glossariessorting
In the glossaries package, how can I make the glossary print the entries by order of appearance?
Some context: I'm using the glossaries package to generate a symbol index, and I'm interested to see whether the order in which I introduce the notation makes sense.
The warnings are coming from the hyperlinks that are being created to targets that are not created. So put this in the preamble:
\glsdisablehyper
You still get these warnings.
Package glossaries Warning: \makeglossaries hasn't been used, the glossaries will not be updated. Package glossaries Warning: No \printglossary or \printglossaries found. This document will not have a glossary.
So just silence them with this option:
\usepackage[nowarn]{glossaries}
I think that covers it!
You need to use \makenoidxglossaries and \printnoidxglossary instead of \makeglossaries and \printglossary if you want different sorting rules. The noidx variant uses TeX to sort and collate rather than using makeindex or xindy. It would've helped to have had a minimal working example (MWE) to illustrate the type of entries you have. The following example uses dummy entries provided in the test files example-glossaries-brief.tex and example-glossaries-symbols.tex which should be installed with glossaries.sty:
\documentclass{memoir}
\usepackage[symbols]{glossaries}
\usepackage{glossary-mcols}
\makenoidxglossaries
\loadglsentries{example-glossaries-brief}
\loadglsentries[symbols]{example-glossaries-symbols}
\begin{document}
\glsaddall
\printnoidxglossary[sort=word,style=mcolindexgroup]
\printnoidxglossary[type=symbols,sort=def,style=index]
\end{document}
The main glossary is sorted according to word order:
The symbols glossary is unsorted, although it looks sorted in this example simply because the sample entries were defined in that order. Another option is sort=use which orders the entries according to the first use in the document. There are many different predefined glossary styles to choose from.
Note that the noidx method is very inefficient at sorting alphabetically and is only designed for ASCII. The glossaries-extra extension package allows a mix and match approach so that makeindex/xindy may be used for the alphabetical sorting and \printnoidxglossary can be used for order of definition or order of use. (With sort=def or sort=use, \printnoidxglossary simply iterates through an internal list, which means no actual sorting is performed).
Adjusted example:
\documentclass{memoir}
\usepackage[symbols]{glossaries-extra}
\usepackage{glossary-mcols}
\makeglossaries[main]
\loadglsentries{example-glossaries-brief}
\loadglsentries[symbols]{example-glossaries-symbols}
\begin{document}
\glsaddall
\printglossary[style=mcolindexgroup]
\printnoidxglossary[type=symbols,sort=def,style=index]
\end{document}
If you use makeglossaries, it will detect that makeindex is only required for the main glossary.
Best Answer
I suspect the package option
sort=usewill do what you're after, i.e. write\usepackage[sort=use]{glossaries}. From the manual: