Hi, I just learned about TeX and it seems like just the solution I have been looking for. I have a collection of books which I want to add indexes and glossaries to. It looks like Latex is great for this. Additionally I know there will be a fair amount of shared glossary entries between books, I am hoping there is a way to expedite the process, something like a shared glossary (would be a dictionary at that point I guess) that I can borrow from to make individual glossaries.
I haven't even started learning how it all works yet, so I am posting just to get some certainty about using the right programs.
I have just installed TeX Live and the Tex Studio program packaged with my Linux distro. Should that do what I need or is there something else that would be better?
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Re: Suggestions for Shared Glossaries between books
Hi Chisao,
welcome to the forum!
Looks like you got what you need - the TeX Live software, and a suitable editor, also a good choice.
There's a very capable package for glossaries: https://ctan.org/pkg/glossaries It can do so much, that the documentation is huge. It's like learning LaTeX on one hand, and learning the glossaries package on the other hand.
Stefan
welcome to the forum!
Looks like you got what you need - the TeX Live software, and a suitable editor, also a good choice.
There's a very capable package for glossaries: https://ctan.org/pkg/glossaries It can do so much, that the documentation is huge. It's like learning LaTeX on one hand, and learning the glossaries package on the other hand.

Stefan
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