{glossaries} is about creating glossaries and similar lists. A popular package is `glossaries`.
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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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How to make Latexmk use makeglossaries?
Is there a way to make Latexmk invoke makeglossaries (part of the glossaries package)?
Specifically I want to use latexmk to compile a LaTeX document that uses the glossaries package to produce a ...
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Which tool to use: an index or a glossary?
I have this situation:
My book needs an alphabetical index, used for finding on which page an item appeared.
My book needs a glossary, used for looking up the definition of the item.
Every indexed ...
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List of mathematical notation / abbreviations
In my article, I would like to create a section "Mathematical Notation" that lists all the arcane mathematical symbols I'm using.
This is similar to an index or a list of figures. An example of what ...
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Problem with “equal” sign and glossary entry definition
I am using glossaries package and I encountered a problem in the symbol field. When I define it as $m=1$ I get the following error message:
! Missing $ inserted.
<inserted text>
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Ignoring an acronym that is only used once
I am using the glossaries package only for its acronym capabilities, and I have one or two that are only used once in the document. For those acronyms, is there a way to only display the full text?
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Farsi alphabet order for glossary
I am using glossaries with makeidx in a Farsi document with xepersian. Currently it sorts the output using Arabic alphabet order and places words starting with گ, چ, پ and ژ at the end of list. How ...
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Use a quality glossary and acronym list in Lyx
The question How to combine Acronym and Glossary shows us how to make a great glossaries and acronym lists. I would like to use a quality glossary and acronym list in Lyx.
This may be too large a ...
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Create a register of persons with references
To
Create a register of persons with biblatex seems to be much more complicate then i expected.
How can i create nice a register of persons semiautomatic with \ref?
Lets assume i have 20 persons ...
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building a dictionary
sometimes when I am not sure about a term, I would like to write it somewhere with the subsequent definition to be able to re-read it from time to time and then remember it forever. I think I am going ...
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Customizing the first use of acronyms generated by glossaries
I manage my acronyms using the glossaries package. My minimal example is as follows:
\documentclass[ngerman]{scrartcl}
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\usepackage[acronym,shortcuts]{glossaries}
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How to use Rubber With Makeglossaries?
Is there a way to use rubber with makeglossaries?
I found a solution for the simple case.
You have to add the rubber directive to the latex document, in that case myDoc.tex.
% rubber: onchange ...
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Using the glossaries package for English acronyms in German documents
This is a repost of the original message I posted to comp.text.tex in August, which is still unanswered there. I'm sorry for reposting, but I want to spread this to a wider readership.
I found couple ...
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A tool for creating a dictionary with right-to-left script
I'm trying to typeset a dictionnary, using Arabic script. I would like to create a list of words in three columns, with Arabic word in right column aligned to the right, its Polish translation aligned ...
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How could glossaries' numberlabel use the manually defined number of Sections(or other Sectional Units)?
I am using 'glossaries' to make index after my book, I set the numberlist to section, so the number of the section will in the numberlabel. eg:
INDEX
Unix, a ...
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Glossary per chapter or section
I'm looking for a way of creating glossaries, with the help of glossaries package, per chapter or section.
In a particular glossary for section should be only the terms used in this section. If term ...
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Group glossaries by first letter
I am using glossaries with xindy. It groups entries by first letter and puts a vertical space between groups. How can I change the style of output to show the starting letter for each group at the ...
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Automating error message references
I'm writing a book which will include error messages and codes from a strange computer system. What I need to do is this:
Maintain a list of error message codes:
ABC0000T
For each code, have a ...
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How to makeglossaries with TeXworks?
I am using TeXworks to edit my LaTeX files. I currently use the pdfLatex+MakeIndex+BibTeX which calls the texify (it is the standard configuration). How to configure this option to call the ...
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How to create an equation library, to be called like bibtex?
I am newby in LateX, but I want to create an stand alone document to be used as a equation library where I can select my equations by calling them by name, and finally produce a list of equations used ...
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Cannot get small caps acronyms to work using glossaries package
I've managed to get glossaries to set the acronyms in the body in small caps in the way I want, but in the list of acronyms they insist on coming out in lower-case.
Can anyone (a) tell me what I've ...
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Creating a standalone glossary
As a followup to this question, I would like to ask how can I use the glossaries package just for the creation of a glossary. I do not want it to be part of a document rather a standalone document ...
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TeX capacity exceeded with glossary package
My document contains many thousands of glossary items. When compiling with XeLaTeX, about 1/8 of the way through the document, it reports:
! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [main memory size=3000000].
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What causes this strange interaction between glossaries and amsmath?
