How do I add text before the actual list of figures?

Question

Currently I have:

\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Abbildungsverzeichnis}

\listoffigures

\noindent
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\newpage

And that yields, as expected, the following result:

How do I move the text before the actual list, but after the title of \listoffigures, without it being on it's own page and the list of figures being added to the next page?

Answer 1

You can use \addtocontents. This also allows to get a more precise placement of the toc entry.

\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{hyperref}

\begin{document}

\tableofcontents

\listoffigures

\addtocontents{lof}{%
  \protect\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{\listfigurename}%
  \noindent This is some text I want to have between the
  title and the actual entries\par\bigskip
}

\chapter{Test}

\begin{figure}
\caption{This is for the first entry}
\end{figure}

\end{document}