Questions tagged [bib2gls]
{bib2gls} is about using the `bib2gls` application, which is designed to work with the `glossaries-extra` package.
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Which entries in aux file are read by bib2gls?
I think I know the answer for bibtex:
\bibcite, \bibstyle, \bibdata and @input commands.
For bib2gls not so clear to me.
I ask because I am working on a specialized build tool
and I am interested in ...
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Broken footnotebackref's links to footnotes inside glossary made with longtable
I have created a glossary style (based on existing style). It does not possess the more severe issues with footnotes that my previous approaches did. Nevertheless, one footnote-related problem ...
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Sorting in bib2gls with subscript
Currently i try to setup bib2gls for organizing defined mathematical symbols.
Therby i've encountered the problem that when using subscripts like:
\ensuremath{x_\mathrm{a}}
is isn't sorting it ...
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How to enable auto-completion for \gls* and friends in TeXstudio when using package glossaries-extra with bib2gls?
It is standard behaviour of TeXstudio to autocomplete certain commands with arguments. For example, when correctly set up, \cite commands will offer bibliography entries, \ref will provide created ...
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How to add a sepfootnote's footnote inside entry name field with glossaries-extra and bib2gls?
I use glossaries-extra via bib2gls -g to generate a glossary. Consider the following glossary entry placed in file entriesTest.bib:
@entry{test-entry,
name={fake name\sepfootnote{A}},
text={},
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Decreasing left-margin horizontal spacing of child entry in glossaries-extra with alttree style
I am trying to change horizontal spacing in a glossary. More specifically,
I am using glossaries-extra with bib2gls, using altree style;
there are parent entries and child entries in the glossary;
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How to make names and descriptions clickable hyperlinks in addition to page numbers in a glossary?
By default, in a glossary only the page numbers are clickable hyperlinks.
Q: How could one also make the names and descriptions of entries into clickable hyperlinks?
This would be analogous to ...
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Triggers and auto-completions with ```glossaries-extra``` + ```bib2gls``` in Latex Workshop and Overleaf
I've recently raised a question about citing and keeping track of long lists of species names (Is it possible to add triggers (like the ones used in snippets) for quickly citing specific terms my text ...
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Custom glossary field in siunitx macro fails latexmk compilation
I am writing on a thesis with a symbols glossary with some custom-defined fields and a custom-defined glossary style. The document also has an abbreviations glossary but it does not use any custom ...
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Specify articles for short and long forms of acronyms with glossaries-extra
Is there a way to specify different indefinite articles for short and long forms of abbreviations using glossaries-extra and bib2gls?
I recently transitioned my project from using the acronym and ...
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bib2gls without sorting
I am using bib2gls to create various glossaries, each one created from a separate file using \GlsXtrLoadResources. I would like to be able to sort one of those glossaries by hand. Is there a way to ...
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No abbreviations printed
With the way I compile my code in TexMaker, I don't get any printed acronym in the pdf.
Compile:
pdflatex -synctex=1 -interaction=nonstopmode -shell-escape %.tex|bib2gls --group %|bibtex %|pdflatex -...
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Canonical way to declare new bib2gls entries for use with glossaries-extra
I found my self reusing blocks of
entry-type-aliases={%
module = entry,%
repo = entry,%
...
}
quite often, but I think copy pasting code is a bad idea.
As I keep reusing and expanding my ...
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use bib2gls in individually compiled subfiles
I am trying to use the glossaries-extra package with record (using bib2gls) option for a symbols list in a long document where each chapter can be compiled individually using the subfiles package.
My ...
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Problem with bib2gls
In the "The glossaries package v4.46: a guide for beginner" on page 24 (from https://www.ctan.org/pkg/glossaries) it is stated:
Having the file myDoc.tex
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[...
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concitional compilation of bib2gls with arara
I'm working on a large project (3 volumes of about 500 pages each), and I'm using bib2gls to manage my glossaries. In order to save compilation time I started using arara with conditionals like in How ...
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Why do glossaries-extra package and bib2gls application give incorrect utf8 cyrillic characters?
I do not know the origin of this problem and how to solve it. Does anybody can help me? Many thanks!
This is my working example (test.tex) of using glossaries-extra package and bib2gls with cyrillic (...
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Change header text in longtab glossary list with glossaries-extra and bib2gls?
I have been trying to get the appearance of my list of symbols just the way I want it, but despite following the advice of several other questions/answers on this forum, and reading through the ...
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Possible incompatibility between glossaries-extra (bib2gls) and totcount (\newtotcounter)
In current MiKTeX distribution (both release and pre-release), compiling the following code leads to java.lang.StackOverflowError that, according to bib2gls’s manual, may be caused by an infinite loop....
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Problems with styles of multiple glossaries
I am working in a very large document and I want to create a Glossary, List of abbreviations/acronyms and an Index using the package glossaries-extra with bib2gls. For having a more practical example, ...
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Processing luatex callback functions when creating glossary with bib2gls
In my project, I am looking for simple, but automated string replacement. For that I have hit upon this question and its answer:
What packages provide text/command substitution for LaTeX, XeTeX and ...
