[OS X TeX] change header tableofcontents

[Gary L. Gray]

On Nov 30, 2005, at 10:16 AM, George Gratzer wrote:

> There is a typo, it should be
>
> \renewcommand{\contentsname}{Your Name for Contents Here}
>
> By the way, all the names that can be changed are listed on p. 324  
> of my book.
>
> GG

If you are referring to the * in the \renewcommand, then I refer  
everyone to Kopka and Daly, which states:

"It is recommended that one should almost always take the *-version
of these defining commands, unless there is some very good reason to
expect that the possible arguments may be ‘long’, that is, contain new
paragraphs. Long arguments should be the exception, not the rule."

This is why I used the starred version of the \renewcommand. Of  
course, the unstarred version also works and I am not sure why the  
starred version is recommended -- I just like to follow the  
guidelines put down by the experts. :-) I am sure one of the experts  
on this list will be able to tell us all why the starred version is  
better in most cases (including this one).

-- Gary



> On Nov 30, 2005, at 9:00 AM, Michael Sciascia wrote:
>
>> on 30/11/05 00:46 Gary L. Gray wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Nov 30, 2005, at 12:40 AM, gertlist at mac.com wrote:
>>>
>>>> hi all,
>>>> the tableofcontents that is generated in my document has the header
>>>> "Contents". Is there a way to change this word "Contents" in the
>>>> header?
>>>
>>> I think the following should do it:
>>>
>>> \renewcommand*{\contentsname}{Your Name Here}
>>
>> I've been wondering about this since the first day of LaTex but never
>> really bothered to look for a solution since I imagined I needed some
>> sort of localization packages...
>> Great tip and a very easy way to change the name of chapters,  
>> index as
>> well :-)
>> This list is really invaluable!
>>
>> Ciao,
>> Michael
>> -- 
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