Questions tagged [glossaries-extra]
{glossaries-extra} is used to tag questions regarding the glossaries-extra package.
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subref failing when glossaries package is loaded
I use \subref from the subcaption package to reference subfigures in the figure's caption. However, after updating my LaTeX installation, I now find that this fails. It appears to be a problem with ...
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How to use some bib2gls entries of a specific group in the text but exclude them from being printed in the list of symbols?
For the following, is there a way to ignore printing the symbol records of group = {CylindricalCoordinatesGroup} in the list of symbols while keeping them rendered in the text?
GlossaryEntries.bib
@...
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How to make the term command interact with the glossaries-extra package
I have customized the \yiming and \newterm commands to handle term translations, and they work properly. Now I want to further integrate them with the glossaries-extra package to automatically collect ...
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Combining footnotes and nested glossary entries, breaks hyperlinks (i.e. A glossary link in a glossary description, itself, located in a footnote ! )
I'm attempting to combine glossaries-extras and footnotes, where the description of a given glossary entry should be put as a footnote upon first appearence.
I've almost made it to work, however my ...
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Using glossaries-extra to define an entry accepting a parameter results in a leading dot
I'm using glossaries-extra to define glossaries entries accepting parameters. To what I gathered from the glossaries documentation along with the fourth method of this post, I ended up with the ...
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Glossaries extra, ignore hypperref link format
Hey so my intent is to use gls but leave formatting to usage so that when I use for example \emph{\gls{entry}} its displayed using \emph format instead of hyperref or \glstextformat. Also obviously I ...
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List of abbreviations with nonumberlist but hyperlink to first use
In my thesis, I would like to create a list of abbreviations in LaTeX using glossaries or glossaries-extra where the entries do not include page numbers (nonumberlist). However, the hyperlink that ...
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Generation of .glstex file with bib2gls fails
while using the packages glossaries-extra and with the option bib2gls, the file mydocument.glstex is not generated. The file method has worked previously, but it currently only generates the following ...
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3 Package glossaries-extra warnings and empty glossary
I'm trying to make a glossary using bib2gls. However, when I compile (using PDFLaTeX in TeXmaker on Ubuntu) only an empty glossary is produced and I get the three warnings
Package glossaries-extra ...
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Symbol glossary of glossaries-extra does not change the chapter mark
It is probably a bug, but I hope some of you experts can at least help me with a quick-fix because everyhing I tried myself failed.
I want to create a symbol glossary as a chapter using the glossaries-...
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how to combine tikz/tikzuml with gls
Following MWE:
\documentclass{article}
\begin{filecontents}{defis.bib}
% Encoding: UTF-8
@entry{sometool,
name={SomeTool},
description={A fictive tool.}
}
\end{filecontents}
\usepackage[utf8]{...
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List of Symbols with Units and Group Names
I'm trying to create an alphabetically ordered list of symbols with two groups, Latin and Greek, with an additional unit column. At the moment I'm using this code
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{...
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Glossaries fails to load on filenames that contain dot (`.`)
When I try to use glossaries on a file that has the dot symbol on its name i get an error
Compiling the same file but without the . in the filename results in no errors. The reason why having . on ...
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glossaries packages: running versions and documentation mismatch
The package glossaries comes with a lot of documentation.
In my current texlive installation log shows:
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/glossaries-extra/glossaries-extra.sty
Package: glossaries-extra 2025/...
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Glossaries in amsart not wroking for more than one entry
In my AMSART article with \usepackage[toc,section=section]{glossaries}, \makeglossaries with \printglossaries is not generating any glossaries, and \makenoidxglossaries with \printnoidxglossaries is ...
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Are there any known conflicts when using hyperref, glossaries-extra, biblatex, and titlesec?
I am working on a long project that involves both a bibliography and a glossary. When I open the PDF and click the bookmark for the bibliography, it takes me to the glossary. The same happens if I ...
