Math & Science ⇒ nomencl | Multiple Columns for List of Abbreviations

[BoudewijnD]

Hi,

Rounding up my thesis now. I would like to make a list of abbreviations at the beginning of my thesis. I found the nomencl package that will probably do the trick. But I want the \printnomenclature to have a different layout: 4 columns like in this example

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and I also would like less space in between the abbreviations. I read the documentation of nomencl but I could not get it working. Anyone how can point me in the right direction?

\BoudewijnD

[localghost]

The nomencl manual introduces two macros that you can use to influence the appearance of your list. Together with the multicol package you can try something like these lines in the preamble of your document.

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\renewcommand*{\nompreamble}{\begin{multicols}{2}}
\renewcommand*{\nompostamble}{\end{multicols}}
\setlength{\columnsep}{3em}

It is suggestive to add some space between the columns like done in the last line of the above code snippet. For further customization refer to Section 4 of the package manual. In this case you could modify the length \nomlabelwidth or simply give an optional parameter to the \printnomenclature command to decrease the separating space between an item and its description.

P.S.: Very good minimal example.


Thorsten

[BoudewijnD]

Thanx Thorsten,

This did the trick. I added this code to also change the space between the list.

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\renewcommand*{\nompreamble}{\begin{multicols}{2}}
\renewcommand*{\nompostamble}{\end{multicols}}
\setlength{\columnsep}{3em}
\setlength{\nomitemsep}{0.01cm}

One short question.
Can I just make a file for all the abbreviations and include this to the main file??

\BoudewijnD

PS: I found out you get better and faster help when you include a new a good MWE.