{glossaries} is about creating glossaries and similar lists. A popular package is `glossaries`.
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Glossaries: suppress pages when using glsaddall
I would like to generate an index of notation using the glossaries-package such that certain page numbers are suppressed.
It is easy to define some standard notation and include it in the index using ...
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Manually set first-use flag using glossaries
I am using glossaries to keep track of my acronyms and a few other lists. However, I am running into a situation where I want to use \acf to print the full acronym, and the description should not be ...
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Automated generation of equation key
I am looking for a way to automatically create the legend for an equation (let's say embedded in the align environment).
What I'm currently using is a semi automated to fully manual way. Let me ...
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Custom glossary environment improvement
This is a followup question about the code provided by Nicola Talbot in this question: Automated generation of equation key
TL;DR: Defines new environment alignglos which can be used to wrap ...
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Text width in 1st and 2nd glossary is different?
I am a latex beginner, so would appreciate your help.
My problem: in my thesis I have two glossaries: Glossary and Acronyms.
The Format of Glossary is ok, but in Acronyms - textwidth is too narrow.
In ...
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How to change the appearance of the display of the first use of an acronym? How to insert “short”?
How can I change the apperance of the display of the first use of an acronym?
I want to change
Compact Disc (CD)
to
Compact Disc (short CD)
I tried
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How to use 'makeglossaries'?
I try to make a glossary with the glossaries package. I understand that I have to run makeglossaries to display the glossary. (according to this link: "Processing the file will have to include a call ...
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Using Texmaker with glossaries on Windows
Is there a simple way of integrating glossaries package with Texmaker on Windows?
I was following a very nice tutorial to understand how glossaries package works, but got stuck when trying to make ...
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Changing the font size and position of glossaries title [duplicate]
I'm using the glossaries package to generate a list of acronyms. I've changed the title of the page to List of Abbreviations, but this is appearing at the top center of the page, and its a little too ...
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Adding a glossary with ShareLaTex
I'm trying to add a glossary to an article in ShareLaTeX but It seems the whole \makeglossariescommand doesn't work if you don't use the makeglossaries document_namewhen compiling (as it says
here).
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Description length limit with glossaries
Some of my glossarie entries have a rather long description.
After a certain number of carracters they stop being displayed by the
printglossaries command.
Here is an exemple producing this problem :
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Using glossary in abbreviation causes issue: its written bold
I'm currently working on a thesis and having trouble with my glossary in connection with abbreviations.
I define an abbreviation that way:
\acro{conMan}[CMS]{\gls{CMS}}
In my glossary list file i ...
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Alternative to glossaries?
Is there a nicer alternative to glossaries package? It's a pita to use. Documentation is lacking examples, some commands don't do anything (like \glssee), it is hard to customize (why can't I make my ...
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List of Acronyms is not displayed
\documentclass{report}
\usepackage[acronym]{glossaries}
\makeglossary
\newacronym{svm}{SVM}{Support Vector Machine}
\newacronym{wasn}{WASN}{Wireless Sensor Networks}
\begin{document}
\printglossaries
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Problems with glossaries in Texmaker?
I'm kind of new to LaTeX and I'm struggling a lot to make a glossary. I'm using Texmaker under Windows, but I'm not very good at programing. I'm using \usepackage[toc]{glossaries} because I read that ...
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Footnote inside description
I had a very very similar problem with footnote inside mbox.
My original problem started using the glossaries package, using a glossary entry inside the description environment, a minimal example is ...
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Glossaries, polyglossia, xindy, naiive and ï
I'm getting error:
ERROR: READ: comma is illegal outside of backquote
when executing: polyglossia together with \"{\i}
placed in the name field of newglossaryentry
Also, it seems to have something ...
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How to change the fontsize in the heading of the glossary
I set up a glossary using the following code:
\documentclass[12pt]{report}
\usepackage[nonumberlist]{glossaries}
\usepackage[printonlyused]{acronym}
\makeglossaries
\newacronym{cmp}{CMP}{Common Mid ...
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Compile sequence: citing in the glossary
I'm trying to add a reference to a source in my bibtex bibliography in one of my glossary entries. However, it remains a questionmark!
When I compile two times in a row, it works fine, though. My ...
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Problems with xindy and glossaries
I'm having a bit of a problem creating a glossary.
I'm working with a MacBook using Mountain Lion OS 10.8.3, I've installed MacTeX 2012 and details about xindy are:
xindy release: 2.4
xindy script ...
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Wrong Reference in glossary - difference shown pagenumber and reference location
As in this
previous Link Problem
I reproduced the error.
First, this is my code:
\documentclass{scrartcl}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[
bookmarks,
bookmarksnumbered,
...
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List of Acronyms: only first use in numberlist and table of content style dots
I would like to display the list of acronyms in the following way:
in the number list there should be only the page with the first use of the acronym
the number should be aligned on the right, with ...
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Glossaries with section as counter does not work in appendix [closed]
I would like to use the glossaries package with the option counter=section.
This works well as long as I don't use any glossary entries in the appendix.
It seems the section counter is reset by the ...
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Latex glossaries: Hyperref/Link only the first occurance of an entry in each section?
By default, the glossaries package creates a link to the glossary for each occurance of an entry (e.g. each time I use \gls{entry}). With the links visualized (e.g. using hyperref colorlinks). This ...
