Changing \contentsname in scrartcl

Question

When using the article document class, I can customise the title of the table of contents like so:

\documentclass{article}
\renewcommand{\contentsname}{Whatever}
\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
\section{Section}
\subsection{Subsection}
\end{document}

As expected, the title of the table of contents is now "Whatever". However, if I change the first line to use the scrartcl document class

\documentclass{scrartcl}

then I'm back to the default "Contents" as the title. I've looked through the KOMA-Script user guide, and it seems like this should still work. I read section 12.4, "Defining Language-Dependent Terms", but a) I didn't understand how to use it, and b) I'm not trying to do anything language-dependent.

Is there a different/better way to do this in document classes that use KOMA-Script?

I'm using xelatex, if it matters.

According to https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/539972/how-to-change-the-title-of-the-toc-in-koma-scrbook you should move \renewcommand{\contentsname}{Whatever} below \begin{document}. — Marijn, Sep 09 '22 at 20:25
It's scrartcl, by the way. You should do \AtBeginDocument{\renewcommand{\contentsname}{Whatever}} — egreg, Sep 09 '22 at 21:24

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 10 '22 at 11:54

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You can use the KOMA commands like this:

\documentclass{scrartcl}
\defcaptionname{\languagename}{\contentsname}{Whatever}
\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
\section{Section}
\subsection{Subsection}
\end{document}

answered Sep 10 '22 at 11:54

Ulrike Fischer

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Changing \contentsname in scrartcl

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