Questions tagged [glossaries]
{glossaries} is about creating glossaries, acronyms, nomenclatures and similar lists. A popular package is `glossaries`.
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Custom glossary style not left aligning
I have an issue with using glossaries for my abbreviations. I have defined my own glossary style, because I wish all acronym descriptions to be written with non-capital first letters in the text, but ...
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`glossaries` 'one off' lowercase full print out
I have a glossary acronym entry like this: \newacronym{mae}{MAE}{My Acronym Entry}
I have three requirements:
In the Acronyms list I would like it to print: My Acronym Entry
For most cases, when I ...
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Handling of pluralia tantum in glossaries
I have a term that does not exist in singular form (i.e., a plurale tantum) that I would like to abbreviate like ordinary acronyms. How should such a thing be handled properly in glossaries (if at all)...
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Automatic naming in glossary
I'd like the following result in a glossary: The name of a glossary entry to be automatically the number of the exercise and simultaneously this exersise's number to appear in glossary.
Below, in ...
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Combining glossaries and index?
I am working on a document where glossary entries are referred to from the index. This works, until I add conditional text, indicating whether a description was added or not. It looks like TeX falls ...
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How to keep the group heading in glossaries with the first entry in the group?
In a document with glossaries set in multicols, it often happens that the heading of a group, say A, ends up on the bottom of a column, while the first member of the group, say Albert, sits at the top ...
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Why is glossaries so eager to insert \null?
\printglossaries and friends insert the content of files created by makeglossary (or \null if that does not exist), see \@print@glossary in glossaries.sty. makeglossaries initializes the respective ...
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Indexing, making glossaries in languages with inflections
I would like to add a glossary at the end of my book which would also feature a list of the page number (indices), where the given book number can be found.
This can be done by the standard ...
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Glossaries set Custom font for Table of Acronyms and Glossary
I want to print a Glossary and Abbrevation/Acronym page with the Glossaries package. But I am needed to use a custom (company internal) font for the label and description of both.
Minimal Example:
\...
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How to show occurences of child entries in the text as parent entries in the glossary?
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[automake=immediate,symbols,nogroupskip,style=index]{glossaries}
\makeglossaries
\newglossaryentry{parent}{name={\ensuremath{x_i}}, description={this is an entry}}
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\hyperref and glossary integration with \includepdf / Microsoft Word?
I have a compilation LaTeX document which has a number of \includepdf, as well as a number of \inputted .tex files, often linking into a glossary/acronym-list with glossaries-extra.
The PDFs that are ...
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How to set header, with `\leftmark` not set by `\chapter*` environment, and manual setting cleared by `\printacronyms`?
\leftmark and \rightmark aren't being set, so I manually do this:
\chapter*{Acknowledgements}
\fancyhf[HRE,HLO]{\nouppercase{Acknowledgements}}
\phantomsection
\input{Acknowledgements}
\fancyhf[HRE,...
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Error running makeglossaries in TexStudio on Mac
I have been using TexStudio v2.12.16 on Mac OS X, using texlive 2019. I have a document I'm writing that includes a list of acronyms, using the glossaries package. When I press F9 to run ...
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In the LaTex Glossary package, how do you make a possessive acronym?
How would I make an acronym possessive? I've tried using \gls{ACR}['s] but that will just print out "Acronym (ACR)'s".
main.tex is typed as follows:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[acronym]{...
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Difficulties with texstudio and texlive
I usually use an online latex compiler, like overleaf, but I need to be able to write on latex files offline too.
I am on ubuntu 18.04 and am trying to use texlive along with texstudio but I am ...
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Heading styling problems with polyglossia and glossaries
I am writing a thesis, using lualatex with polyglossia and glossaries.
Also I have set up sans serif headings (default with koma script or set with sectsty).
My problem is, that the headings of the ...
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How to create Xindy custom language alphabet?
I am trying to create a custom alphabet (Ancient Greek) to work with Xindy and Luatex. My goal is to put a index/glossary in this custom alphabet. I tried to adapt the methods in here and here, but ...
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Listing Symbols before Table of Contents
My LaTeX looks as follows (I omit somethings):
\documentclass{amsbook}
\usepackage{fancyhdr,etoolbox}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\fancyhf{}
\fancyhead[LE,RO]{\thepage}
\fancyhead[LO]{\nouppercase\rightmark}
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Vertically alligned description of acronyms using glossaries package
After spending lots of time searching for a solution, I still haven't found anything that really suits my problem. The goal is pretty simple: I would like to generate a List of Acronyms which consist ...
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Glossary: list of acronyms with sub-categories
I am trying to print a list of acronyms using the glossaries package.
Sometimes, I have nested acronyms, where an acronym includes another.
Here is a MWE:
\documentclass[12pt, a4paper]{article}
\...
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Acronym long version in margin
I'm using the glossaries package to enter acronyms, in an scrbook document. For now, I'm using \gls in the text, and \acrshort & \acrlong in tables (to manually control the form).
Because I use a ...
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Partial preamble precompilation? (luaLaTeX document with glossaries (and shell-escape, if possible))
Main concern
Hi, I've figured out how to use mylatexformat.ltx to precompile a preamble and then use the precompiled .fmt to compile a separate file that does not contain a preamble, but rather uses ...
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How to center entire glossary but not column contents using leipzig package
I am using the leipzig package for my thesis, and I would like to center the glossary horizontally on the page, but I would like for the contents of the columns to remain flushleft. I have tried ...
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Glossaries: Why does `see` reference not show up in acronyms?
