Questions tagged [glossaries]

{glossaries} is about creating glossaries, acronyms, nomenclatures and similar lists. A popular package is glossaries.

is about creating glossaries, acronyms, nomenclatures and similar lists. A popular package is glossaries.

The memoir class provides a built-in support for glossaries.

A similar package is nomencl, but 'restricted' to nomenclatures.

Acronyms can be generated with glossaries but with the acronym and acro packages as well.

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Defining plural form for glossaries entries

Based on the following answer, How shall I define plural form of glossaries? Two separate acronym list using package glossaries For example, \newglossaryentry{LED} { name={LED}, description={light emitting diode}, first={\glsentrydesc{LED}…
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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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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 (Description). I would like to suppress the expansion where I do not find it…
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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? Specifically, the default is for \gls{dft} to…
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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 of similar questions (along with helpful answers)…
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Creating glossary entries in separate file

Is there any way around to create glossary entries in separate file? I do prefer to store glossary entries in a separate file. Thanks for any comment.
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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 \glsaddall. But this adds the page numbers to the…
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New error using glossaries package / tracklang.sty

I used glossaries package many times. Recently I restart my computer and I reinstall MiKTeX/TeXstudio. When I try to compile (an old) .tex file I receive this error File tracklang.sty not found. \@gls@usetranslator You have requested release…
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Alternative to glossaries?

UPDATE: I have been using glassaries for some time now, and kind of got used to it. It's not as bad as I at first thought. Is there a nicer alternative to glossaries package? It's a pita to use. Documentation is lacking examples, some commands don't…
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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 \documentclass[12pt,…
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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 lettered…
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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 acronyms in a separate file. Though in the MWE, I have…
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Glossaries with more hierarchical categories

I use a lot of classic glossaries in my work: main, acronyms, abbreviations… I also use more complex glossaries for linguistic studies, with hierarchical categories. I know how to build glossaries with subentries but not with sub-subentries. I want…
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How to add acronym list

I want to add an list of acronyms that I can reference to continously in the text. Say if I write in the glossary \newacronym{ny}{NY}{New York} NY will appear in the document when I type \gls{ny}. I have the following code in the…
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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…
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