General ⇒ Appendix Problems

[errington]

I am fairly new to LaTeX so could you please reply assuming i don't know very much. i have written a paper and need to include an appendix.
im using the report documentclass.
my attempts to use \appendix have failed miserably - it doesn't print "appendix a : ..." as a title and i can't get it to appear in the table of contents and then the equations i post in it dont get numbered as A.1, A.2 etc

having spent the last 3 days sinking further and further into the slough of despond i decided to seek some guidance. the best i've managed so far is:

\titleformat{\chapter}[display]{\normalfont\huge\bfseries}{}{20pt}{\large}
\chapter*{Appendix A: Deriving the Einstein Equations for Polarised Gowdy Spacetimes}\label{appendix}
\addtocontents{toc}{\protect\pagebreak\contentsline{chapter}{Appendix A: Deriving the Einstein Equations for Polarised Gowdy Spacetimes}{\pageref{appendix}}}
\chaptermark{Appendix}
\markboth{Appendix}{Appendix}

but as this is a chapter, the numbering of equations doesn't work correctly i.e. i get 6.1, 6.2 etc instead of A.1, A.2 etc (chapter 6 was my previous chapter before the dreaded appendix)

thanks for any help.

[localghost]

Try the following example.

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\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,english]{report}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage{appendix}
\usepackage{blindtext}

\pagestyle{headings}

\begin{document}
  \tableofcontents

  \blinddocument
  \begin{equation}
    E=mc^2
  \end{equation}
  \newpage

  \appendix
  \addappheadtotoc
  \blinddocument
  \begin{equation}
    E=mc^2
  \end{equation}
\end{document}

Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten¹