\
appendix
switches the document from generating sections
(in article class) or chapters (in report or
book classes) to producing appendixes. Section or chapter
numbering is restarted and the representation of the counter switches
to alphabetic. So:
\section{My inspiration} ... \section{Developing the inspiration} ... \appendix \section{How I became inspired} ...
would be typeset (in an article document) something like:
1 My inspiration ... 2 Developing the inspiration ... A How I became inspired ...
which is quite enough for many ordinary purposes. Note that, once
you’ve switched to typesetting appendixes, LaTeX provides you with
no way back — once you’ve had an appendix, you can no longer have an
“ordinary” \
section
or \
chapter
.
\usepackage{appendix} ... \appendix \appendixpage \addappheadtotoc
The \
appendixpage
command adds a separate title “Appendices”
above the first appendix, and \
addappheadtotoc
adds a similar
title to the table of contents. These simple modifications cover many
people’s needs about appendixes.
appendices
environment,
which provides for fancier use. The environment is best controlled by
package options; the above example would be achieved by
\usepackage[toc,page]{appendix} ... \begin{appendices} ... \end{appendices}
The great thing that the appendices
environment gives
you, is that once the environment ends, you can carry on with sections
or chapters as before — numbering isn’t affected by the intervening
appendixes.
subappendices
environment allows you to put separate appendixes for a particular
section, coded as \
subsection
s, or for a particular chapter, coded
as \
section
s. So one might write:
\usepackage{appendix} ... \section{My inspiration} ... \begin{subappendices} \subsection{How I became inspired} ... \end{subappendices} \section{Developing the inspiration} ...
Which will produce output something like:
1 My inspiration ... 1.A How I became inspired ... 2 Developing the inspiration ...
There are many other merry things one may do with the package; the user is referred to the package documentation for further details. The memoir class includes the facilities of the appendix package. The KOMA-script classes offer a
\
appendixprefix
command for manipulating the appearance of appendixes.
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