<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Elaborating on David’s reply, inbetween the end of the last chapter and the beginning of the appendix is the right place to use the \backmatter command:<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">\chapter{last chap title}<br class="">zzzz</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">\backmatter<br class=""><br class="">\appendix<br class="">\chapter{first appendix title}<br class="">zzzz<br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This post has extensive details on the topic: <<a href="http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/20538/what-is-the-right-order-when-using-frontmatter-tableofcontents-mainmatter" class="">http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/20538/what-is-the-right-order-when-using-frontmatter-tableofcontents-mainmatter</a>></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best,</div><div class="">Enrico</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 2 Mar 2017, at 21:41, David Carlisle <<a href="mailto:d.p.carlisle@gmail.com" class="">d.p.carlisle@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">On 2 March 2017 at 17:34, Inge Svein Helland <<a href="mailto:ingeh@math.uio.no" class="">ingeh@math.uio.no</a>> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">I am writing a book, and I'm using the \chapter command. My question is: How<br class="">do I end the last chapter, before the Appendix?<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Thank you for any help.<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Inge Helland<br class=""><br class=""></blockquote><br class="">not all classes do it the same way but in book you can just use<br class=""><br class="">\chapter{last chap title}<br class="">zzzz<br class=""><br class="">\appendix<br class="">\chapter{first appendix title}<br class="">zzzz<br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">TeX FAQ: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq" class="">http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq</a><br class="">Mailing list archives: <a href="http://tug.org/pipermail/texhax/" class="">http://tug.org/pipermail/texhax/</a><br class="">More links: <a href="http://tug.org/begin.html" class="">http://tug.org/begin.html</a><br class=""><br class="">Automated subscription management: <a href="http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/texhax" class="">http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/texhax</a><br class="">Human mailing list managers: <a href="mailto:postmaster@tug.org" class="">postmaster@tug.org</a><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>