boldglossaries
I have defined a lot of terms with the glossaries package and use them in my text with the \gls{} command. However, I'd like terms called with \gls{} to appear bold, so people know that it is a term defined in the glossary.
What command do I have to renew and how to achieve this?
Thanks in advance,
Since you don't seem interested in the location list, you could change the location counter to section and define a glossary style that checks if the current section is in the location list. You'll probably want to neaten the glossary, but here's an example:¹
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{datatool-base}
\usepackage[counter=section,xindy]{glossaries}
\GlsSetXdyMinRangeLength{0}
\makeglossaries
\newglossaryentry{E}{name={\ensuremath{E}},
description={energy}}
\newglossaryentry{m}{name={\ensuremath{m}},
description={mass}}
\newglossaryentry{c}{name={\ensuremath{c}},
description={speed of light}}
\newglossaryentry{v}{name={\ensuremath{v}},
description=velocity}
\newglossarystyle{mystyle}%
{%
\setglossarystyle{list}%
\renewcommand*{\glossaryentrynumbers}[1]{\striprelax##1\endstriprelax}%
\renewcommand*{\glsXsectionXglsnumberformat}[2]{##2}%
\renewcommand*{\delimR}{,}%
\renewcommand*{\glossentry}[2]{%
\edef\doifinlocation{\noexpand\ifinlocation{\thesection}{##2}}%
\doifinlocation
{%
\item \glossentryname{##1} \glossentrydesc{##1}%
}%
}%
}
% \ifinlocation{number}{location list}{body}
\newcommand{\ifinlocation}[3]{%
\DTLifinlist{#1}{#2}{#3}{}%
}
\def\striprelax\relax#1\endstriprelax{#1}
\setglossarystyle{mystyle}
\begin{document}
\section{Sample Section}
\printglossary
\begin{equation}
\gls{E} = \gls{m}\cdot \gls{c}^2
\end{equation}
\section{Another Section}
\printglossary
\begin{equation}
\gls{E} = \frac{\gls{m}\gls{v}^2}{2}
\end{equation}
\end{document}
Note that this uses xindy rather than makeindex to suppress the range formation, which makes it easier to test if the current section is in the list.
The result looks like:
Here's an alternative approach that uses bib2gls with the glossaries-extra extension package. The entries are now defined in a .bib file, for example syms.bib:
@symbol{E,
name={\ensuremath{E}},
description={energy}
}
@symbol{m,
name={\ensuremath{m}},
description={mass}
}
@symbol{c,
name={\ensuremath{c}},
description={speed of light}
}
@symbol{v,
name={\ensuremath{v}},
description={velocity}
}
The document code now looks like:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[record]{glossaries-extra}
\GlsXtrRecordCounter{section}
\GlsXtrLoadResources[
src={syms}, % entries defined in syms.bib
]
\newcommand{\printsectionglossary}[1][]{%
\printunsrtglossary*[nonumberlist,#1]{%
\renewcommand{\printunsrtglossaryhandler}[1]{%
\glsxtrfieldxifinlist{##1}{record.section}{\thesection}
{\glsxtrunsrtdo{##1}}%
{}%
}%
}%
}
\begin{document}
\section{Sample Section}
\printsectionglossary
\begin{equation}
\gls{E} = \gls{m}\cdot \gls{c}^2
\end{equation}
\section{Another Section}
\printsectionglossary
\begin{equation}
\gls{E} = \frac{\gls{m}\gls{v}^2}{2}
\end{equation}
\end{document}
The result is the same as before. If you want to use the hyperref package then you need to make a minor adjustment to prevent duplicate target names:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[colorlinks]{hyperref}
\usepackage[record]{glossaries-extra}
\GlsXtrRecordCounter{section}
\GlsXtrLoadResources[
src={syms}, % entries defined in syms.bib
]
\newcommand{\printsectionglossary}[1][]{%
\printunsrtglossary*[nonumberlist,#1]{%
\renewcommand{\printunsrtglossaryhandler}[1]{%
\glsxtrfieldxifinlist{##1}{record.section}{\thesection}
{\glsxtrunsrtdo{##1}}%
{}%
}%
\ifcsundef{theHsection}%
{%
\setkeys{printgloss}{targetnameprefix={record.\csuse{thesection}.}}%
}%
{%
\setkeys{printgloss}{targetnameprefix={record.\csuse{theHsection}.}}%
}%
}%
}
\begin{document}
\section{Sample Section}
\printsectionglossary
\begin{equation}
\gls{E} = \gls{m}\cdot \gls{c}^2
\end{equation}
\section{Another Section}
\printsectionglossary
\begin{equation}
\gls{E} = \frac{\gls{m}\gls{v}^2}{2}
\end{equation}
\printunsrtglossary
\end{document}
This makes \gls link to the main (full) glossary at the end of the document.
¹ The original answer used some now deprecated commands \glossarystyle (now \setglossarystyle) and \glossaryentryfield:
\newglossarystyle{mystyle}%
{%
\glossarystyle{list}%
\renewcommand*{\glossaryentrynumbers}[1]{\striprelax##1\endstriprelax}%
\renewcommand*{\glsXsectionXglsnumberformat}[2]{##2}%
\renewcommand*{\delimR}{,}%
\renewcommand*{\glossaryentryfield}[5]{%
\edef\doifinlocation{\noexpand\ifinlocation{\thesection}{##5}}%
\doifinlocation
{%
\item ##2 ##3%
}%
}%
}
These should not be used with v4.0 onwards.
I've found this to be the quickest solution for me:
\begin{document}
[...]
\glsunsetall
\listoffigures
\listoftables
\glsresetall
[...]
\end{document}
The commands \glsunsetall and \glsresetall have the function to set or reset the so-called first use flag.
With the sequence I've written, acronyms in the LoF and LoT are in the short form.
Then, thanks to \glsresetall, they are displayed correctly in the text (first use first, and then the short form).
Best Answer
The
glossariespackage offers the command\glstextformatto control the way the text is displayed, so you can writeor
in the preamble of your document.