Having a "\part" without roman numeral in front in the ToC

Question

I have a document in the book format. It is subdivided into different parts, which appear in the table of contents as "I. part 1", "II. part 1" and so on. At some point, I have the appendices, and I would like it to appear in the table of contents just as "Appendices", without the roman numeral. I tried using \part*{Appendices}, but if I do that the entry completely disappear from the table of contents. I guess I could just force the entry in the table of contents (as explained here), but I was wondering if there is a more elegant way to do it. Any ideas or advice?

Here is a minimal working example:

\documentclass{book}

\begin{document}

    \setcounter{tocdepth}{2}
    \tableofcontents

    \part{Body}

    Text

    \part*{Appendices}

    Text

\end{document}

\appendixpage and \addappheadtotoc from the appendix package both att "Appendices" to the TOC at a part level. — John Kormylo, Jan 05 '18 at 16:05

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 05 '18 at 19:15

Without any additional packages you can use \addcontentsline for that. Just make sure it is used on the correct page (\cleardoublepage).

\documentclass{book}

\begin{document}

    \setcounter{tocdepth}{2}
    \tableofcontents

    \part{Body}

    Text

    \cleardoublepage
    \addcontentsline{toc}{part}{Appendices}%
    \part*{Appendices}

    Text

\end{document}

If you're using KOMA-script the solution would be way more elegant: KOMA defines a command \addpart for exactly that purpose:

\documentclass{scrbook}

\begin{document}

    \setcounter{tocdepth}{2}
    \tableofcontents

    \part{Body}

    Text

    \addpart{Appendices}

    Text

\end{document}

Having a "\part" without roman numeral in front in the ToC

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