Questions tagged [glossaries]
{glossaries} is about creating glossaries, acronyms, nomenclatures and similar lists. A popular package is `glossaries`.
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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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glossaries: How to customize list of symbols with additional column for units?
I want to add an additional column to the list of symbols for inserting the belonging units to the preceding variables.
In my case, it is necessary to use three different and independent glossary-...
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How to combine Acronym and Glossary
I'm using the glossaries package.
I have an acronym (e.g., API) that should be explained in the glossary. It should be linked to the glossary at every occurrence, but its first occurrence should be ...
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What can interfere with glossaries to prevent printing?
I have the strange experience that from the combination
\glossarystyle{altlisthypergroup}
\clearpage
Printing acronyms
\printglossary[type=acronym]
only the debug message is printed, ...
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Alphabetically display the items in itemize
I am wondering whether it is possible to display the items alphabetically regardless of the order we type on the backend? For example I am using itemize as follows:
\begin{itemize}
\item ISDYNSTP:...
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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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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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Symbols with optional parameter in glossaries with \newglossary
I am trying to use the approach given in the solution here Glossary entry with extra parameter (which looks really neat) for an application where i am having more than one glossary; in the original i ...
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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}
\usepackage{...
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glossaries: don't print single occurences
Similiar to acronym package: don't write acronym if single occurence i'd like to avoid listing acronyms that i only used once with the glossaries package. The answer to this question Ignoring an ...
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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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How do I remove alphabetical grouping of acronyms in the list?
I would like an acronym list with equal vertical space between each acronym. My list is grouping acronyms that start with the same letter. How is this avoided?
Here is the code for a MWE with this "...
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Best solution for acronyms, abbreviations, glossary and index
I am writing a scientific text/book which will contain acronyms, which should have a glossary and should also have an index. The question is: which LaTeX setup is best for this? Which are the best ...
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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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debug No room for a new \write problem
I have a template with an extensive documentation. (See TemplateDocumentation.pdf). It compiled several month ago. Now with updated packages it does not compile anymore because of the famous No room ...
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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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Glossaries and custom section headings broken
I've a document, where I use the glossaries package to manage acronyms for me. Sometimes, I use a \gls{} command inside a section heading, and I have defined page headers to have the current section ...
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How to configure TexStudio editor to use glossaries package with makeglossaries and xindy or how to configure TexStudio to use arara?
Xindy is an efficient indexing tool, it is an external perl-based application that ships readily with TexLive distribution but not with MikTeX, for the latter one you need to install it manually, this ...
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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 occurrence 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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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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Include glossary in table of contents
I am using \usepackage{glossaries}. How do you include it in \tableofcontents? The following does not do the trick:
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{glossaries}
\makeglossaries
\newacronym{mwe}{MWE}...
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Glossary with entries without reference
Is there a command so that the glossary will also display elements without links (an equivalent of \nocite in BibTeX)?
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How to create a list of symbols where symbols can be used in math mode?
I describe complex protocols with lots of variables in different files. The problem is that I might change the variable names later. My idea was to define variable names as Latex commands like \...
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How to use glossaries for different grammatical acronym forms?
I'm writing a paper in German and am struggling with how to make glossaries work for me. In German, there are 4 different cases, and depending on which combination a gender, case, singular/plural and ...
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Glossaries Capitalize Every First Letter
How can I get the \Gls{...} command to capitalize the first letter of EACH word, not just the first word?
\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article}
\usepackage{glossaries}
\newacronym{tla}{TLA}{three ...
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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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Sorting Vietnamese utf8 index with make-rules in xindy package
I am using the xindy package to compile the index containing Vietnamese. It
works fine except the order within words. The "standard" order is accepted
as the following, which is different from the ...
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can't get latexmk to work in TeXShop
I'm trying to add a glossary to my book. I wanted to use latexmk to execute makeglossaries for me. I'm using TeXShop on my Mac.
