Tricky appendices: Issues with header or ToC. Ranking the appendices as subsections

Question

I am trying to obtain a pretty appendix and ToC, however I am experiencing a number of issues and it seems that I have to choose:

If I use the traditional code:

  \documentclass{article}
  \usepackage{booktabs,amsmath,caption,}
  \begin{document}

\appendices
\appendixpage
\addappheadtotoc

      \section{Abbreviations and symbols}
\end{document}

I obtain an table of contents where the appendix A, B and so on, are ranked as a section: If I call appendix A for \subsection{Abbreviations and symbols} I obtain the right "rank", however, instead of being named A and B, it is now called .1 and .2 etc...

As an alternative I have used this other code, however although I obtain a nice looking TOC, my headers is wrongfully set as the section before the Appendix (which is because of my "newcommand" I believe)...

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{booktabs,amsmath,caption}
\begin{document}
  \appendix
\section*{Appendix}
\renewcommand{\thesubsection}{\Alph{subsection}}%consider {Appendix \Alph..}
\addappheadtotoc
\subsection{Abbreviations and symbols}
\end{document}

This last code is satisfactory when looking in ToC, but not when you look at the header...

Any one got a solution?

Link to similar problem (which is when writing report): Appendices' sections at subsection level in TOC

Thanks!

Answer 1

I suggest you use the first solution and just correct the numbering of the appendix subsections in the way you do in the second version. This results in empty descriptions in the headings in the appendix; it is not clear to me whether that is what you want or not, but it is better than a wrong heading.

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{booktabs,amsmath,caption,appendix}

\usepackage{lipsum} %For filler text

\begin{document}

\pagestyle{headings}

\tableofcontents

\section{Test}
\subsection{Testing}
\lipsum[1-20]

\appendices
\appendixpage
\addappheadtotoc
\renewcommand{\thesubsection}{\Alph{subsection}}

\subsection{Abbreviations and symbols}
\lipsum[1-20]

\end{document}