Put list of tables (lot) then list of figures (lof) in quarto book

[alberto-guzman]

I am editing my dissertation for submission to my graduate school. One issue I can't figure out is that they require the list of tables to come before the list of figures. Currently my pdf renders with the list of figures THEN the list of tables. Any way to flip the ordering?

Here are the contents of my _quart.yml file:

project:
  type: book
  execute-dir: project

execute: 
  echo: false
  warning: false
  message: false

book:
  title: "Diss Title"
  author: "Alberto Guzman-Alvarez"
  output-file: "alberto_guzmanalvarez_diss"
  chapters:
    - index.qmd
    - 01-intro.qmd
    - 02-propensity_over.qmd
    - 03-commonapp_over.qmd
    - simulation_code.qmd
    - references.qmd

bibliography: "https://api.citedrive.com/bib/a3b2d1f7-6632-4857-8038-c222a4053fa1/references.bib?x=eyJpZCI6ICJhM2IyZDFmNy02NjMyLTQ4NTctODAzOC1jMjIyYTQwNTNmYTEiLCAidXNlciI6ICIyMDQxIiwgInNpZ25hdHVyZSI6ICI4MDNmNDRkNGI0ZGFlNzlhMThhMDEwZjAwYTUxN2QzOTQ1YzUxYTc5Y2QxMzc5OGQ2OGJjOTIyZmEwOGFkODJiIn0=/bibliography.bib"
csl: apa.csl

format:
  pdf:
    documentclass: book
    classoption: ["oneside", "open=any", "listof=totoc"]
    margin-left: "1in"
    margin-right: "1in"
    margin-top: "1in"
    margin-bottom: "1in" 
    linestretch: 2
    template-partials: 
      - "tex/before-body.tex" 
      - "tex/_titlepage.tex" 
    include-in-header: 
      - text: | 
          \usepackage{indentfirst}
          \setlength{\parindent}{1cm}
          \usepackage{fvextra}
          \DefineVerbatimEnvironment{Highlighting}{Verbatim}{breaklines,commandchars=\\\{\}}
          \usepackage{setspace}
          \doublespacing
          \pagenumbering{gobble} 
          \usepackage{sectsty}
          \usepackage{titlesec}
          \titleformat{\chapter}[display]
          {\normalfont\bfseries\centering}{}{0pt}{\fontsize{12}{15}\selectfont}
          \titlespacing*{\chapter}{0pt}{0ex plus 1ex minus .2ex}{4.3ex plus .2ex}
          \titlespacing*{\section}{0pt}{5.5ex plus 1ex minus .2ex}{4.3ex plus .2ex}
          \titlespacing*{\subsection}{0pt}{5.5ex plus 1ex minus .2ex}{4.3ex plus .2ex}
          \sectionfont{\fontsize{12}{15}\selectfont\centering}
          \subsectionfont{\fontsize{12}{15}\selectfont\centering}
    
    include-before-body: 
      - file: "tex/comittee.tex"
      - file: "tex/copyright.tex"
      - file: "tex/abstract.tex"
    toc: true
    toc-depth: 3
    lot: true
    lof: true
    number-sections: TRUE
    

[alberto-guzman]

I have a workaround but still an having issues with quarto generating additional empty "Table of Content", "List of Figures", and "List of Table" pages in the rendered pdf.

This is my updated _quarto.yml

project:
  type: book
  execute-dir: project

execute: 
  echo: false
  warning: false
  message: false

book:
  title: "Diss Title"
  author: "Alberto Guzman-Alvarez"
  output-file: "alberto_guzmanalvarez_diss"
  chapters:
    - index.qmd
    - 01-intro.qmd
    - 02-propensity_over.qmd
    - 03-commonapp_over.qmd
    - simulation_code.qmd
    - references.qmd

