Adding automated glossary (\glossaries)

[JanWaldhorn]

First of all, this is a beautiful template! Thanks for that. For my thesis I need several abbreviations (acronyms) and symbols, which I want to process and list automatically.

Following this document document , I made the necessary settings for this with the package glossaries. Since I suspect that some others will have to work with abbreviations and/or symbols and the corresponding directories in their work, I suggest my draft as basis for a possible implementation.

The package will be included in my-thesis-setup.tex and the style will be defined there. In content\glossar.tex the single acronyms / symbols are defined and the directories are initiated. These appear if the element was used in the text (see modified content\chapter-introduction.tex) In the attached minimal example I have deleted everything else or commented it out in my-thesis.tex.

cleanthesis_glossary.pdf cleanthesis-incl-example_v0.4.0_glossary.zip

[sineadsayo]

First of all, thank you very much for creating this glossary! When I compile it alone, it works, but as soon as I intergrate it in my whole clean-thesis code the glossary page remains white. Is there anything I have to keep in mind? Best regards

[JanWaldhorn]

Hi. Glad it helps. Do you have the respective references in the code (e.g. chapter-introduction.tex, \gls{spsp})? Note that the glossary is only created by entries that are also used in the text. Another idea is to actively run makeglossaries.exe. Best regards

[sineadsayo]

Thanks for your quick reply. I'm currently writing my bachelor thesis and so I'm a bit under time pressure but I would love to use your professional looking glossar. Yes I've integrated the the code of your chapter-introduction.tex, that's why I'm wondering. I'm not sure how to run makeglossaries.exe, but I've downloaded now the package gloassaries. Strangely enough it worked before without it with your version. Unfortunately I have still a blank page. Thanks in advance and best regards

[JanWaldhorn]

Hi. Having the necessary packages installed is always a good idea. Under Win 10 with TexLive (not so relevant) and TexStudio as environment I create makeglossaries.exe "my-thesis" using "tools" -> "glossary(F9)". In other environments it should work similar. If that doesn't help, I could take a look at your example when you upload it here.

[sineadsayo]

Thank you so much!! That worked for me :)

[atifraza]

@JanWaldhorn please, could you update your contribution based on the latest version? Thanks.

[JanWaldhorn]

Hi @atifraza I am currently very busy. If I remember correctly, only the .sty file needs to be replaced...

[vicruiser]

Hi,

I have the same problem @sineadsayo had but in my case I'm working with overleaf.

When running your code on overleaf it works fine. But if I try to copy the parts of the glossary code, then the list of glossary is empty... And I get no hint of why in the log file.

Anyone with the same issue? any recommendation?

[vicruiser]

So... the issue was this https://github.com/overleaf/overleaf/issues/171 My compilation file wasn't in the root folder... Thanks for the code! it works very nicely