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glossaries-extra: Multiple Glossaries
I am trying to create multiple glossaries on overleaf.
The document compiles without any error, but the glossaries are not printed. I have tried this and this answer from the community but none of ...
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Correct usage of `first` for acronyms in `glossaries-extra`
I am using the glossaries-extra package with the following code:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{glossaries-extra}
% \setabbreviationstyle[acronym]{long-short}
\makeglossaries{}
\newacronym[...
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glossaries-extra style topic breaks paragraph in description of \newlineglossaryentry
I have been experimenting with using glossaries-extra for a project and have found it very useful, except I have encountered an issue that I have been unable to overcome.
I have narrowed it down to ...
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glossaries-extra does not load from .bib
terms.bib
@entry{set,
name={set},
description={a collection of any kind of objects},
symbol={\ensuremath{\mathcal{S}}}
}
@entry{function,
name={function},
description=
{a ...
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bib2gls: reverse order of dual-abbrventry-backlink
I'm using bib2gls for abbreviations and definitions in my projects. I've just enabled the dual-abbrventry-backlink option, and I wish to reverse the order in which the backlink is made.
Instead of the ...
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TeXLive 2025 causes error in datatool when using pdfx + glossaries-extra
After updating to TeXLive 2025 (specifically MacTeX), glossaries-extra together with pdfx causes an error in datatool:
Rc files read: .latexmkrc Latexmk: This is Latexmk, John Collins, 27 Dec. 2024. ...
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glossaries-extra wrong sorting of greek letters with bib2gls
I'm currently working on my glossary and using bib2gls with glossaries-extra to automatically sort alphabetically. It works for Roman letters, but it sorts Greek letters incorrectly.
Here’s a minimal ...
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glossaries-extra: reset first use flag for abbreviations belonging to certain category
I have a document split in two parts on different parts (topics). I'm occasionally using abbreviations from the field of part II in part I, but like to reset the first use flag at the beginning of ...
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Glossaries, capitalization and custom macro: Incomplete \ifcat error
I wrote a macro to parse alphanumeric labels and easily tuning styles and spacing, starting from this answer: https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/233227
Those labels are used as names in glossaries.
As ...
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Printing a merged glossary
I have a document that defines normative terms separately from other terms (and also defines acronyms). I want to print the normative glossary in one place in the document and a complete list of all ...
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Capitalise entries in glossaries-extra
I'm using the Latex glossaries-extra package and outputting my glossary using printnoidxglossary. The names of the glossary entries are all lower case, because that's how I want them to appear when I ...
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How to make \orcidlinkc work in \newabbreviation?
I want to put a long orcidlink# in a \newabbreviation.
While this works:
\documentclass[]{article}
\usepackage{orcidlink}
\usepackage[
automake,
acronyms, abbreviations, shortcuts=ac, nonumberlist, ...
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Problem with longtable-style section glossaries printing an empty line
I'm writing a document with some fairly extensive cross-referencing, and with a lot of help from various related posts on this forum and others, I have glossaries-extra with bib2gls working fairly ...
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How to make an first use of abbreviation be expanded in a footnote (glossaries-extra)?
I am using several closely related abbreviations, all of which are first used in the same paragraph. I'd like the first one to be expanded in the text (short-long), but the others to use the short ...
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printglossary doesnt work if czech symbols are in the glossary
EDIT: Added MWE
I can't seem to find fix for my problem, so I'll try to ask here. Any help will be appreciated.
I am working on my UNI thesis template and everything seems to be working great except ...
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How can I utilize non-default symbols in my glossary?
I'd like to insert an uppercase \Chi into my symbols glossary, but for some reason only the lowercase version works (a MWE is below). However, though an error is thrown, the document compiles on ...
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glossaries-extra: using both groups and page numbers
I want to combine a typical list of acronyms and a separate grouped list of symbols. After trying several solutions with the base glossaries package, I found that the glossaries-extra offers the ...
