Text Formatting ⇒ How to change the format of nomenclature.

[adou89]

I am writing my thesis and trying to change the nomenclature title itself to center and a smaller font to match the format of the rest of the thesis.
Thanks a lot

[Johannes_B]

Hin and welcome,

i have absolutely no idea how to change it. There are about 5 commonly used packages out there to generate a nomenclature.
Please provide a minimal working example to show us what you are using and how you are using it.

[adou89]

Hello, thanks so much for the quick reply.
I am currently using the package nomencl and I read the document and have no idea how to change the format.
I am new to Latex but I have to use latex for thesis.
I have a latex template which is very complicated to me to read and there is no nomenclature included so I have to write my own. I guess the problem is that the .sty doc did not give the proper format for nomenclature. Here I attaches the .sty doc.
Thanks again for your time.

[Johannes_B]

Can you make a compilable small test case for the helpers? The package should use a standard heading which seems to be ok if you load nomencl after asuthesis.

[adou89]

I attaches the compiled file here.
Clearly the nomenclature title itself is not following the format. But the contents do follow the format.

[Johannes_B]

Can you please provide some code (follow the link in my last post) so i can actually reproduce the behaviour and provide a solution?

[adou89]

Sure.
This is the whole sample file and I add one nomenclature entry and print it at the beginning of the doc.
The main doc is dis.tex
Thanks very much for your time and sorry for the trouble I made

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Welcome to the forum!

You could insert this in your preamble:

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\makeatletter
\renewcommand{\@makeschapterhead}[1]{%
  \begin{center}
    \uppercase\expandafter{#1}\vspace{\baselineskip}
  \end{center}
}
\makeatother

It produces a centered uppercased chapter heading for unnumbered chapters, which applies to the nomenclature heading and to further \chapter* headings. The code is made similar to the chapter code. The style file does make the contents headings in a different way but I think with the same intention.

Stefan

[Johannes_B]

Stefan was faster here, but while i was looking at it, i noticed that the package of your university requires the user to load packages. This is bad style, the package should take care that the packages it needs are loaded, hence less headache for the users.

[adou89]

Thanks very much Johannes_B~! You rely me so many times!
And Stefan_K, your code works well~ Thanks a lot!