Automatic Glossaries in LaTeX

Author

writeLaTeX

Last Updated

8 years ago

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Creative Commons CC BY 4.0

Abstract

This example shows how to generate automatic glossaries with the glossaries package. For more information, there's a good guide in the LaTeX wikibook, and also in the package documentation.

\documentclass[12pt]{article}

% standard incantations
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\usepackage[english]{babel}

% clickable links in the PDF
\usepackage[colorlinks]{hyperref}

% glossary
\usepackage[xindy]{glossaries} 
\input{glossary}
\makeglossaries

\title{Automatic Glossaries in LaTeX}
\author{writeLaTeX}
\date{\today}

\begin{document}
\maketitle

\section{Example}

The \texttt{glossaries} package automatically generates a list of glossary entries. It's great for keeping track of your \gls{domain-knowledge} and \glspl{tla}. In this example we've put the glossary definitions in a separate \texttt{glossary.tex} file, which you can edit via the project menu.

\printglossaries

\end{document}