[Tex/LaTex] Glossary acronym without references

glossaries

Seems silly that I have to ask for such a simple thing but this glossary library is driving me up the wall. What I want to do is to simply display all the acronyms that I have defined after my table of content without having any references to them in my text. So something like this:

...
\usepackage[nonumberlist, acronym]{glossaries}
\newacronym{Foobar}{Foobar}{foo bar}
...
\begin{document}
    \tableofcontents
    \printglossaries
    ...
\end{document}

But no matter how I twist and turn the order it just doesn't display correctly. The few times I got it to display it somehow had ghost entries from previous test.

Best Answer

The \makeglossaries is necessary as well as \glsaddall to show all defined acronyms.

Compilation can be done with several methods, but the easiest way is (assuming the source file is called foo.tex)

pdflatex foo

makeglossaries foo

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[nonumberlist, acronym]{glossaries}
\newacronym{Foobar}{Foobar}{foo bar}
\newacronym{UNESCO}{Unesco}{United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization}
\makeglossaries
\begin{document}
\glsaddall
\tableofcontents
\printglossaries
\end{document}

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a simple example

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[acronym]{glossaries}
\makeglossaries

%from documentation
%\newacronym[⟨key-val list⟩]{⟨label ⟩}{⟨abbrv ⟩}{⟨long⟩}
%above is short version of this
% \newglossaryentry{⟨label ⟩}{type=\acronymtype,
% name={⟨abbrv ⟩},
% description={⟨long⟩},
% text={⟨abbrv ⟩},
% first={⟨long⟩ (⟨abbrv ⟩)},
% plural={⟨abbrv ⟩\glspluralsuffix},
% firstplural={⟨long⟩\glspluralsuffix\space (⟨abbrv ⟩\glspluralsuffix)},
% ⟨key-val list⟩}

\newacronym{cd}{CD}{compact disk}


\begin{document}
\noindent
First use \gls{cd}\\
subsequent \gls{cd}

\printglossaries

\end{document}

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glossaries supports multiple nomenclatures so you can still use something like this

\newglossaryentry{tree}{name={tree},
description={trees are the better humans}}

and because in the above case the type is automatically set to 'main' it will give you a second list called 'Nomenclature'

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[acronym]{glossaries}
\makeglossaries

%from documentation
%\newacronym[⟨key-val list⟩]{⟨label ⟩}{⟨abbrv ⟩}{⟨long⟩}
%above is short version of this
% \newglossaryentry{⟨label ⟩}{type=\acronymtype,
% name={⟨abbrv ⟩},
% description={⟨long⟩},
% text={⟨abbrv ⟩},
% first={⟨long⟩ (⟨abbrv ⟩)},
% plural={⟨abbrv ⟩\glspluralsuffix},
% firstplural={⟨long⟩\glspluralsuffix\space (⟨abbrv ⟩\glspluralsuffix)},
% ⟨key-val list⟩}

\newacronym{cd}{CD}{compact disk}

\newglossaryentry{tree}{name={tree},
    description={trees are the better humans}}

\begin{document}
\noindent
First use \gls{cd}\\
subsequent \gls{cd}

Nomenclature \gls{tree}

\printglossaries

\end{document}

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To finally get what you are after, you could use

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage[acronym]{glossaries}
\makeglossaries

%from documentation
%\newacronym[⟨key-val list⟩]{⟨label ⟩}{⟨abbrv ⟩}{⟨long⟩}
%above is short version of this
% \newglossaryentry{⟨label ⟩}{type=\acronymtype,
% name={⟨abbrv ⟩},
% description={⟨long⟩},
% text={⟨abbrv ⟩},
% first={⟨long⟩ (⟨abbrv ⟩)},
% plural={⟨abbrv ⟩\glspluralsuffix},
% firstplural={⟨long⟩\glspluralsuffix\space (⟨abbrv ⟩\glspluralsuffix)},
% ⟨key-val list⟩}

%\newacronym{api}{API}{Application Programming Interface }

%%% The glossary entry the acronym links to   
\newglossaryentry{apig}{name={API},
    description={An Application Programming Interface (API) is a particular set
of rules and specifications that a software program can follow to access and
make use of the services and resources provided by another particular software
program that implements that API}}

%%% define the acronym and use the see= option
\newglossaryentry{api}{type=\acronymtype, name={API}, description={Application
Programming Interface}, first={Application
Programming Interface (API)\glsadd{apig}}, see=[Glossary:]{apig}}
\begin{document}
\noindent
First use \gls{api}\\
subsequent \gls{api}
\newpage

\printglossary[type=\acronymtype]
%%% \newpage just to demonstrate that links are correct
\newpage
\printglossary[type=main]

\end{document}

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[Tex/LaTex] Glossary list without page number and acronym links to glossary

The see key puts the cross-reference in the location list (this is how both makeindex and xindy behave), so if you suppress the location list (using the nonumberlist option) this will also suppress the cross-reference. You can use the seeautonumberlist package option (with nonumberlist) to show the location list for just the entries that have the see key, but you will still get the locations listed for those entries as well as the cross-reference.

Instead, I suggest you just put the cross-reference inside the description and suppress the location list with nonumberlist:

\documentclass{scrreprt}
\usepackage[hidelinks]{hyperref}
\usepackage[toc,acronym,style=long]{glossaries} 
\makeglossaries    

%%%%%%%%%%%Glossary%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%    
\newglossaryentry{ctg}{name={CT},
    description={A medical imaging technique to investigate the
anatomy using x-rays}}

%%% define the acronym 
\newglossaryentry{ct}{type=\acronymtype,
 name={CT},
 description={Computed Tomography. \emph{Glossary:} \gls{ctg}},
 first={Computed Tomography (CT)\glsadd{ctg}}} 

\newglossaryentry{tomo}{name={Tomography},
    description={Imaging by sections through an object}}    

\begin{document}    

blah blah \gls{ct} blah

\glsadd{tomo}    
\printglossary[type=\acronymtype,nonumberlist]    
\printglossary[type=main]    
\end{document}

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