apphead appears in TOC after first appendix

Question

In my thesis, I do this:

\include{main/chapter1}
\include{main/chapter2}
\appendix
\noappendicestocpagenum
\addappheadtotoc
\include{main/appendixchapter1}

I should be getting the line "Appendices" (the apphead) before the first appendix in the TOC, but it comes out after it. How come?

Answer 1

I know this is a few months old, but i just ran into the same problem, and this is the leading thread on the problem as far as i can see.
The problem occurs when using \include after the \addappheadtotoc command, and is actually described in the manual for the appendix package in section 2.1 known problems.

A workaround is to have \addappheadtotoc in the beginning of the first included appendix. (or you can do as I, and include a seperate file containing only that command.)

Answer 2

The folowing MWE works well.

% ----------------------------------------------------------------
% Book Class (This is a LaTeX2e document)  ***********************
% ----------------------------------------------------------------
\documentclass[10pt]{book}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{appendix} % <-------------------Should be added to use \noappendicestocpagenum
%-----------------------------------
\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
%-----------------------------------
\chapter{First chapter}
\chapter{Second chapter}
%-----------------------------------
\appendix
\noappendicestocpagenum
\addappheadtotoc
%-----------------------------------
\chapter{First appendix}
\chapter{Second appendix}
%-----------------------------------
\end{document}
% ----------------------------------------------------------------

PS: May be you should add a complete MWE (instead of snippets) if it is still not working for you