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Removing empty page before acronyms list in openright memoir class
I am writing my thesis using the memoir class with the following options:
\documentclass[12pt,a4paper,twoside,openright,oldfontcommands]{memoir}
I am looking to print the acronyms list without a ...
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Solving interaction between glossaries-extra and fancyhdr
I'm writing a PhD thesis in Spanish using LaTeX, and I have encountered an unexpected issue. I tried to add the chapter title in the header (using fancyhdr) in lowercase. I also have some sections ...
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How do I define a different case of the long form of an abbreviation in glossaries?
I am using the glossaries package for glossary entries and abbreviations.
In the English language that is pretty easy but other languages (e.g. German) inflect words depending on the casus.
I have ...
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Is there a version of \glsresetall that allows me to reset all abbreviations temporarily?
I want to use \glsresetall in a figure caption in my overleaf document, and then have it go back to the previous gls counts afterward. ie, I only want abbreviations to be redefined in the figure ...
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glossaries + glossaries-extra cause "TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [parameter stack size=32767]" [closed]
I have a weird error regarding the usage of the glossaries and glossaries-extra packages:
I'm using a thesis template of TU Berlin, which works totally fine on Overleaf. Now, I tried to setup VSCode ...
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Capitalise only first letter in list of symbols list using glossaries-extra package
I want to have the first letter of the list of "Symbols, Greek Letters, Sub- & Superscripts" also capitalised per default. With the acroym list "Abbreviations and Acronyms" it ...
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How to sort list of abbreviations in LaTeX
I finished writing my thesis and wanted to generate a list of abbreviations at the end of the document. This is my code:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{acronym}
\begin{document}
\chapter{...
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How to change hyperlink target for dual glossary entries?
I'm working on my thesis and was initially using the basic glossaries package, and recently switched over to glossaries-extras for its more robust handling of multiple glossaries. I have a list of ...
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glossaries-extra remove in-text hyperlinks after first occurrence
Hi there while using glossaries-extra, I could benefit from the extra feature of having links for each first appearance of a new definition/acronym to the respective Glossary or Acronyms section. This ...
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Why does glossaries-extra "\glsxtrshot" is not working while just few lines above in the same paragraph, it does?
As shown in the pics, the \glstrshort doesn't work all the time, more unfortunately, it fails most of the time.
Looking at the example of PPD, it works on the top of the first pic, but fails at the ...
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Is there a way to make glossary entries whitout printing this entry as is in the text? [duplicate]
I am using the glossary to make a listing of symbols in my file, but I got the following problem: some times symbols appear in the text with very specific arguments, one example is the following:
$$\...
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List of Symbols and List of Abbreviations
Since all questions I could find to this matter are really old and not really helpful (please correct me if I'm wrong, I just couldn't find anything useful on this matter!) I'm starting a new question....
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Vietnamese alphabetical sorting with glossaries-extra
I've got a problem with sorting glossary entries in my paper as follows: đ is supposed to come before p, but glossaries-extra doesn't recognize that.
Here is my MWE:
\documentclass[12pt, a4paper, ...
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Managing acronyms in bilingual document
I have a (big) document, mostly in english, with few chapters in french. I compile with pdfLaTeX. I use glossaries-extra (heavily) to define acronyms, and I would like to achieve the following:
print ...
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Glossaries-extra error with utf-8 encoding glossary entry
I use glossaries-extra package to write my Glossary page, and it works well with English however when I insert an entry with utf-8 encoding, it raises an error.
Here is my MWE:
\documentclass{article}
...
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Broken footnotebackref's links to footnotes inside glossary made with longtable
I have created a glossary style (based on existing style). It does not possess the more severe issues with footnotes that my previous approaches did. Nevertheless, one footnote-related problem ...
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Enforcing Custom Long/Short Versions in glossaries-extra
I've set up a custom glossaries-extra configuration. I've defined custom commands named customLongVersion and customShortVersion which are being used inside the \glsentryfmt command. However, I'm ...