Document Classes ⇒ List of symbols problem

[Toby]

Hello guys!

I have a little problem to get a list of symbols. I found and uses the listofsymbols package, and it is working so far. But as soon as I use mathematical Symbols in the Symbol description it screws up. Here a little example:

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\documentclass[a4paper, oneside, 12pt]{book}

\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amsfonts}
\usepackage[draft]{listofsymbols}
   
\opensymdef
    \newsym[small e]{syme}{e}
    \newsym[$\mathcal{P}_S$ is the speaker period]{mcalP}{\mathcal{P}_S}
\closesymdef
    
\begin{document}
    \listofsymbols
    
    test: \syme
\end{document}

without the \mathcal use everything works fine. When I compile I get more or less an Undefined control sequence error, but if explicitly use mathmode it doesn't work either. Does anybody know the problem cause? Is it a problem with the mathmode?
I really spent alread a lot of time trying to fix this.

Any help would be highly appreciated.

Toby

P.S: I don't want to use the symbol in reality for describing its meaning, it is just an example .

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Toby,

welcome to the board!
You could prevent the expansion if \mathcal by \noexpand, then it should be compilable:

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\newsym[$\noexpand\mathcal{P}_S$ is the speaker period]{mcalP}{\noexpand\mathcal{P}_S}

Stefan

[Toby]

Hi Stefan,

thank you very much!

Greetz