[texhax] \addcontentsline -- line added to TOC appears in wrong place -- ANSWER

[Niall Mansfield]

The answer is:
(a) The description below isn't accurate -- the \chapter*'s
     are in fact \include'd in the main file.
(b) The LaTeX Companion explicitly describes the problem of
     \addtocontents when used at the same level as \include,
     on p49 (Second Ed.).  It says, in effect, "don't do it".
(c) \input instead of \include does seem to work OK, and lets
     us keep the same file organization.

	Niall


   > - Using book.cls.
   > - Redefined \appendix, to add an "Appendixes" heading line to
   >    the TOC, as follows:
   >
   > \renewcommand\appendix{
   >    \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Appendixes}	%% this is the new line
   >    \par
   >    \setcounter{chapter}{0}%
   >    \setcounter{section}{0}%
   >    \gdef\@chapapp{\appendixname}%
   >    \gdef\thechapter{\@Alph\c at chapter}}
   >
   > When we run this on a .tex file of the form:
   >
   > 	\chapter{Last chap}
   > 	...
   > 	\appendix
   > 	\chapter*{APX-1}
   > 	...
   > 	\chapter*{APX-2}
   > 	...
   >
   > we get the "Appendixes" line in the wrong place.
   > The .toc file shows this:
   >
   > \contentsline {chapter}{\numberline {A}APX-1}{53}
   > \contentsline {chapter}{Appendixes}{53}
   > \contentsline {chapter}{\numberline {B}APX-2}{57}
   >
   > What's happening?