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I have generated a nomenclature for my document and the horizontal spacing between the symbol and the definition stays constant no matter how long the symbol is. For example:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{nomencl}
\makenomenclature
\begin{document}
Example of nomenclature 
\nomenclature{TIARLW}{This is a really long word}
\nomenclature{TOA}{This one also}
\nomenclature{a}{another}
\nomenclature{$\partial{u}/\partial{z}$}{Here's another one}
\printnomenclature
\end{document}

resulting in

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How is it possible to make the nomenclature so that each of the definitions are aligned? Is it possible to treat this as a table?

KatyB
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1 Answers1

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You can fix the nomlabelwidth (amount of space for symbols) by the optional argument to \printnomenclature like 

\printnomenclature[<width>]

Initially it is fixed as 1cm.

Full code:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{nomencl}
\makenomenclature
\begin{document}
Example of nomenclature
\nomenclature{TIARLW}{This is a really long word}
\nomenclature{TOA}{This one also}
\nomenclature{a}{another}
\nomenclature{$\partial{u}/\partial{z}$}{Here's another one}
\printnomenclature[1in]              %%% add width here.
\end{document}

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Choose the appropriate value.