General ⇒ Include List of Abbreviations in Front Matter

[abr]

Hello,

I am fairly new to Latex, however I generally feel comfortable using it. I have one problem I cannot seem to fix, however. I am not sure the best section for this question, so I apologize if this is not in the right place.

I am finishing my thesis and I have used a .cls provided by my university (but not supported, i.e. they won't help me solve this). I am having trouble including a list of abbreviations. For other similar frontmatter, such as table of contents and list of figures, simply uncomment lines of text included in a template (see code below), however they do not have an option for list of abbreviations. I am using the acronym package, so I can include the list using \input{acronyms} in the main matter, however this compiles as a list of acronyms under the section List of Figures. I would like to include this similarly to the methods used to include the list of figures.

The class file I am using is ubcthesis.cls, which appears to use genthesis.cls. I am happy to change the .cls, however I am not sure how to do this and I'm not sure it is necessary.

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\tableofcontents        %% Mandatory
\listoftables          %% Mandatory if thesis has tables
\listoffigures         %% Mandatory if thesis has figures

Does anyone have a suggestion on how to handle this or a resource which might show me what I need? Thank you very much for your help,

AB

[kaiserkarl13]

You might be able to do it by putting the list of acronyms inside its own \section* or \chapter*. You might also check out the "float" package, which defines a new \listof command that can be customized.

The nomencl package might help, though that's designed for lists of symbols, not acronyms.