General ⇒ elsarticle | Custom Nomenclature Formatting

[mgulin]

Hello friends.

I'm preparing a paper for review in one Elsevier journal, and got stuck on nomenclature list. Is there anybody here who knows how to do nomenclature list just like in picture below.

P.S. I use elsarticle document class.

Thanks!

[mgulin]

After some googling, it seems that I finally managed to solve the problem.

Here is the solution:

In preamble include:

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\usepackage{framed} % Framing content
\usepackage{multicol} % Multiple columns environment

\usepackage{nomencl} % Nomenclature package
\makenomenclature
\setlength{\nomitemsep}{-\parskip} % Baseline skip between items

\renewcommand*\nompreamble{\begin{multicols}{2}}
\renewcommand*\nompostamble{\end{multicols}}

In body type:

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\begin{table*}[!t]
  \begin{framed}
    \printnomenclature
  \end{framed}
\end{table*}

Here, table* environment is used to span nomenclature through two columns (in two-column paper).

Add nomenclature items:

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\nomenclature{$I_b$}{First item}
\nomenclature{$I_d$}{Second item}
\nomenclature{$I_r$}{Third item}

If you have odd number of nomenclature items, you may wanna add this item (as a last one):

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\nomenclature{\mbox{}}{}

Hope this is gonna help in future!