Producing Contents, Indexes, and Bibliographies
LaTeX provides features for automatically creating tables of contents, lists of figures and tables, bibliographies, glossaries, and indexes. This chapter equips you with recipes for quickly starting and customizing such lists.
In this chapter, we will deal with the following:
- Tuning tables of contents and lists of figures and tables
- Creating a bibliography
- Adding a glossary
- Making a list of acronyms
- Generating an index
We will start with the table of contents. While it’s straightforward to create one by simply using the \tableofcontents command, the format is pretty rigidly determined by the document class. We will see ways to modify it easily. The same can be used for the list of figures and the list of tables, which can be generated utilizing the \listoffigures or \listoftables commands, respectively.
Especially for scientific work, a list of references is essential. It’s also called...