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[Onurb]

Hi guys, i want to include an index of abbreviations into my document and I tried it with 2 easy ways but neither of them look like I want it to look. I tried the following options:

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\chapter*{Abkürzungsverzeichnis}
 
\begin{tabular}{ll}
	\textbf{HSLU} & Hochschule Luzern \\
	\textbf{USZ} & Universitätsspital Zürich \\
\end{tabular}
 
\begin{description}
	\item[HSLU] Hochschule Luzern
	\item[USZ] Universitätsspital Zürich
\end{description}

This looks like that:

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What i want is a mixture between those. The second row should start in 1 line as in the table. But the first row should start completely at the left side of the document as in the desription method. Does somebody know a way how to do that? I already tried \flushleft before the table but this doesn work.

Thanks already for your replies.

Greez Onurb

[kaiserkarl13]

If you want it the way you say it, try this one:

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\chapter*{Abkürzungsverzeichnis}
 
    \begin{description}
        \item[HSLU]} Hochschule Luzern
        \begin{description}
           \item[USZ] Universit\"atsspital Z\"urich
        \end{description}
    \end{description}

If you actually want it as in the first example, except flush to the left margin, use \noindent before the tabular environment (the table is treated as a single box, but it's still indented because the paragraph is).

In general, avoid making explicit formatting for such things---it's much harder to change it later or be consistent if you do it on a per-item basis. Define a new environment or a new command, and you can tweak it later if you need to.

[Onurb]

If you want it the way you say it, try this one:

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\chapter*{Abkürzungsverzeichnis}
 
    \begin{description}
        \item[HSLU]} Hochschule Luzern
        \begin{description}
           \item[USZ] Universitätsspital Zürich
        \end{description}
    \end{description}

If you actually want it as in the first example, except flush to the left margin, use \noindent before the tabular environment (the table is treated as a single box, but it's still indented because the paragraph is).

This Code doesnt work out for me, it shifts the second row to the right. But the \noindent is what I was looking for. Thank you! It is also way easier to change later on if I change my mind^^

[kaiserkarl13]

It was supposed to indent the second one (you said that was what you wanted).

If this is for a "list of symbols," you might check out the nomencl package, which uses the makeindex program to update the nomenclature in a well-defined way that links back to the text.