On 2012-05-29, Steve Litt wrote: > On Tue, 29 May 2012 00:03:08 +0000 (UTC), ddiedrichs said:
>> I cannot change the default strings 'Contents', 'List of Figures', >> etc. that are generated as titles of these sections. I have tried >> putting in the preamble commands of the type: >> \renewcommand{\contentsname}{Table of Contents} >> But nothing works. I am typing in English without the babel package. Are you sure you do not use the babel packge? LyX uses it by default. What does the View>Source window show when you tick the "show complete source" box? (You can also export your example to LaTeX and play with it.) I am asking, because the minimal LaTeX example \documentclass[english]{article} % \usepackage{babel} \renewcommand{\contentsname}{Table of Contents} \begin{document} \tableofcontents \section{test the best} \end{document} works as you expect (showing "Table of Contents" as contents heading in the output). > I reproduced your symptom in an article based document, putting > \renewcommand{\contentsname}{Table of Contents} in the document > preamble, as you would expect it should be. Like you, my document > continued to print the table of contents title as "Contents". So then I > exported to LaTeX, fooled around with it, and discovered it works only > if \renewcommand{\contentsname}{Table of Contents} is in the document > itself, not the document header. The usual trick in these cases is \AtBeginDocument. Indeed, replacing renaming \renewcommand{\contentsname}{Table of Contents} with: \AtBeginDocument{\renewcommand{\contentsname}{Table of Contents}} works also with babel as expected. > So I went back into LyX, removed \renewcommand{\contentsname}{Table of > Contents} from the document preamble, and put it in an ERT before the > Table of Contents, and it did the right thing. No need for ERT with \AtBeginDocument. Günter