LaTeX provides features for the automatic creation of tables of contents, lists of figures, tables, bibliographies, glossaries, and indexes. This chapter contains recipes for quickly starting and customizing such lists.
We will start with the table of contents. While it's extremely easy to create a table of contents by simply using the \tableofcontents command, the format is quite rigidly determined by the document class. We will look at ways of modifying it with ease. The same can be used for the lists of figures and the lists of tables, which can be generated using the commands \listoffigures or \listoftables, respectively.
For a scientific work, especially, a list of references is important. It's also called a bibliography. One of the recipes in this chapter will provide a quick start using the very modern biblatex package.
Another recipe will show you how to create a glossary, so you can explain scientific or technical vocabulary to the reader.
The final recipe demonstrates...