Cfrgtkky

I'm writing a thesis in which there is an appendix. It's referenced in the TOC of appendixes. However, there is a requirement as to :

• have the appendix name in Uppercase where the appendix actually is


• and in the Appendix TOC, it should appear in lowercase

I declare the appendix with :

Annexe{Échantillons Utilisés}

Which makes it ok for the lowercase req. in TOC, but doesn't make it appear in Uppercase at the appendix title.

Here is the template to use.
Additionally, here is the main page on which you can retrieve the template in case of a broken link.

I was thinking of looking into the .sty file to MakeUpperCase the "appendix head" but I have no clue where to write that down. Is it a viable solution? Where should I input that (or a more interesting solution if anyone knows one)?

Thanks!

Edit : here is my attempt at a minimal (working) example in an Overleaf playground, so we can see and play around with the .sty file provided. There is also a folder with the whole templates files if needed.

My MWE is full of bugs (sigh), but we can see that the TOC of appendix and the appendix head share the same formatting (uppercase/lowercase).

Welcome to TeX.SX! A bit more code would be great, however, if your issue is solely regarding the appendix name being non-capitalised, just declare it as a supressed section in case your document is an article or a chapter in case you chose report format like: chapter*{Appendix}. Subsequently, re-define the name using addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{appendix}
Here a schematic exert from my own thesis layout:

documentclass[12pt]{report}

begin{document}

  chapter*{Abstract}

  newpage

  tableofcontents

  newpage

  chapter{Chapter 1}

  newpage

  chapter*{Appendix}                        %Suppress the capitalised name  

  addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{appendix}   %Manually add the non-capitalised one

  section{Risk Assessment}

  section{Proofs}

end{document}

Your appendix will come out like this in your TOC:

I had a similar problem, you could try with something like this: the first line adds the title (so in your case it should be uppercase) and the second adds it to the TOC (so you type it lowercase).

chapter*{Your Uppercase Title}

addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{your lowercase title}

Edit: remember to add appendix before you start appendixes to have them numbered "A.", "B." etc. instead of continuing the numbering from the previous chapters. So the complete code above would be:

appendix

chapter*{Your Uppercase Title}

addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{your lowercase title}

Thanks for the answers! They indeed managed to solve the problem, but partially. It eventually interacted with all the rules included in the .sty file of the template.

So to summarize the goto answer is :

% eventually appendix here 

chapter*{THE CHAPTER}

addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{The chapter}

But it may conflict with the commands defined in the .sty of a template someone makes use of: like in my case Annexe{The chapter} has a defined style/spacing/etc. (However the answers helped me trace the whole process in the .sty so many thanks!)

So you need to either grab in the .sty the style to apply and do that to the suggested answer, or find where and how to resolve that issue by hacking on the Annexe .sty directly.

Here is a recap of the process to hopefully help others people diagnose the school template ! :)

First off, the newcommandannexe defined by the school: here look for your interpretation of Annexe (if it's Appendix search for newcommandappendix).

In my case it calls @annexe at some point in that command. @annexe is a function that takes as input my "The chapter". Here it is in full :

def@annexe[#1]#2{ifnum c@secnumdepth >m@ne

                       if@mainmatter

                         refstepcounter{chapter}%

                         typeout{@chapappspacethechapter.}%

                         if@english

                           addcontentsline{app}{annexe}%

                               {protectnumberline{Appendixnobreakspacethechapter}#1}%

                         else

                             addcontentsline{app}{annexe}%

                               {protectnumberline{Annexenobreakspacethechapter}#1}%

                         fi  

                       else

                         addcontentsline{app}{annexe}{#1}%

                       fi

                    else

                      addcontentsline{app}{annexe}{#1}%

                    fi

                    chaptermark{#1}%

                    if@twocolumn

                      @topnewpage[@makeappendixhead{#2}]%

                    else

                      @makeappendixhead{#2}%

                      @afterheading

                    fi}

As we see, it's a mess and it explains why the chapter*{} solution may not have worked as intended. Here we can see the addcontentsline{} command as well. The key to the issue is the @makeappendixhead{#2}} command used, here with the desired MakeUppercase{} command :

def@makeappendixhead#1{%

  {parindent z@ raggedright normalfont

    centering

    ifnum c@secnumdepth >m@ne

      if@mainmatter

        if@english

            normalsizebfseries APPENDIXspacethechapter

        else       

            normalsizebfseries ANNEXEspacethechapter

        fi

        %parnobreak

        %vskip 20p@

        spacespacespacespace

      fi

    fi

    interlinepenalty@M

    normalsize bfseries {MakeUppercase{#1}}parnobreak 

    vskip 40p@

  }}

And voilà ! :)

Notice that I don't understand fully how to use the makeuppercase in that context (the double {{}} seems fishy to me) but with a few trial and error it eventually worked !