bibliography: "https://api.citedrive.com/bib/a3b2d1f7-6632-4857-8038-c222a4053fa1/references.bib?x=eyJpZCI6ICJhM2IyZDFmNy02NjMyLTQ4NTctODAzOC1jMjIyYTQwNTNmYTEiLCAidXNlciI6ICIyMDQxIiwgInNpZ25hdHVyZSI6ICI4MDNmNDRkNGI0ZGFlNzlhMThhMDEwZjAwYTUxN2QzOTQ1YzUxYTc5Y2QxMzc5OGQ2OGJjOTIyZmEwOGFkODJiIn0=/bibliography.bib"
csl: apa.csl

format:
  pdf:
    documentclass: book
    classoption: ["oneside", "open=any"]
    margin-left: "1in"
    margin-right: "1in"
    margin-top: "1in"
    margin-bottom: "1in" 
    linestretch: 2
    template-partials: 
      - "tex/before-body.tex" 
      - "tex/_titlepage.tex" 
    include-in-header: 
      - text: | 
          \usepackage{indentfirst}
          \setlength{\parindent}{1cm}
          \usepackage{fvextra}
          \DefineVerbatimEnvironment{Highlighting}{Verbatim}{breaklines,commandchars=\\\{\}}
          \usepackage{setspace}
          \doublespacing
          \pagenumbering{gobble} 
          \usepackage{sectsty}
          \usepackage{titlesec}
          \titleformat{\chapter}[display]
          {\normalfont\bfseries\centering}{}{0pt}{\fontsize{12}{15}\selectfont}
          \titlespacing*{\chapter}{0pt}{0ex plus 1ex minus .2ex}{4.3ex plus .2ex}
          \titlespacing*{\section}{0pt}{5.5ex plus 1ex minus .2ex}{4.3ex plus .2ex}
          \titlespacing*{\subsection}{0pt}{5.5ex plus 1ex minus .2ex}{4.3ex plus .2ex}
          \sectionfont{\fontsize{12}{15}\selectfont\centering}
          \subsectionfont{\fontsize{12}{15}\selectfont\centering}
          
    toc: true
    toc-depth: 3
    lot: true
    lof: true
    number-sections: TRUE
    

and here is the new before-body.tex I created:

$if(has-frontmatter)$
  \begin{frontmatter}
  \begin{titlepage}
  $_titlepage.tex()$
  \end{titlepage}
  \end{frontmatter}
$else$
  \begin{titlepage}
  $_titlepage.tex()$
  \end{titlepage}
$endif$

% Committee page
\input{tex/comittee.tex}

% Copyright page
\input{tex/copyright.tex}

% Abstract page
\input{tex/abstract.tex}

% Order of TOC, LOT, and LOF
$if(toc)$
\tableofcontents
$endif$
$if(lot)$
\listoftables
$endif$
$if(lof)$
\listoffigures
$endif$

This solved the original ordering issue of lot and lof, but now I am getting extra pages like this:

[mcanouil]

Since you already are using template partial, you can simply change the order of few lines using the toc.tex partial, see https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/blob/main/src/resources/formats/pdf/pandoc/toc.tex (from https://quarto.org/docs/journals/templates.html#latex-partials).

[alberto-guzman]

Thank you that did the trick! Ended up feeding the toc.text partial with sections commented out

contents of toc.tex:

$if(toc)$
$if(toc-title)$
%\renewcommand*\contentsname{$toc-title$}
$endif$
$if(beamer)$
\begin{frame}[allowframebreaks]
$if(toc-title)$
  %\frametitle{$toc-title$}
$endif$
  %\tableofcontents[hideallsubsections]
\end{frame}
$else$
{
$if(colorlinks)$
\hypersetup{linkcolor=$if(toccolor)$$toccolor$$else$$endif$}
$endif$
%\setcounter{tocdepth}{$toc-depth$}
%\tableofcontents
}
$endif$
$endif$
$if(lof)$
%\listoffigures
$endif$
$if(lot)$
%\listoftables
$endif$