General ⇒ Word page before page number in table of contents

[evyn]

Hi all,

Is it possible in for the TOC to put the word PAGE above the page numbers?

ALso, in the \listoffigures and \listoftables I have to put the word FIGURE or TABLE before the table or figure number. Is this possible?

TIA
Regards,
Evyn

[countbela666]

Hi Evyn,

the [url=http://"http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=tocloft"]tocloft[/url] package allows you to customise the toc, lof and lot layout. For your purposes you could use it as follows:

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\documentclass[demo,english]{article}
\usepackage{babel,blindtext,graphicx,tocloft,calc}
%%% put figure and table name before number in respective list
\renewcommand{\cftfigpresnum}{\figurename~}
\renewcommand{\cfttabpresnum}{\tablename~}
%%% adjust space for formatting figure and table number in respective list
\setlength{\cftfignumwidth}{\widthof{\figurename}+2.3em}
\setlength{\cfttabnumwidth}{\widthof{\tablename}+2.3em}
%%% for demo only %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\def\demofig{\begin{figure}\centering\includegraphics{foo}\caption{I'm figure \thefigure}\end{figure}}
\def\demotab{\begin{table}\centering\caption{I'm table \thetable}\begin{tabular}{ll}a&b\\c&d\end{tabular}\end{table}}
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\begin{document}
  %%% add "page" before first toc entry
  \addtocontents{toc}{\protect\hfill{}page\par}
  \tableofcontents
  \listoffigures
  \listoftables
  %%% demo document
  \Blinddocument
  \demofig\demofig\demofig\demofig\demofig\demofig\demofig\demofig\demofig\demofig\clearpage
  \demotab\demotab\demotab\demotab\demotab\demotab\demotab\demotab\demotab\demotab\clearpage
\end{document}

Regards
Marcel

[evyn]

Thanks! I'll give it a try

[monglebest]

The method works very well for the first page in the table of content. But it fails to do so at the second page or third page in the toc. I find a package which can help add the word page in the second page, but I cannot do the same thing for the third page of the table of contents. the same problem exists for lof/lot. Appreciate your support about this. (The similar problem reported in uafthesis as well.)



http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/ ... f-contents

[Johannes_B]

Hi and welcome,

in the linked thread, Herbert suggests to use a manual approach. Did the manual approach work for you?

On the other hand, what meaning do you expect the numbers to have? If not page numbers, like in every other book, what should that be?

[monglebest]

Hi, Johannes_B:

Thank you very much for your reply. I refer to the third page of the toc, the method provided by Herbert work fine until the second page of the toc as attached.

page1.PNG (10.76 KiB) Viewed 9071 times

top page 1 in the toc

page2.PNG (22.43 KiB) Viewed 9071 times

top page 2 in the toc

page3.PNG (5.99 KiB) Viewed 9071 times

top page 3 in the toc

As you can see in the figure above "top page 3 in the toc", though I did as what Herbert suggests to me in the other thread, the third word "page" didn't jump to the third page of the toc. That is my problem.

[Johannes_B]

Well, the approach is manual
You have to use the command to put the text after this page once again. And once again if you have a fourth page.

Please click on »Open in writelatex« (which is now known as Overleaf) to see the output.

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\documentclass[a5paper]{article}
\usepackage{afterpage}
\begin{document}

\tableofcontents

\addtocontents{toc}{~\hfill\textbf{Page}\par}
\section{foo}bar\clearpage
\section{foo}bar\clearpage
\section{foo}bar\clearpage
\section{foo}bar\clearpage
\section{foo}bar\clearpage
\addtocontents{toc}{\protect\afterpage{~\hfill\textbf{Page}\par\medskip}}
\section{foo}bar\clearpage
\section{foo}bar\clearpage
\section{foo}bar\clearpage
\section{foo}bar\clearpage
\section{foo}bar\clearpage
\section{foo}bar\clearpage
\section{foo}bar\clearpage
\section{foo}bar\clearpage
\section{foo}bar\clearpage
\section{foo}bar\clearpage
\section{foo}bar\clearpage
\section{foo}bar\clearpage
\section{foo}bar\clearpage
\addtocontents{toc}{\protect\afterpage{~\hfill\textbf{Page}\par\medskip}}
\section{foo}bar\clearpage
\section{foo}bar\clearpage
\section{foo}bar\clearpage
\section{foo}bar\clearpage
\section{foo}bar\clearpage
\section{foo}bar\clearpage
\section{foo}bar\clearpage
\section{foo}bar\clearpage
\section{foo}bar\clearpage
\section{foo}bar\clearpage
\section{foo}bar\clearpage
\section{foo}bar\clearpage
\section{foo}bar\clearpage
\section{foo}bar\clearpage
\section{foo}bar\clearpage
\section{foo}bar\clearpage
\section{foo}bar\clearpage
\section{foo}bar\clearpage
\section{foo}bar\clearpage
\section{foo}bar\clearpage
\end{document}