So I went to the TeX Live Utility and activated the latexmk package. ...
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Add custom key to display units in glossary with siunitx
I decided to enrich my list of symbols by adding a unit column with a newly defined key "unit".
\glsaddkey
{unit}
{}
{\glsentryunit}
{\Glsentryunit}
{\glsunit}
{\Glsunit}
{\GLSunit}
A new ...
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Glossary entry with extra parameter
I want to create a list of symbols for my work, where the symbols are often provided with an index. Now I do not want to create a new entry for each symbol and index. Is it possible with another ...
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How to prevent page numbers from appearing on glossaries?
I am using the glossaries package to make a glossary. However I don't want the page numbers where the entry is referenced to be shown after the description in the glossary. How can I do that? Actually ...
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\printglossaries is not generating anything for me
I'm using the glossaries package with MikTeX 2.9 (using TeXnicCenter as my editor) and my document is setup as follows:
\documentclass[ebook,11pt,openany]{memoir}
\usepackage{color}
\usepackage{...
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\usepackage{glossaries} won't work after Miktex-Update/-Reinstallation
I'm struggeling with the same error described in this post Problems on Latex Compiler Errors. Here's an MWE
\documentclass{scrartcl}
\usepackage{glossaries}
\begin{document}
Lipsum
\end{document}
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Is there a program for managing glossary tags?
This question led to a new application:
bib2gls
I use the "glossaries" package a lot, and it is super helpful in complex writing for sorting lots of things out. However, as my "glossary.tex" file ...
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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 ...
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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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Glossaries: vertical aligment of acronyms' long names
How can I vertically align entries in my acronyms' list? I use the Glossaries package to generate it.
Here is MWE:
% !TeX program = xelatex
% !TeX encoding = utf-8
% !TeX spellcheck = ru_RU
\...
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Glossaries : list only page number of the first occurrence
I need to print in the acronym list the page number of first occurrence of an acronym in the text, not the page numbers of the subsequent occurrences. How can I achieve that ?
I have defined my ...
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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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List of glossaries not displaying
I am using the following code for the list of glossaries, but the list of glossaries do not generate (the code compiles well). Can anybody suggest what may be the problem?
\documentclass{article}
\...
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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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Howto achieve capitalized description in glossary table?
I use the glossaries package to generate my acronym list. Since I use the acronyms in the text I have to write the description lowercase. Thus, I have a lowercase description in the acronym list. Can ...
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How to configure TexStudio editor to use Xindy?
I am using TexStudio editor for LaTeXing, I want to use Xindy engine though for indexing, in the commands of TexStudio, I found there is a default command for texdindy as in the image below. But how ...
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\pagestyle{ruled} adds superfluous text in glossary
I'm writing my thesis using the memoir package, using \pagestyle{ruled}, and have created glossaries for a glossary and an acronym list. The resulting pdf, contains the superfluous text "Glossary" and ...
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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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\usepackage{glossaries} with 3 columns
I need to have extra column in the glossary.
My application is list of symbols with
symbol
description
units
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{glossaries}
\makeglossaries
\newglossaryentry{mwe}{...
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Glossary per chapter (not by section)
As in Glossary per chapter or section, I'm trying to use the glossaries package to create acronym lists but only by chapter, not by section.
I've tried to adapt the answer, but I don't manage to do ...
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Glossaries are not printed
I am trying to make a glossary list using xindy in TexStudio. I have already installed Perl but it does not work.
Here is my MWE
\documentclass[a4paper,openright,12pt]{book}
\usepackage{vmargin}
\...
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How to make the term "page" show in the Glossary list?
I have recently started to use the package glossaries.
When I make the Glossary list, the page numbers show up at the end of the description. So far so good.
I have found information about how to ...
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Suppress the glossary expansion at first occurrence
I am using the glossaries package to generate the glossary in my report.
However, I am using the entries first time in a Table where it is expanding in the form <item>(Description).
I would like ...
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