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Glossaries package and acronyms with an &
I'm using glossaries package and have one entry that has an & in between:
%\newacronym{CK}{CK}{Chidamber \& Kemerer}
\newglossaryentry{CK}{type =\acronymtype,
name={CK},
...
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caption interfering with glossaries first/subsequent use mechanism
This is a follow-up question on Glossaries in List of Figures overflow, where it was asked how the first usage scheme of the glossaries package can be used with a glossary term in a figure caption. I ...
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Glossaries in List of Figures overflow
Given a figure with a caption, in this caption a glossary term in used as in \gls{wysiwyg}
At the document beginning, after the contents, the \listoffigures command is given.
As the caption ...
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pdflatexmk compiles \glossaries fine but neglects \glsaddall
I'm using TeXShop and the pdflatexmk script. When I link at least one entry of the glossary with \gls{label} the glossary compiles fine and all works well (working code example).
However I want to use ...
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How do I sort two glossaries (list of acronyms and list of symbols) differently?
I use the glossaries package to create a list of acronyms as well as a list of symbols.
\usepackage[acronym,style=long]{glossaries}
For the list of symbols the standard-glossary is used.
Now I ...
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glossaries alternative text
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage{glossaries}
\newglossaryentry{solve}{name={solve},description={to find an answer}}
\makeglossary
\begin{document}
You can \gls{solve} an ...
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Display long form (first-use like) entries of non-acronym-type entries
I was searching for 2 hours straight now and I must say the package documentation is extensive but not very clear - frustrating. I'm looking for a way to manually display the first use form (long ...
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Custom glossary style: Make glossary as wide as \textwidth
WARNING: This is a follow-up question to Display long form (first-use like) entries of none acronyme type entries.
As mafp suggested in the other post I went ahead and defined my own glossary-styles ...
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Problem with umlauts in glossary
The following code does not produce umlauts as expected.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{glossaries}
\makeglossaries
\newglossaryentry{a}{%
...
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glossaries vs hyperref conflict [closed]
I'm writing my thesis and I'm having some trouble with the package glossaries and some strange conflict with hyperref package.
If I load hyperref before glossaries in order to have links I cannot ...
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Is there a limit to the number of entries makeindex or xindy can process?
I've been using the etex and glossaries packages, together with pdflatex, to build a document containing four main glossaries, each customised in a different way. So far the total number of ...
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footnote inside mbox
I know very similar questions have been asked, but I couldn't find a solution to my problem.
My original problem started using the glossaries package, using an acronym inside the framed environment, ...
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Two column glossary
I'm having a problem similar to this: Two-column longtable or tabular. I want the same result -- that is a two column glossary (ie a total of 4 columns) where a list of abbreviations and their ...
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Two “glossary” elements being generated on my first glossaries page [duplicate]
I'm successfully generating a glossary, but for whatever reason I'm getting a rogue "Glossary" element before my first glossary entry, but after my Glossary heading. Here's the relevant example code:
...
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Glossaries list - no separating lines
I am trying to produce a list of acronyms and definitions in which each entry is at some distance from the previous one. Distance of two lines worked out of the box and I am happy with it, but it is ...
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How to combine Acronym and Glossary
I'm using glossaries at LaTeX:
I have a Acronyms (eg. API) that should be explained in the Glossary. It should be linked to the Glossary at occurrence but should be written out at first occurrence.
...
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Glossaries: using name of (sub)sections instead of page numbers
How can I print the section instead the pagenumber in glossar/index like \nameref it does.
Would be nice to have something like:
\documentclass{report}
\usepackage[colorlinks]{hyperref}
...
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Showing line number in glossaries
In the glossary, I need to show the "page/line" of each occurrence of a term, e.g.:
Glossary
clamour
1) plainte, cri. 24/10, 40/5
2) requête. 50/24, 50/28
Would this be possible using ...
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How to use soul with glossaries to space-out acronyms?
I want to increase the spacing between capital letters of acronyms inside text. Acronyms are printed by \ac, \acs, etc. commands of the glossaries package. soul package provides a nice command \caps. ...
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Write glossary entries without abbreviation if they only appear once [duplicate]
I find the glossaries package very useful for defining acronyms and then have LaTeX worry about when to write out the full name and acronym (the first time it appears), and subsequently only the ...
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Specify Perl location for makeglossaries
I am using the glossaries package to typeset some glossaries, on a MikTeX+TexnicCenter (Windows) setup.
There are administrative restrictions on the machine which means that I cannot install Perl, ...
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Glossary and list of acronyms in the same page
Basically I have two lists (glossary and acronyms) that i want to merge into one section only, something like (List of terms AND acronyms)
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Glossary and list of figures have the same page number in the table of contents
In my table of contents the glossary and the list of figures have the same page number. However, these two areas are not on the same page. Can anyone help me to get the correct number of pages set?
...
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Glossary with Makeglos no numbered in 2 columns
I would like to know how to put my glossary in two columns and without page numbers and the acronym in bold letters like this
UAV : Unmanned Air Vehicle
This is my code
\usepackage{makeglos}
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Customising glossary group titles
I'm using the glossaries package to produce multiple glossaries in the same document and have found it convenient to define my own glossary style.
When makeindex is used the glossary is sub-divided ...
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List of abbreviations
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 ...
