LaTeX Cookbook

Chapter 7. Contents, Indexes, and Bibliographies

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

• Tuning the table of contents, lists of figures, and tables
• Creating a bibliography
• Adding a glossary
• Creating a list of acronyms
• Generating an index

Introduction

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 ...