Talk:LaTeX/Glossary

acronym-option
This needs further explaination how to use this option. It is mentioned that \printglossaries omits the acronyms in order to put them in a seperate list, but it is not specified how to that.

My first week of using latex, this wikibook has been hugely helpful.

Quick point: there's no Xindy for windows, and Miktex doesn't seem to tell you that there isn't. (It usually manages package download if they're not already present, so I just presumed it had downloaded it. Not so.)


 * xindy is written in lisp and perl and should run on Windows with some work. Robbiemorrison (discuss • contribs) 09:39, 25 July 2012 (UTC)


 * Okay then : the official xindy site says "There is neither a xindy distribution for Windows nor for Mac OS X. We would like to have one, but nobody has done the port yet." Robbiemorrison (discuss • contribs) 14:38, 25 July 2012 (UTC)

Options other than the glossaries package
This page should really provide coverage of all glossary/nomenclature solutions, including:


 * longtable : hand-code
 * loss : makes use of bibTeX (where \cite is replaced by \gloss)
 * glosstex : this package also makes use of makeindex
 * listofsymbols
 * nomencl and nomentbl : these packages are alike, both making use of makeindex

Source: http://www.howtotex.com/packages/create-a-simple-nomenclature-with-the-longtable-package/

This will require a major rearrangement nonetheless. Robbiemorrison (discuss • contribs) 10:09, 25 July 2012 (UTC)

Custom TOC entry
It's possible to use the command \glstoctrue to insert the Glossary into the TOC.

display and accented characters in glossaries and acronyms
I'm in a bit the rush currently, but when it cools down, I'll wrote it down in the article properly (unless its taken care of in the mean time).

Display issues : texstudio > option > build : add a user command makeglossaries % to have it available and run it between two runs. Following french or english interface it appears (or not). It appeared in my french display but wasn't available in the runs. I added it in the english display. Now it is available also in the french.

(+ xindy is not in texlive-latex-base, don't forget to add it in your installed packages. Yeah you can make fun of me who call a package not installed)

accented \gls : http://latex-community.org/know-how/263-glossaries-nomenclature-lists-of-symbols-and-acronyms

\newglossaryentry{biosphere}{name={biosph{\`e}re}, description={...}} worked for me.

--RP87 (discuss • contribs) 09:18, 14 July 2016 (UTC)