[Tex/LaTex] Sorting the nomenclature description

nomenclaturesorting

I am using nomencl package to prepare the nomenclature for my thesis. In that, the package sorts the symbols as shown in Figure.

symbol_sorted

But I want the desription of the symbols in Right hand side to be sorted in alphabetical order without using prefix option as shown in Figure.

Desription_sorted

using of prefix option work consumes lot of time and manual effort. Kindly suggest solution.

MWE code:

\documentclass[a4paper]{report}
\usepackage{nomencl}
\makenomenclature
\begin{document}
\nomenclature{$\omega$}{Absolute Frequency}
\nomenclature{HOA}{Acetic acid}
\nomenclature{Al}{Aluminium}
\nomenclature{ASTM}{American Standard Testing Machine}
\printnomenclature
\nocite{*}
\bibliographystyle{thesis}
\bibliography{refpapers}
\end{document}

Best Answer

Per request to turn my comment into an answer: you could define a command

\newcommand\Nomenclature[2]{\nomenclature[#2]{#1}{#2}}

that automatically inserts the description to the optional sorting argument of \nomenclature and then use it instead of nomenclature:

\documentclass[a4paper]{report}

\usepackage{nomencl}
\makenomenclature

\newcommand\Nomenclature[2]{\nomenclature[#2]{#1}{#2}}

\begin{document}
Text% to produce a non-empty page

\Nomenclature{$\omega$}{Absolute Frequency}
\Nomenclature{HOA}{Acetic acid}
\Nomenclature{Al}{Aluminium}
\Nomenclature{ASTM}{American Standard Testing Machine}

\printnomenclature

\end{document}

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