Terms and glossary

[oscarlevin]

To create a list of symbols for the book, I used the glossaries package. The definitions live inside "symbols.tex". For example, there I have the line

\newgsym{isom}{\cong}{isomorphic to}

which is short for

\newglossaryentry{isom}{type=symbols,name={\ensuremath{\cong}}, sort=isom, description={isomorphic to}}

In the text I can type \gls{isom} and this inserts $\cong$ (ensuring math mode) as well as puts the current page as a reference in the list of symbols.

One way or another, this needs to get implemented in the mbx source.

[davidfarmer]

The best I can see happening automatically is:

In math mode, replace \gls{isom} by
\isom

Outside math mode replace it by
$\isom$ \index{$\isom$}

where I have used LaTeX notation in both cases.

Let me know if you have a better suggestion.

On Fri, 1 Jul 2016, Oscar Levin wrote:

To create a list of symbols for the book, I used the glossaries package. The
definitions live inside "symbols.tex". For example, there I have the line

\newgsym{isom}{\cong}{isomorphic to}

which is short for

\newglossaryentry{isom}{type=symbols,name={\ensuremath{\cong}}, sort=isom,
description={isomorphic to}}

In the text I can type \gls{isom} and this inserts $\cong$ (ensuring math mode) as
well as puts the current page as a reference in the list of symbols.

One way or another, this needs to get implemented in the mbx source.

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[oscarlevin]

Would you read the definitions from the "symbols.tex" file or just convert \gls{blah} to \blah (or $\blah$, if not in math mode)? The former is really cool but sounds like a lot of work for what is probably a single use case. The latter would work only some of the time, as not all my glossary terms are so nice. For example, \gls{Bkn} should be $\b B^n_k$ (where "\b" is my macro for \mathbold).

I don't use \gls that often in the text, and as it stands now, it is pretty easy to search for them and fix manually (either before or after conversion).

[davidfarmer]

The next pull request will just replace "blah" by "\blah". We can think about automating the symbols
file, but it is a one-time global replacement and so probably is the same amount of work to do
by hand at the end instead of automating.