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In fact, I want to write a manual nomenclature inside a chapter that I named list of abbreviations, when I write that nomenclatures they are not aligned and there is a space in the beginning of the first nomenclature. Here is the code:

\documentclass[12pt]{report}
\usepackage{lipsum}
 \usepackage[intoc]{nomencl}
 \makenomenclature
\usepackage[french]{babel}
\usepackage{unnumberedtotoc}
\usepackage[automark,
plainheadsepline,
headsepline,
plainfootsepline,
footsepline,
markcase=ignoreupper]{scrlayer-scrpage}
\clearpairofpagestyles
\ihead*{\leftmark}
\cfoot*{\pagemark}
\setkomafont{pageheadfoot}{\scshape}
\usepackage{titlesec}
\usepackage[a4paper,right=20mm,left=25mm,top=30mm, bottom=40mm,%
head=14.5pt,%<- new
]{geometry}
\titleformat{\chapter}[display]
{\normalfont\huge\bfseries}{\chaptertitlename\ \thechapter}{20pt}{\Huge}
\titlespacing*{\chapter}{0pt}{0pt}{20pt}
\titleformat{\paragraph}
{\normalfont\normalsize\bfseries}{\theparagraph}{1em}{}
\titlespacing*{\paragraph}
{0pt}{3.25ex plus 1ex minus .2ex}{1.5ex plus .2ex}
\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
\addchap{Publications}
\addchap{Acknowledgement}
\printnomenclature
\nomenclature{FCB}{FC Barcelona}
\nomenclature{ASR}{AS Roma}
\nomenclature{FCS}{FC Sévilla}
\nomenclature{FCB}{FC Bayern}
\nomenclature{JFC}{Juventus FC}
\nomenclature{LFC}{Liverpool FC}
\nomenclature{MC}{Manchester City}
\chapter{Introduction}
\lipsum
\lipsum
\chapter{state of art}
\lipsum
\chapter{theory}
\lipsum
\end{document}
twimo
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  • Why do you want to write your nomenclature manually instead of using a package that is designed specifically for this purpose (nomencl or glossaries)? If you insist on a manual nomenclature, I would suggest using a tabular or even longtable environment to ensure a correct alignment of the abbreviations and their descriptions. Please also make your example a minimal working example (MWE). There are a lot of packages that are not needed to reproduce the issue you describe. – leandriis Mar 18 '18 at 20:04
  • I still find problems, so for me the simplest way is by writing them manually. For the example the code is long because of the table of contents package. I don't want to use a table I think there is a way using \begin{array} but it generates me some errors – twimo Mar 18 '18 at 20:10
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    \begin{array} is essentially a \begin{tabular} for the usage inside of a math-environment. You should use tabular or longtable if your nomenclature is longer than a single page. Alternatively you might be able to setup a nice looking nomenclature using description (maybe with the enumitem package to change the formatting a bit). – Skillmon Mar 18 '18 at 20:36
  • Also your nomenclature isn't unambiguous. You have the abbreviation FCB two times :) – Skillmon Mar 18 '18 at 20:39
  • Skillmon just an example lol – twimo Mar 18 '18 at 20:44
  • Related: Simple list of abbreviations manually and Creating abbreviations list with manual entries – leandriis Mar 18 '18 at 21:41

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Although you insisted on not to use a tabular, here is a version of a manual nomenclature using a tabular environment:

\documentclass{report}
\begin{document}

\chapter*{List of abbreviations}
\begin{tabular}{@{}ll}
FCB: &FC Barcelona\\
ASR: &AS Roma\\
FCS: &FC Sévilla \\
FCB: &FC Bayern \\
JFC: &Juventus FC\\
LFC: &Liverpool FC\\
MC: &Manchester City\\
\end{tabular}

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The above presented manual approach is limited in some cases:

  • Long descriptions that span more than one line would need the flexible width X column from the tabularx package.
  • Long lists of abbreviations spanning more than one page would need the longtable package.
  • Sorting of entries has to be done manually.

And here is an example on how to use the nomencl package to achieve an automatically alphabetically sortet nomenclature of the same enries. The intoc option includes the nomenclature in the table of contents.

\documentclass{report}
\usepackage[intoc]{nomencl}
\makenomenclature
\renewcommand{\nomname}{List of abbreviations}
\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
\printnomenclature
\nomenclature{FCB}{FC Barcelona}
\nomenclature{ASR}{AS Roma}
\nomenclature{FCS}{FC Sévilla}
\nomenclature{FCB}{FC Bayern}
\nomenclature{JFC}{Juventus FC}
\nomenclature{LFC}{Liverpool FC}
\nomenclature{MC}{Manchester City}

\end{document}

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