MWE: greatly trimmed from a large document; XeLaTeX; full TeXLive2012 completely up-to-date:
\documentclass{memoir}
\usepackage{fixltx2e}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{mathspec}
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Glossary link's color
How can I change the color of glossary links when using glossaries along with hyperref? I just want to change glossary link colors not all links.
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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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How to get a description from glossary entry?
I define my entry with:
\newglossaryentry{foo}{name={foo}, description={foo description}}
I can refer to it in a text with \Gls{foo} which puts a href link to Glossary.
Is is possible to get a raw ...
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Can my custom dependency for latexmk be improved?
In my answer to this question on how to make latexmk use makeglossaries for generating glossaries, I propose the following custom dependency:
add_cus_dep('glo', 'gls', 0, 'run_makeglossaries');
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glossaries : accent commands in 'see' references
Using the glossaries package, referencing another entry in \newglossaryentry with the see=label key, the following problem occurs if the name=... key of the referenced label has accent commands:
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Problem with sorting of umlaute in a glossary (pkg glossaries)
I'm currently facing a problem concerning sorting of glossaries.
I'm writing my thesis in german, so I also have some umlaute like "ä","ö" and "ü" in my acronyms. For example there is an acronym ...
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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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How to sort a glossary by order of appearance?
In the glossaries package, how can I make the glossary print the entries by order of appearance?
Some context: I'm using the glossaries package to generate a symbol index, and I'm interested to see ...
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Using tikzpictures as symbols in glossaries
In a text, I'm using a tikzpicture as a math symbol.
I'd like to reference this symbol in a glossary. It seems to me that makeindex doesn't know how to draw the picture. Here's an example.
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Distinct formatted page numbers with glossaries and Xindy
This is somewhat related to this question, but using Xindy as a backend, not makeindex.
I am attempting to create an index using glossaries, and in this index some page numbers have a special ...
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Acronyms without double dots using glossaries
I want to typeset my acronyms with abbreviating dots with, for
instance, P.C.A. standing for principal component analysis and use
macros for them.
This question
provides a trick to avoid double dots ...
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What should I build my new nomenclature package on top of?
This question led to a new package:
concepts
This is a major edit. In my previous attempt I overgeneralized, which obfuscated my real question.
I'd like to write a new package which I want ...
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Package and/or macro for producing a bi-lingual dictionary/glossary?
A use case is simple, say you write a computer science text book for pirates. Then, each time you mention a term, you may need to mention its English equivalent. So, instead of writing,
Ye first ...
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Disable smallcaps within \textsc?
How can I disable smallcaps within \textsc{}?
I would like to be able to disable/toggle smallcaps on a local level so that something like \textsc{o\textrm{open}mp} looks like ...
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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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Page number of glossary while using hyperref
I want to reference the glossary in the text. The solution given to this question on this website works for me. But adding \usepackage{hyperref} before \usepackage{glossaries} makes it not work ...
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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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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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How to highlight important pages in glossaries page number list
In some books, the keywords page not only has a list of pages the keyword was referenced, it also bold or emphasize page numbers where the keyword was defined or explained. How do I do that with ...
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glossaries: including an entry without page location
In the glossaries package, \glssee{label}{aaa,bbb,ccc,ddd} will cross-reference entries, but it doesn't include the referenced entry if it is not otherwise included in the glossary. (e.g. there will ...
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Compile LaTeX with BibTeX and glossaries
i need a little of help here. Till now wat I now is that to compile a latex into a pdf with bibtex references i need to execute the next sequence:
1. pdflatex document.tex
2. bibtex document.tex
3. ...
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One way links to glossaries
Is there any way to have hyperlinks to the glossaries/acronyms (using glossaries package) in only one direction? What I want is a link to the page where an acronym is used, in the list of acronyms. ...
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How do I create multiple glossary entries for the same definition?
When I have many glossary words that describe the same, how do I neatly put these into the glossary?
Ideally, something like:
\newglossaryentry{digest, hash, hash code} {
name=digest, ...
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How to suppress glsgroupskip on pagebreak? (glossaries package)
I'm using the 'glossaries' package to build a list of abbreviations. I have my own style defined based on a standard longtable style (to easily see what's the matter I pick the 'longheaderborder' ...
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Do not display one special acronym in list of acronyms
In my document I use several acronyms which I do not wish to be displayed in the list of acronyms. This solution using the acronym-package unfortunately doesn't work as it clashes with my use of the ...
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Capitalization with glossaries package
I have the following minimal example in which the \Gls command of the glossaries package does not seem to work.
%%
% listgloss.text
% Minimal file to test functionality and use of glossaries package
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