Creating lists

Packages useful for creation and customization of table of contents, lists of figures, bibliographies etc.

Table of contents, list of figures, list of tables:

• tocloft – comfortable design of those lists, allowing definition of further lists
• titletoc – customization of toc entries, features for toc, lot, lof additionally to titlesec
• minitoc – small tocs for chapters, parts or sections
• tocbibind – automatical insertion of bibliography, index etc. into the toc, not necessary with KOMA classes

Index:

• makeidx – standard LaTeX package for creation of indexes
• index – enhanced indexes, multiple indexes and more improvements

External programs:

• makeidx – general index generator, flexible input and output, sorting
• xindy – alternative index program, internationalization, modular configuration, markup customization, user defined references and more

Glossaries, nomenclature, lists of acronyms:

• glossaries – glossary, supporting multiple glossaries, lists of acronyms, superseding the glossary package
• nomencl – lists of symbols, nomenclatur
• acronym – comfortable handling of acronyms
• glosstex – provides features like acronym and nomencl and more

Bibliographies:

• BibTeX – powerful program for generation of bibliographies
• tamethebeast – manual for bibliographies and BibTeX
• cite – improved citation
• natbib – author/year citations
• din1505 – styles for german texts

Parts of this lists were translated and used here for the goLaTeX wiki.