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How to add an engine in TexShop 4.27 on MacOS 10.14.5 bib2gls, arara
I am new to Tex.
I am trying to build a glossary using the package glossaries-extra. I am drawing my abbreviations list from a .bib file using GlsXtrLoadResources. Unfortunately I cannot seem to add ...
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Bib2gls support for non-ASCII characters or non-english languages; .glstex is unable to load non-ASCII characters
I am trying to incorporate bib2gls into glossaries managment in my project, however I hit into trouble when using my native language (czech) and its diacritics (as far as my knowledge goes, those are ...
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How to output value of entry key with glossaries-extra and bib2gls?
For reasons similar to this question's (noun declension), I wish to refer to an entry and output an arbitrary text (in this case, a particular declension of the entry noun). It looks like entering the ...
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How to put translations in parentheses on first use with glossaries-extra?
I am currently writing a thesis in Swedish and have chosen to use Swedish translations for certain terms. Since they are not well known in Swedish, I would like to present the English term in ...
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List of acronyms alignment error using bib2gls
Recently I have learnt how to use bib2gls in order to generate list of abbreviations, acronyms, symbols, etc. There is a power full method described in previous posts.
However, once I tried to ...
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Errors in using "List of Symbols" for a thesis using .bib files?
I have the wish to use an effective method to create a glossary and be able to classify the different "types" of entries in different lists (abbreviations, acronyms, symbols, glossary, etc.).
I ...
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Keep sorting local to groups for symbols in glossaries-extra with bib2gls
Consider this example:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[record,style=alttreegroup,nomain,symbols]{glossaries-extra}
\begin{filecontents}{symbols.bib}
@symbol{alpha,
name = {\ensuremath{\alpha}},
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Manage multiple glossaries in one bib file
I am currently exploring the tools given by glossaires-extra when combined with bib2gls. But I get stuck on some points.
I have to work with multiple glossaries, so I declare my glossaries notation ...
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Problem with the Glossary+bib2gls on Overleaf
I'm writing my thesis using overleaf and I would like to add Glossary. I have added the following commands to my preamble.tex
\usepackage[record]{glossaries-extra}
\GlsXtrLoadResources % input file ...
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bib2gls exception NoSuchMethodError
$ bib2gls file
bib2gls version 1.5 (2018-05-09)
Reading file.aux
Reading greek-symbols.bib
Encoding: UTF-8
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: java.util.Vector.sort(Ljava/util/...
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Conflict between polyglossia and glossaries-extra?
I’m trying to get to the bottom of an odd issue I’m having when using the glossaries-extra package, specifically its record option which is necessary in order for it to work with the bib2gls tool.
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customization of glossaries
This is a follow up to this question.
As in the aforementioned question I have multiple files, actually 3. All of them have to share the same glossaries. With the answer and comments of the last ...
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Bib2gls - Missing aux file
I have following problem using the glossarie-extra usepackage. Everytime I want to compile my document I get the following error message for bib2gls:
Missing aux file. Use --help for help.
(Use --...
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Problem with using glossaries-extra with ocgcolorlinks option of the ocgx2 package and scalebox-based glsabbrvsmfont/glsnamefont commands
The following example causes problem:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[colorlinks,linkcolor=blue]{hyperref}
\usepackage[ocgcolorlinks]{ocgx2}
\usepackage[record,acronym,shortcuts=ac]{glossaries-...
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glossaries-extra – usage of \ifglsused with acronyms loaded from external file causes error
I use \ifglsused command in my document. It works well as long as the entry it refers to is already used (e.g., when line 2. \ac{at}.\\ in MWE body is uncommented). However, if this entry has not been ...
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Use glossaries-extra + bib2gls with secondary files via \include instead of \input
Explanation
I've been writing a larger document for a while and
used makeidx to produce my index.
However, this seemed to be not flexible enough,
so I swapped to the more sophisticated glossaries-...
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glossaries-extra - Problem creating new style for acronyms
I'm trying to create a new style to display my acronyms in the text with the glossaries-extra package and the bib2gls tool (for I need to have other lists with different sorting options).
I need to ...
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CJK fonts with bib2gls [closed]
I'm having difficulty displaying CJK fonts in a glossary with bib2gls. I'm using MikTeX, which I think may produce different results to TeXLive. Here's a MWE:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[T1]{...
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\acl{} command problem while using glossaries-extra with bib2gls
The following exemplary document compiles as intended in example 1.
Example 1:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[record,acronym,toc,shortcuts=ac]{glossaries-extra}
\usepackage{relsize} % ...
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.latexmkrc for bib2gls
I'm trying to set up a .latexmkrc file, to compile the document I'm creating and call both biber and bib2gls, but I'm having a problem: sometimes the rule for calling bib2gls works (by registering the ...
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glossaries-extra: How to apply custom abbreviation styles while using bib2gls
I'm using glossaries-extra with the bib2gls option on a big document (I tried to use the standard method, with \makeglossaries, but I got the insufficient write buffers error).
My problem is this: ...
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