Document Classes ⇒ Nomenclatuer by Chapter

[renno]

Good day everybody,

How could I separate my nomenclature into sub-groups by chapter, and then have a sub-sub-group for the superscripts, subscripts, variables, symbols, etc...?

I found the following code for separating the nomenclature into subscripts, etc...

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\@ifundefined{nomgroup}{}
{	\setlength{\nomitemsep}{-\parsep}
 	\renewcommand{\nomgroup}[1]
  {%
  	\medskip%
   	\ifthenelse{\equal{#1}{A}}{\relax}%
			{\ifthenelse{\equal{#1}{G}}{\item []\hspace*{-\leftmargin}\emph{Symbols}\hfill\smallskip}%
      	{\ifthenelse{\equal{#1}{B}}{\item []\hspace*{-\leftmargin}\emph{Subscripts}\hfill\smallskip}%
        	{\ifthenelse{\equal{#1}{C}}{\item []\hspace*{-\leftmargin}\emph{Conventions}\hfill\smallskip}%
          	{\ifthenelse{\equal{#1}{T}}{\item []\hspace*{-\leftmargin}\emph{Superscripts}\hfill\smallskip}{}%
						}%
					}%
				}%
			}%
	}% \nomgroup
}% @ifundefined

It seams that doing it by chapter through nesting is the hard way, and there must be an easier method...

Your help would be appreciated...

Thanks,

Jamil Renno
Virginia Tech

[gmedina]

Hi,

have you tried using the glossaries package?

[renno]

Hey gmedina,

Thanks for the reply. The package seems amazing, very flexible with lots of options. For getting multiple nomenclature lists, one should define a glossary type for every chapter, and then use it when defining the term. The package lacks a MWE with it to show how it could be compiled especially that a Perl file by the package author has to be compiled to produce the desired results...

Thanks,

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi,

you don't need to run the perl script, you could call makeindex directly, the perl script just gives some comfort.

Stefan

[renno]

I am sorry, but this does not seem to work. I am using MikTeX 2.7 and TexnicCenter. I run LaTeX, MakeIndex, then LaTeX, but I cannot obtain the list of nomenclature. Please see the MWE...

Thanks,

[Stefan Kottwitz]

You did not use that glossar entry inside the text and you did not give it a name. I would do this inside the preamble, you may use \glsaddall:

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\newglossaryentry{$a$}{name=a,description={nice variable}}%
\glsaddall

Stefan

[renno]

Hey Stefan,

My original purpose was to generate a list of nomenclature for variables and symbols I use in my equations. That's why I was originally using the nomencl package. The problem there was that I could not have subgroups for each chapter inside my nomenclature list, and that's the aim of my first post. I am afraid the glossaries package cannot handle mathematicall text...

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

[Stefan Kottwitz]

I am afraid the glossaries package cannot handle mathematicall text.

I don't think so. Try:

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\newglossaryentry{pi}{name=$\pi$,description={mathematical constant}}

Stefan