glossaries

glossaries package and footnote in LaTeX

Hello *, I am currently stuck, having two separate glossaries: main & acronyms. Acronyms glossary prints footnotes on first use in the text, but main glossary does not. Is there any way to make any other glossary than acronyms to print footnote on first use of the term? I don't get how to do it. Here is the code example compiled with T...

Exclude entry from glossary?

I'm using the glossaries package in LaTeX. I've got \gls{foo} in my document, but I don't want the entry for "foo" to appear in the glossary. How can I keep a working (i.e. expanding) \gls{foo} in the body of my document, but exclude the entry for "foo" from the glossary? EDIT: I want to use \gls{foo} to indicate "as used here, 'foo' ...

Include all entries / equivalent to nocite in latex glossaries package

Hi There, I'm trying to create a glossary using the glossaries package in latex. Is there a way to force all defined terms to appear in the output glossary, even if they are unused in the text? I see this as the equivalent to \nocite for glossary entries. Cheers, Ken. ...

Error using \Glsentrytext{} in section title.

When using the glossaries package in a LaTeX document I occasionally want to use a glossary entry as part of section or chapter title. For example: \section{\Glsentrytext{big}} This however results in an error. Trying to use \protect\Glsentrytext{} does not solve the the problem. Note that using the non-capitalized version (\glsent...

How to link to a glossary item (using package glossaries)

In my document i'm using the package glossaries to create a glossary. Everything works fine except that the is no link between the words in the text and the corresponding entry in my glossary (so you can click the word to be explained and get to the glossary entry). The most important parts of my document: %----Header---- ... \usepack...

[Latex Glossaries] How to generate output depending on whether or not a userkey has been defined.

I would like to modify the glossaryentryfield so that it creates output depending on whether or not user1 (key provided by the package has been defined/set or not. I tried the following: \renewcommand*{\glossaryentryfield}[5]{\bfseries{\glstarget{##1}{##2}} & ##3 \\ \ifempty{\glsentryuseri{##1}} it & is very empty \\ \else & \gl...