List of abbreviations

Question

Is there a way to get an alphabetical list of abbreviations automatically? At the moment I have:

\begin{longtable}{ll}

APC & antigeen-presenterende cel \\

\end{longtable}

I use longtable because my table is very long.

Answer 1

As egreg said, look at the nomencl and glossaries packages.

Quick and dirty for nomencl:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[refpage]{nomencl}

\makenomenclature

\begin{document}
Here is some text, where we use APC.\nomenclature{APC}{antigeen-presenterende cel}

\printnomenclature
\end{document}

Run

pdflatex; makeindex -s nomencl.ist -t liselot.nlg -o liselot.nls liselot.nlo; pdflatex 

on it to obtain

Quick and dirty for glossaries:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{glossaries}

\makeglossaries

\newglossaryentry{apc}{%
name={APC},%
description={antigeen-presenterende cel}%
}

\begin{document}
Here is some text, where we use \gls{apc}.

\printglossary[style=long]
\end{document}

Run

pdflatex; makeindex -s liselot2.ist -t liselot2.glg -o liselot2.gls liselot2.glo; pdflatex

on it to obtain