![]() Overview of the steps to generate a glossary Here, I’ll introduce the glossaries package and provide some code that I hope will help non-expert LaTeX users to generate a glossary or list of acronyms. Glossary is obsolete and has been replaced by glossaries, the most recent and flexible of the three packages. Nomencl has been around for quite some time and I previously wrote about it on this blog. Among them are the nomencl package, the glossary package, and the glossaries package. It doesn’t come as a surprise that there are several LaTeX packages that assist with the generation of glossaries. They each have a huge learning curve (though they're both worth it!), and trying to do them both simultaneously would make the most patient person scream.According to Wikipedia, a glossary is an alphabetical list of terms in a particular domain of knowledge with the definitions for those terms. However, I don't really recommend trying to master both vim and LaTeX at the same time. If anyone is interested, I'll post instructions for using that with Ubuntu somewhere. I've written some custom scripts, including one that provides vim with a live-update-as-you-type preview panel using mupdf. In the meantime, I've settled on using vim, but without the vim-latex suite. Several people have mentioned Texmaker, but if you're considering that, I highly recommend going for the TexmakerX fork instead, which has a lot more features, or at least I did when I compared. That way you never have to worry about missing pacakges. If you're not hurting for disk space (beware, it's over 2 GB!), I recommend installing the texlive-full package, or even skipping Ubuntu's package manager and installing TeXlive directly from CTAN/TUG. (E.g., Texmaker(x) has a built in preview now, gedit has become more SyncTeX compliant - I guess evince now has some SyncTeX features, though I've never figured out how to use them.) I think a lot of the information there will be worthwhile, even though some of it is out of date, or new things have been added in the meantime not mentioned there. The post is about six months old at this time. (Of course, I was using Ubuntu when I wrote the post!) I while back I wrote a blog post comparing 8 different free LaTeX editors, all of which are available for Ubuntu. Most of these editors don't really have a preview pane but this is not really necessary: Just keep evince open with the document you are working on, evince will automatically refresh its content as soon as you "compile" your latex document ![]() lyx : not really a LaTeX editor but more a word processor that uses LaTeX internally - opinions differ whether this is the best way to learn "real" LaTeX. ![]()
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