Recently I was asked how to produce multiple glossaries in the same document. The glossaries package, which supersedes glossary, provides such functionality. In this post, I primarily focus on adding topic-specific glossaries besides the main glossary and list of acronyms. Links to further readings are given for glossaries package basics as well as for chapter-/section-/equation-wise … [Read more…]
According to Wikipedia, a glossary is an alphabetical list of terms in a particular domain of knowledge with the definitions for those terms. It doesn’t come as a surprise that there are several LaTeX packages that assist with the generation of glossaries. Among them are the nomencl package, the glossary package, and the glossaries package. … [Read more…]
Update (April 2014): This package has not been updated in the past few years. You may want to use the more recent and more flexible glossaries package. Printing a list of abbreviations or symbols is one of these things (like so many) LaTeX provides a very simple and elegant solution for. The nomencl … [Read more…]