General ⇒ How to integrate a customized chapter?

[carol]

Hi,
I have a list of abbreviations that comes after the list of Tables in my document. First, I don't know how to make a customized title (like chapter title, bold, big font size, unnumbered...) for "list of abbreviations". Second, it's List of tables that appear on the pages of "list of abbreviation". So this customized title should replace the title "list of Tables" the pages of "list of abbreviation".

Moreover, I get page numbering problem in the table of contents perhaps because the "list of abbreviation" that is not considered as a separate or independent chapter. that is, in the table of contents I get

List of Figures 3
List of Tables 5
List of Abbreviations 6
chapter1 4

cheers,

[phi]

Hello,
before trying to do everything manually, consider using one of the many packages that provide complete solution for this kind of lists. A quite flexible one is the glossaries package.

[carol]

I installed glossaries package and every thing seemed to be fine. Although glossaries.sty is in /usr/share/texmf/texmf/tex/latex/glossaries/base, on use of /usepackage{glossaries}, I get

File `glossaries.sty' not found.

How could the file be found by latex in the right directory?

[localghost]

Don't forget to update the file name database by a texhash in a terminal. Afterwards check whether the package file can be found in the directory tree.

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kpsewhich glossaries.sty

Best regards
Thorsten¹

[carol]

I did update the database
texhash texmf
texhash: Updating /usr/share/texmf/texmf/ls-R...
texhash: Done.

kpsewhich glossaries.sty
gives nothing

cheers,

carol

[phi]

Which distribution and OS are you running?
Normally, texhash doesn't need a directory name, simply run it as root without options.
And, above all, avoid copying any files to /usr/share manually, they will be deleted during your next update (on Linux at least). Use a tree in /usr/local or in your home directory.

[carol]

I use linux, FC10

I followed the installation instructions on http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/tex/ ... es/INSTALL. As stated, I installed in /usr/share/ and also texhash is used with option ~/texmf/.

Nevertheless, I installed glossaries in /usr/local and used texhash without option. it doesn't help the situation: File `glossaries.sty' not found

[carol]

Do you advise any thing else that should be done?

[phi]

The double texmf in /usr/share/texmf/texmf/ seems to be a bit weird. Try putting the files in ~/texmf/tex/latex/glossaries without running texhash. If you have TeX Live 2008, please use the package manager instead.

[carol]

Now glossaries package is functional.

How is it possible now to define a chapter without a title of "list of Abbreviation" without numbering nor predceding by "Chapter"?

Moreover, how is it possible to define the width between the acronym (short form) to long description without using dots (like \glslistdottedwidth but without dotting)?

A general question is that if nomencl and acronym packages would do the job that I specified (just a list of abbreviation)? Does acronym sort the entries (like nomencl with [prefix])? How to fix the width between short and long forms of acronyms with nomencl and acronym packages?