[[!meta title="Glossary in Latex" ]] [[!meta date="2004-05-27 17:31:44" ]] [[!tag School General]]
Glossaries list difficult or specialized words with their definitions. In XHTML that’s acronym (not abbr).
I can’t help but use strange terminology in my profession, although I think it is important to explain myself as well. Often I lose track of the meaning of acronyms I use every day.
BTW acronyms, abbreviations and glossaries all mean the same things to me right now.
It took me a while, but I managed to add a glossary to my texed thesis.
I used nomenclature package as it was installed on my system. GlossTeX wasn’t.
You need:
\usepackage{nomencl} \makeglossary \renewcommand{\nomname}{Glossary}
In the top of your latex source. Somewhere between \documentclass and \begin{document}.
Then you should make definitions of terms when you use them in your document:
\nomenclature{BTW}{By the way}
Then right down at the bottom before your bibliography definition.
\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{Glossary} \printglossary
Finally you need to throw in something like:
makeindex $(FILENAME).glo -s nomencl.ist -o $(FILENAME).gls
Into your Makefile. Usually I would have put this super tip into my Tips&Tricks, but this blog seems to get much better google treatment. Perhaps I will move the tips someday here to blogland.