[Tex/LaTex] How to add acronym list

glossaries

I want to add an list of acronyms that I can reference to continously in the text.

Say if I write in the glossary \newacronym{ny}{NY}{New York} NY will appear in the document when I type \gls{ny}.

I have the following code in the preamble:

\usepackage[acronym]{glossaries}
\makeglossaries

And inside the document where i want to place the list i type:

\printglossary[type=\acronymtype,title=Acronyms]

\newacronym{ny}{NY}{New York}
\newacronym{la}{LA}{Los Angeles}
\newacronym{un}{UN}{United Nations}

But only NY appears in the acronym list and it has a 1 after it:

NY New York. 1

But i want it to be:

NY New York

Neither LA nor UN appears in the list even if I write them in the text. Can someone explain why this is happening?

Complete code:

\documentclass{article} % Load the package 
\usepackage[acronym]{glossaries} 
\makeglossaries
\begin{document} 

\printglossary[type=\acronymtype,title=Acronyms]

 % abbreviations: 
\newacronym{ny}{NY}{New York}
\newacronym{la}{LA}{Los Angeles}
\newacronym{un} {UN}{United Nations}

\gls{ny}

\end{document}

Best Answer

No \gls{foo} or \glsaddall → no displayed glossary entry for this key.

Use nonumberlist to suppress the page number at the end of the displayed glossary entry.

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[acronym,nomain,nonumberlist]{glossaries}
\makeglossaries


\newacronym{ny}{NY}{New York}
\newacronym{la}{LA}{Los Angeles}
\newacronym{un}{UN}{United Nations}


\begin{document}

\glsaddall
\printglossary[type=\acronymtype,title=Acronyms]
\end{document}

Related Solutions

[Tex/LaTex] List of acronyms not created

If I understand this correctly you still need to use the acronyms in the document with macros like \gls or \glslink. The entries in the acronyms file only define the acronyms, but only the one which are actually used in the document will be listed.

The idea behind this is that you can have a central acronyms definition file used by many different documents, but only the one you actually use in the current document are really displayed. Its the same for .bib file and BibTeX.

See the glossaries manual, especially section 1.4 Q10 on page 22, for more information.

[Tex/LaTex] Two separate acronym list using package glossaries

This is the right way.

I added \glsaddall simply to add all entries in the lists.

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{glossaries}

\newglossary[nlg]{nomenc}{not}{ntn}{Nomenclature}
\newglossary[slg]{abbrev}{sot}{stn}{Abbreviations}

% Your custom styles here
% \newglossarystyle{style1}{.....}
% \newglossarystyle{style2}{.....}

\makeglossaries

\loadglsentries[nomenc]{INP-00-glossary}
\loadglsentries[abbrev]{INP-01-glossary}

\begin{document}

\glsaddall

\printglossary[style=style1,type=nomenc]
\printglossary[style=style2,type=abbrev]

\end{document}

EDIT

If you have the need to load the glossaries package with the option acronym

\usepackage[acronym]{glossaries}

then you can use this workaround to load your database with acronyms: substitute the line

\loadglsentries[nomenc]{INP-00-glossary}

with

\let\oldacronymtype\acronymtype
\def\acronymtype{nomenc}
\loadglsentries[nomenc]{INP-00-glossary}
\let\acronymtype\oldacronymtype

EDIT2

To solve your issue with \gls{md}, you should define the first key, which determines how the glossary entry is printed the first time it is used (it is automatic for acronyms, but not for common glossary entries).

This means that you have to rewrite your entry as:

\newglossaryentry{md}
{
  name={MD},
  description={molecular dynamics},
  first={\glsentrydesc{md} (\glsentrytext{md})}
}