I want to use a glossary in addition to the acronyms with package glossaries. The entries in the acronyms shall reference the glossary entry and create a link via the see key newacronym. This works in ...
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Print glossaryentry long, short and pages, no description
I have a list of glossary entries and I want a list of abbreviations with short - long - pages in which they appear.
However, I can't get it working
Here is my MWE:
\documentclass{report}
% ...
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How to count appearances of glossary entries
Let's say I have the following text:
In my neighborhood, there is a house. My house is green and it is a
big house.
If I defined:
\newglossaryentry{house}{name=house,description={\nopostdesc}}
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Using \hyperref and \ref inside see text of glossaries-extra
I have a working glossary for which I would like to use glossaries-extra (basically to have a link only in the first appearance of each glossary entry or acronym, such as in: glossaries: hyperlink ...
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Formatting issues with glossaries in multiple file document
I'm currently writing my thesis with TexMaker and I also use the glossaries(-extra) package for my abbreviations. In general everythin works fine, but I'm struggeling with some formatting.
First of ...
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How can I print glossary entries in different categories?
My glossary is working fine, displaying all the entries in alphabetical order. However, the thing is that I would like to arrange my entries in three different categories (let's say 'Spring', 'Summer' ...
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Adding a description to an acronym
I'm using a glossary and also some acronyms, but some of the acronyms are complicated so I want to have a description for them in the glossary.
Something like this:
\newacronym{gwa}{GWA}{Gateway ...
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Hyperref and nested \glsxtrshort and \glsfmtlong
The glossaries-extra manual recomends the use of \glsxtrshort and friends, when cross-referencing other acronyms in the definition of an acronym. This mechanism, however, appears to break when used ...
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Glossaries list doesn't display
I have a list of glossaries as shown below included in my code but the list of glossaries isn't displayed. Please help. Here is my LaTeX code.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{glossaries}
\...
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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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Inline descriptions and automatic sorted glossary entries
Is there any way to get \definedescription & \setupdescriptions to not only produce the inline description, but also an entry in a sorted glossary? Perhaps with before= & after= to add the ...
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Glossaries: List all symbols available independent of usage in appendix
I might have a somewhat strange question. Background is that I am writing a package for a group of colleagues. We all want to use the same nomenclature in our documentation.
Thus, I wrote a small ...
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How to use math symbols in a glossary?
I have a document to which I'd like to add a list of variables with short description. Therefore I'd like to use the glossaries package. It works in case the glossary contains only normal text, but ...
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Defining an abbreviation style in glossaries that shows only long version first and short version afterwards
I want to define a new abbreviation style in glossaries-extra that fits the binomial nomenclature of species like this:
First use (only the long version): Escherichia coli
Second use (only the short ...
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Glossary title not showing
I'm trying to use glossaries but it is not displaying the title and only some terms. Tried to minify my document as much as possible
\documentclass[12pt,twoside]{report}
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\...
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Formatting the acronym output from the glossaries package
I would like to format my acronym output as following:
The long forms should align. How can I change the output so that there is a spacing between the acronym and the long form?
I also would like the ...
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Package glossaries Error: Glossary entry has already been defined
I'm getting this error when I use the \gls command:
Package glossaries Error: Glossary entry `DCD' has already been defined.
These are how I my package:
\documentclass[12pt]{book}
\usepackage{...
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Separate list of abbreviations/acronyms for each chapter in book with `glossaries` package
I'm trying to generate a list of abbreviations/acronyms separately for each chapter in a book using the glossaries package and xindy. Any abbreviation can appear in any chapter.
Using Nicola Talbot's ...
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glossaries: fail to expand in tabulary
I have a problem similar to the question glossaries: fail to expand in tabularx.
I have acronyms which might apear for the first time in a tabulary environment.
(I know that this is not good practice ...
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{xe|lua}latex + LTL symbols + glossaries = bad spacing around LTL symbols
Continuing hyperref + glossaries + latex = bad spacing around math relations, let us consider an example of typesetting linear-time logic formulas:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{mathtools}%%% ...
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Glossaries package customization of entries. acrshort not working
I have customized, with the help of How to combine Acronym and Glossary . However, I can't get acrshort or glsentryshort output.
MWE:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[...
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Formatting glossary and bibliography's headers
In the example below, mismatch between OT1H glo and bib's headers, and OTOH the way they appear in the toc: chapter and section, respectively. I would like to change the former to section. Also, there ...
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Use Abbreviations in text without full meaning, even in First Use
I am using using the package \usepackage{glossaries} to insert abbreviations in my report, loaded from myglossaries.tex file, as below:
\usepackage[nopostdot,toc,acronym,nomain,nonumberlist]{...
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glossaries - hyperlink to custom label
Is there any way of getting a glossary hyperlink to link to a custom label instead of the glossary entry?
MWE:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[colorlinks]{hyperref}
\usepackage[debug=...
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Invoking glossaries to fill author field of bib entries
It doesn't work out of the box: it's treats first and last name as last name. I guess "expand after" comes into play, but long time since I used this feature.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[...
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Can we use \glsxtrnewsymbol for a symbol containing \operatorname?
Please consider the following example from this question (Method 3):
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[colorlinks]{hyperref}
\usepackage[symbols, nogroupskip]{glossaries-extra}
\...
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How can we create a list of symbols referencing the location of their definitions?
Please consider the following example from this question (Method 3):
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[colorlinks]{hyperref}
\usepackage[symbols, nogroupskip]{glossaries-extra}
\...
