Document Classes ⇒ [Glossaries] Making acronym entries link to glossary entries

[robbiie]

Hi all,

since a few days I busy myself in trying to find a solution to the following problem:

I'm using the glossaries package for creating a glossary and a list of acronyms in my document.

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\usepackage[style=altlist,
nonumberlist,
numberedsection,
acronym,
toc]
{glossaries}

I defined an acronym, e.g.

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\newacronym{POS}{POS}{Part Of Speech}

and a separate glossary entry, e.g.

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\newglossaryentry{pos}{name=Part Of Speech,description={"`Part of speech"' Description}}

Now, what I would like to have, is the following:

When I reference an acronym in my text using

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\gls{pos}

I would like it to be added in the list of acronyms stating that pos stands for "PART OF SPEECH", which is no problem. But, at the same time, I would like the "PART OF SPEECH" description to link to the glossary entry of "pos".

I don't find any clue on how to do this - neither in the documentation, nor in the FAQs of glossaries.

Can anyone help, please?
Thanks,
Robbiie

[nlct]

Hi,

Try

\newacronym{POS}{POS\glsadd{pos}}{Part Of Speech}

Regards
Nicola Talbot

[robbiie]

Hi Nicola,

very nice of you to answer yourself. Thanks

If I understand your documentation correcty, \glsadd means just to statically add an entry to the glossary without any hyper links. Unfortunately that's not what I want. I'd rather have the following:

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\newacronym{POS}{POS}{\glslink{pos}{Part of Speech}}

or

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\newacronym{POS}{\glslink{pos}{POS}}{Part of Speech}

so that I can follow a link from the table of acronyms to the according glossary entry. Trying both statements results in compile errors, since - i guess - it's not possible to nest \glslink in any other command.

Regards,
Robbiie

[nlct]

Hi,

sorry I misunderstood. Is the following what you want?

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\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[colorlinks]{hyperref}
\usepackage[style=altlist,
nonumberlist,
numberedsection,
acronym,
toc]
{glossaries}

\makeglossaries

\newglossaryentry{pos}{name=\glslink{POS}{Part Of Speech},text=Part of Speech,description={``Part of Speech''
 Description}}
\newacronym[description={\glslink{pos}{Part of Speech}}]{POS}{POS}{Part Of
 Speech}

\begin{document}

\gls{POS}

\printglossaries

\end{document}

Note that for the above example you will need to do:

pdflatex filename
makeglossaries filename
pdflatex filename
makeglossaries filename
pdflatex filename

to get the completed document. (This is because pos isn't referenced in the main body of the document, so it won't be referenced until the list of acronyms is present.)

Regards
Nicola Talbot

[robbiie]

Hi Nicola,

that's exactly what I wanted! Thanks a lot!!!!

[amarradi]

Hallo together,

thats a cool board, Thanks. I need help.
I use this tutorial and it runs very well. How can i sort my glossary, tike the Acronym-List?

Many greeting from germany

Bye amarradi

[nlct]

How can i sort my glossary, tike the Acronym-List?

You need to use an external indexing application to sort the glossary. You can either use makeindex or xindy. If you have Perl installed, you can just run the makeglossaries script with the name of your document without the .tex extension.

Regards
Nicola Talbot

[TeddyNall]

can u give me a zithromax link to the perl script?

[localghost]

can u give me a link to the perl script?

The Perl script is part of the glossaries package. Install it by the package manager of your TeX distribution. With Strawberry Perl you can install a free interpreter for Wind0ws.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten