General ⇒ Command in LaTex

[Hakarl]

A friend of my was helping set up a master file for a book. It is been while since this happened but as I tried to add Appenices (As chapters not sections since it for a book) so odd things happened. In the TOC the Appendix headings repeated - such as in Appendix A Appendix A and moreover overprinted the title of the Appendix Chapter. Also he had include a command which I have % out since nothing ran with. So I have two questions: First, what is the command and what does it do? Second, why is the appendix heading showing up twice. I am at a loss. Here is the code:

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\begin{appendices}
\appendix
%\updatechaptername - what is this for and what does it do???
\addtocontents{toc}{\def\protect\cftchappresnum{\appendixname{} }}
\input{App1_ Chaps/Append_folder/AppendixChap1}
\input{App1_ Chaps/Append_folder/AppendixChap1}
\end{appendices}

I used "input" to load the Appendix chapter into the main document but changing that to "include" did not make a difference.

Thanks in advance,

Hakarl

[Stefan Kottwitz]

I saw that command defined like this:

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

You can try adding this definition in your document preamble, and compile two times, to update the table of contents.

Stefan

[Hakarl]

Stefan,

Thanks for the suggestion. I will try it. By the way the segment I posted is in the Backmatter. Is that an issue?

Hakarl

[Stefan Kottwitz]

That's not an issue. But if you see any other issue, try posting specific code that allows us to reproduce it in order to fix it.

Stefan

[Hakarl]

Stefan,

Thanks again. I will give the old college try.

Hakarl