LaTeX forum ⇒ General ⇒ Capitalize first letter of names in Glossaries list

[stinkinrich88]

Hello,

I'm using the glossaries package. It prints my glossary at the end of the document, but all the entry names are in lowercase. I'd like to know how I can make the first letter of each entry name in the glossary uppercase. The same for the list of acronyms would also be appreciated.

Note: I don't want to know how to make the first letter uppercase in the text (I know about \Gls instead of \gls), only in the glossary list at the end.

Thanks,

Rich

[stinkinrich88]

Of course, I've tried the following code in my preamble:

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\renewcommand{\glsnamefont}[1]{\makefirstuc{#1}}

But I get several errors in my .acr file, saying I've got an extra } or forgotten a $....

Any ideas?

[nlct]

You need to redefine \glsnamefont:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[acronym]{glossaries}
 
\makeglossaries
 
\renewcommand{\glsnamefont}[1]{\makefirstuc{#1}}
 
\newglossaryentry{sample}{name=sample,description=a sample entry}
 
\newacronym{abc}{abc}{a sample acronym}
 
\begin{document}
 
\gls{sample}. \gls{abc}.
 
\printglossaries
\end{document}

However it looks a bit odd for an acronym to start with a capital and have the rest in lower case as it makes it look like an ordinary word. The following will make the acronym all upper case in the list of acronyms:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[acronym]{glossaries}
 
\makeglossaries
 
\newglossaryentry{sample}{name=sample,description=a sample entry}
 
\newacronym{abc}{abc}{a sample acronym}
 
\begin{document}
 
\gls{sample}. \gls{abc}.
 
\renewcommand{\glsnamefont}[1]{\makefirstuc{#1}}
\printglossary
 
\renewcommand{\glsnamefont}[1]{\MakeUppercase{#1}}
\printglossary[type=acronym]
\end{document}

You haven't mentioned if you are using the 'smallcaps' option. If you have and you are using a font that doesn't support bold small caps, then try:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[acronym,smallcaps]{glossaries}
 
\makeglossaries
 
\newglossaryentry{sample}{name=sample,description=a sample entry}
 
\newacronym{abc}{abc}{a sample acronym}
 
\begin{document}
 
\gls{sample}. \gls{abc}.
 
\renewcommand{\glsnamefont}[1]{\makefirstuc{#1}}
\printglossary
 
\renewcommand{\glsnamefont}[1]{\textmd{#1}}
\printglossary[type=acronym]
\end{document}

Regards
Nicola Talbot

[stinkinrich88]

Oh wow, thanks a lot! You covered just about everything, there!

I found out why I was getting an error with \makefirstuc: there are math symbols in my list of acronyms. E.g. I have an entry like this:

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\newacronym{velocity}{$\sigma$}{node velocity}

However, I would still like to use \makefirstuc in my list of acronyms as some of my acronyms are displayed in smallcaps and I'd like the first letter to be bigcaps. All other acronyms are defined in capital letters anyway, so it shouldn't look strange.

E.g. I have like DTN, RWP, opnet (this is displayed in small caps, but I want the o to be big).

Just a small annoyance, though. If you know the answer I'd love to hear it!

Thanks again,

Rich

[nlct]

I found out why I was getting an error with \makefirstuc: there are math symbols in my list of acronyms. E.g. I have an entry like this:

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\newacronym{velocity}{$\sigma$}{node velocity}

You could try

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\newacronym{velocity}{\null$\sigma$}{node velocity}

(The upper casing is then applied to \null so it has no effect.) It might be an idea to set the sort key in this instance. Example:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[acronym,smallcaps]{glossaries}
 
\makeglossaries
 
\newglossaryentry{sample}{name=sample,description=a sample entry}
 
\newacronym{abc}{abc}{a sample acronym}
\newacronym[sort=sigma]{velocity}{\null$\sigma$}{node velocity}
 
\begin{document}
 
\gls{sample}. \gls{abc}. \gls{velocity}.
 
\renewcommand{\glsnamefont}[1]{\makefirstuc{#1}}
\printglossary
 
\renewcommand{\glsnamefont}[1]{\textmd{\makefirstuc{#1}}}
\printglossary[type=acronym]
\end{document}

Regards
Nicola Talbot

[stinkinrich88]

Ace! Thanks a lot. I really enjoy your Glossaries package

[localghost]

Now that the problem is solved, please be so kind and mark the topic accordingly as described in Section 3 of the Board Rules. You are not new to the forum so by now you should know that.


Best regards
Thorsten

[omrik]

I'm trying to do something slightly different.

I would like to define the acronym in the text using lowercase letters as follows:
sample acronym (SA)
degrees of freedom (DOF)
While recurrences will be displayed as:
SA
DOF

but, at the acronyms list, I would like it to appear with uppercase letters as:
SA - Sample Acronym
DOF - Degrees of Freedom

Using your code with the following slight changes, I can't get it right:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[acronym]{glossaries}
 
\makeglossaries
 
\newglossaryentry{sample}{name=sample,description=a sample entry}
 
\newacronym{sa}{SA}{Sample Acronym}
 
\newacronym{dof}{DOF}{Degrees of Freedom}
 
\begin{document}
 
This is a \gls{sample}. And this is a \gls{sa} while another one will be \gls{dof}.
Recurrences are \gls{sa} and \gls{dof}.
 
\renewcommand{\glsnamefont}[1]{\makefirstuc{#1}}
\printglossary
 
\printglossary[type=acronym,style = super]
\end{document}

Help will be appreciated.