I am trying to insert a glossary into a latex document using the glossaries
package. I would like to separate out the list of acronyms from the list of definitions. My understanding is that this is normally achieved with two calls: i) one to \printglossary[type=\acronymtype]
for the acronyms and ii) one to \printglossary
for the definitions.
The issue I am running into is that the two aforementioned variations on calls to \printglossary
both seem to produce the same thing — a list of all acronyms and all definitions combined. I illustrate below a minimum working example of the problem, in code and in output.
Code:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[nomain,xindy,acronym,toc]{glossaries}
\makeglossaries
\newacronym{abc}{ABC}{Ay Bee See}
\newacronym{def}{DEF}{Dee Eee Eff}
\newacronym{ghi}{GHI}{Gee Hach Eye}
\newglossaryentry{onetwothree}
{
name={One Two Three},
description={The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog}
}
\begin{document}
Here is some text
\gls{abc}, \gls{def}, \gls{ghi}, \gls{onetwothree}
\printglossary[type=\acronymtype]
\printglossary
\end{document}
Output:
Note I made a call to makeglossaries <filename_without_extension>
on the terminal before compiling the example code. What am I doing wrong?
Best Answer
The
nomain
package option suppresses the creation of the main (default) glossary. This means that there's only one glossary (theacronym
glossary) which becomes the new default glossary, so\glsdefaulttype
and\acronymtype
expand to the same glossary label. Since\printglossary
is equivalent to\printglossary[type=\glsdefaulttype]
this means that\printglossary
and\printglossary[type=\acronymtype]
are displaying the same glossary (theacronym
glossary).Since you want two separate glossaries, remove the
nomain
package option.