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Torben Knudsen

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Sep 23, 2009, 2:23:18 AM9/23/09
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To create nomenclature or list of symbols I found the below packages.
I haven't done such lists before. Some of the packages seems a bit
old. Does anyone have suggestions for which to use or maybe
suggestions for better ones?
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Stefan Pinnow

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Sep 23, 2009, 2:25:37 AM9/23/09
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Dear Torben,

> To create nomenclature or list of symbols I found the below packages.

seems that you missed to add the packages you found ...

Regards,
Stefan


Lars Madsen

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Sep 23, 2009, 4:24:21 AM9/23/09
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Torben Knudsen wrote:
> To create nomenclature or list of symbols I found the below packages.
> I haven't done such lists before. Some of the packages seems a bit
> old. Does anyone have suggestions for which to use or maybe
> suggestions for better ones?

interesting package selection ;-)

anyways I think I'd recommend the glossaries package. Mostly because it
is modern and well maintained.

I haven't tried it yet myself, but will shortly for my Danish LaTeX book.


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Sep 23, 2009, 11:10:09 AM9/23/09
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On Sep 23, 4:24 am, Lars Madsen <dal...@RTFSIGNATUREimf.au.dk> wrote:
> Torben Knudsen wrote:
> > To create nomenclature or list of symbols I found the below packages.
> > I haven't done such lists before.  Some of the packages seems a bit
> > old.  Does anyone have suggestions for which to use or maybe
> > suggestions for better ones?

nomencl may be all you need.

Torben Knudsen

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Sep 24, 2009, 2:22:26 AM9/24/09
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"Stefan Pinnow" <stefan...@tu-clausthal.de> writes:

> Dear Torben,
>
>> To create nomenclature or list of symbols I found the below packages.
> seems that you missed to add the packages you found ...

Sorry, here they are

1 listofsymbols Create and manipulate lists of symbols

2 nomencl Produce lists of symbols as in nomenclature.

3 nomentbl Nomenclature typeset in a longtable

Torben Knudsen

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Nov 24, 2009, 2:49:07 AM11/24/09
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Lars Madsen <dal...@RTFSIGNATUREimf.au.dk> writes:

> Torben Knudsen wrote:
>> To create nomenclature or list of symbols I found the below packages.
>> I haven't done such lists before. Some of the packages seems a bit
>> old. Does anyone have suggestions for which to use or maybe
>> suggestions for better ones?
>
> interesting package selection ;-)
>
> anyways I think I'd recommend the glossaries package. Mostly because
> it is modern and well maintained.
>
> I haven't tried it yet myself, but will shortly for my Danish LaTeX
> book.

I now finally made a nomunclature. I first considered to install
glossaries but even the installation seem complicated to me. Moreover
the whole packages seemed large and complicated.

Then I installed nomencl which is simpler but I think it works fine.

If anyone have good arguments for another packages I am interested.

Thanks for the help.

Leo

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Nov 24, 2009, 5:30:54 AM11/24/09
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On 2009-11-24 07:49 +0000, Torben Knudsen wrote:
> I now finally made a nomunclature. I first considered to install
> glossaries but even the installation seem complicated to me. Moreover
> the whole packages seemed large and complicated.
>
> Then I installed nomencl which is simpler but I think it works fine.
>
> If anyone have good arguments for another packages I am interested.

Installation of ctan packages is elegantly managed by TeX Live 2009. So
I haven't come into any problems with installing glossaries.

One key thing about glossaries is that its author is actively developing
it and offering solutions in a prompt mannner whenever questions are
posted to this group (which I'm very grateful). As a bonus, glossaries
offers more features than similar packages.

But I agree the document is a bit daunting. I actually got started with
glossaries through this know-how doc� on www.latex-community.org.

Best wishes,

Leo


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http://www.latex-community.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=263%3Aglossaries-nomenclature-lists-of-symbols-and-acronyms&catid=55%3Alatex-general&Itemid=112
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