How to make 'appendix' appear in toc in Latex?

Question

How to make word 'appendix' appear in the table of contents? Right now toc looks like this:

1 ......  
2 ......  
.  
.  
A .....  
B ..... 

I would like it to be:

1 ......  
2 ......  
.  
.  
Appendix A .....  
Appendix B ..... 

My latex source file structure is like this:

\begin{document}  
\tableofcontents  
\include{...}  
\include{...}  
\appendix  
\include{...}  
\include{...}  
\end{document}  

Solution 1

This is probably most easily achieved by using the appendix package, or the memoir class.

If you don't want to use a prepackaged solution, you'll have to hack the sectioning commands. When I needed to do this for my dissertation, I cloned the report class, and edited until I made the margins lady happy. What you're looking for is the definition of the \addcontentsline macro.

Solution 2

There's a couple of ways to solve this problem; unfortunately, I've only got a hack for you at this stage. One problem is that if we redefine the section number "A" to include the word "Appendix", it messes up the formatting of the table of contents. So instead, I've just defined a new sectioning command that prints the section without a number and inserts "Appendix X" manually.

Kind of ugly, but at least it works without having to change any markup :)

\documentclass{article}

\makeatletter
\newcommand\appendix@section[1]{%
  \refstepcounter{section}%
  \orig@section*{Appendix \@Alph\c@section: #1}%
  \addcontentsline{toc}{section}{Appendix \@Alph\c@section: #1}%
}
\let\orig@section\section
\g@addto@macro\appendix{\let\section\appendix@section}
\makeatother

\begin{document}

\tableofcontents

\section{goo}
\label{a} 
This is sec~\ref{a}

\section{har}
\label{b}
This is sec~\ref{b}

\appendix
\section{ji}
\label{c} 
This is app~\ref{c}
\subsection{me}
does this look right?

\end{document}

Solution 3

For my thesis, I did the following:

\appendix
\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{Appendix~\ref{app:scripts}: Training Scripts}
\section*{Sample Training Scripts}
\label{app:scripts}
Blah blah appendix content blah blah blah.

Explanation: I manually added a line to the TOC so I would have "Appendix X:..." show up in my TOC. Then I excluded the actual section command from the TOC by using an asterisk.

Solution 4

The appendix package is really good and simple solution. My answer can be helpful for who wants to change chapters numbering style, for example, with using cyrillic alphabet or roman digits. The appendices numbering style is hardcoded in the \@resets@pp command (I looked in sources here http://hal.in2p3.fr/docs/00/31/90/21/TEX/appendix.sty). I solved it by simple redefining this command to my own. Just add this code into your preamble:

\makeatletter

    \renewcommand{\@resets@pp}{\par
        \@ppsavesec
        \stepcounter{@pps}
        \setcounter{section}{0}

        \if@chapter@pp
            \setcounter{chapter}{0}
            \renewcommand\@chapapp{\appendixname}
            \gdef\thechapter{\Asbuk{chapter}} % changed
        \else
            \setcounter{subsection}{0}
            \gdef\thechapter{\Asbuk{section}} % changed
        \fi

        \if@pphyper
            \if@chapter@pp
                \renewcommand{\theHchapter}{\theH@pps.\Asbuk{chapter}} % changed
            \else
                \renewcommand{\theHsection}{\theH@pps.\Asbuk{section}} % changed
            \fi

            \def\Hy@chapapp{\appendixname}%
        \fi
    \restoreapp
}

\makeatother

As a result,

Appendix A
Appendix B
Appendix C
...

will change to

Appendix A
Appendix Б
Appendix В
... etc

I'm not a latex expert, and I can't guarantee this code won't break something else.

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Comments

[mlt]

With appendix package, is there a way either not to use [page] option for appendices environment, or don't waste an entire page for just "Appendices" title? The problem is that when I skip [page] (or \appendixpage), I have TOC messed up, i.e. "Appendices" comes after "Appendix A". I guess this is relevant: stackoverflow.com/questions/2661774/…

[dmckee --- ex-moderator kitten]

@mlt It's been so long that I can't recall.

[Adobe]

How do I use that hack with \asbuk using fontspec? I need russian appendix numberings.

[Stanislav Mamontov]

Adobe, I can't paste code here. I've posted my solution in the separate answer. Hope this will help you.

[Ufos]

Will, this works like magic! However, I get a strange side effect: the references (if you add them) are transformed into a new section Appndix B*. Any idea how to get rid of it?

[Miguel]

Just replace all section with chapter if your appendix is by chapters