[monglebest]

Thanks, Johannes_B.

It works after I makes a few trials.

[monglebest]

Hi, I wonder if that is OK for me to ask a related questions or open a new thread.

I need to do the same thing for lof/lot with additional request to put word figures there. I figure out the code to be

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\addtocontents{lof}{\protect\afterpage{{FIGURE}~\hfill{Page}\par\medskip}} %command to enable second page "PAGE" in
\addtocontents{lof}{\protect\afterpage{~\hfill \par\medskip}} %command to enable second page "PAGE" in toc, together with package{afterpage}, doesn't work well for third page toc

the output is below on the second page:

lof2.PNG (43.9 KiB) Viewed 9067 times

How can move the word "Figure" to the most left side? The thesis reviewer has some concern about it. Thanks.

[Johannes_B]

Please always post complete example, not just code snippets. That reduces time to provide a working solution to a minimum. My guess to simply use \noindnet could have been tested in 10 seconds. Now i had to spend a few minutes building a new testcase.

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\documentclass[a5paper]{article}
\usepackage{afterpage}
\input{multido}
\usepackage{capt-of}
\begin{document}
\pagestyle{headings}
\tableofcontents
\listoffigures

\addtocontents{lof}{\protect\afterpage{\noindent{FIGURE}~\hfill{Page}\par\medskip}} %command to enable second page "PAGE" in
\addtocontents{lof}{\protect\afterpage{~\hfill \par\medskip}} 
\multido{\i=1+1}{20}{\captionof{figure}{some caption}}
\addtocontents{toc}{~\hfill\textbf{Page}\par}
\section{foo}bar\clearpage
\section{foo}bar\clearpage
\section{foo}bar\clearpage
\section{foo}bar\clearpage
\section{foo}bar\clearpage
\addtocontents{toc}{\protect\afterpage{~\hfill\textbf{Page}\par\medskip}}
\section{foo}bar\clearpage
\section{foo}bar\clearpage
\section{foo}bar\clearpage
\section{foo}bar\clearpage
\section{foo}bar\clearpage
\section{foo}bar\clearpage
\section{foo}bar\clearpage
\section{foo}bar\clearpage
\section{foo}bar\clearpage
\section{foo}bar\clearpage
\section{foo}bar\clearpage
\section{foo}bar\clearpage
\section{foo}bar\clearpage
\addtocontents{toc}{\protect\afterpage{~\hfill\textbf{Page}\par\medskip}}
\section{foo}bar\clearpage
\section{foo}bar\clearpage
\section{foo}bar\clearpage
\section{foo}bar\clearpage
\section{foo}bar\clearpage
\section{foo}bar\clearpage
\section{foo}bar\clearpage
\section{foo}bar\clearpage
\section{foo}bar\clearpage
\section{foo}bar\clearpage
\section{foo}bar\clearpage
\section{foo}bar\clearpage
\section{foo}bar\clearpage
\section{foo}bar\clearpage
\section{foo}bar\clearpage
\section{foo}bar\clearpage
\section{foo}bar\clearpage
\section{foo}bar\clearpage
\section{foo}bar\clearpage
\section{foo}bar\clearpage
\end{document}

Please be aware, that thesis can have proper headings. Personally, i think it is redundant to have the words figure and page on every page of the lists. What should the reader expect there? Bananas?

I bet your readers will have a bit of common sense, so i would give this some hard thinking.