
\newpage

\input{AppendixB.tex}

\end{document} 

Each Appendix*.tex file start with \chapter command, e.g. AppendixA.tex start with \chapter{Additional Info}

I appreciate your help in with puzzle.

[gmedina]

Hi,

in the code below I give you a possible solution. The idea is to create a new contents file that will list the appendices:

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\documentclass[12pt]{report}
\usepackage{tocbibind}%ToC,LoF,LoT, bibliography and index automatically referenced in ToC
\usepackage{hyperref} 
\usepackage{appendix}
\usepackage{lipsum}%just to generate some text

%definition of the list of appendices
\makeatletter
  \newcommand\tableofappendices
    {\section*{List of Appendices}\@starttoc{toa}}
  \newcommand\l@appendix[2]
    {\par\noindent\bfseries{#1}\hfill\bfseries{#2}\par}
\makeatother

\begin{document}
\pagenumbering{roman}

\section*{Abstract} 
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Abstract} 

\newpage

\tableofcontents 
\clearpage
\listoffigures 
\clearpage
\listoftables 
\clearpage
\tableofappendices
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{List of Appendices} 
\clearpage

\pagenumbering{arabic}

\chapter{Chapter 1}
\lipsum[1-15]
\newpage

\chapter{Chapter 2}
\lipsum[1-15]
\newpage

\appendix
\addappheadtotoc

%create each appendix using \chapter* and include them in the list of appendices
%as shown:
\addtocontents{toa}{\addvspace{20pt}}%just to separate the heading and the first entry
\chapter*{Appendix A}
%\addtocontents{toa}{\addvspace{20pt}}
\addcontentsline{toa}{appendix}{Appendix A}
\addtocontents{toa}{\addvspace{10pt}}%just to separate the entries in the list
\lipsum[1-15]
\newpage

\chapter*{Appendix B}
\addcontentsline{toa}{appendix}{Appendix B}
\addtocontents{toa}{\addvspace{10pt}}%just to separate the entries in the list
\lipsum[1-15]

\end{document} 

Remarks:
1) You can adapt and improve this idea according to your needs.
2) I loaded the tocbibind package to get the ToC , LoF and LoT automatically included in the table of contents.

[Wolf77]

Hello Gmedina,

Thank you for your reply. The example that you gave really does the trick.

However, I have a problem that all the references that I have in the main text to the appendices have disappeared (I use \label and \ref). Is there anyway to recreate the references and still have the separate list of appendices?

Again thank you for your help,
Wolf