If words in your document require some explanation, you can add a glossary. This is an alphabetical list of words or phrases with their explanations. A possible improvement would be having backreferences to the locations in the text where those words are used.
We will work with the glossaries
package by following these steps:
Start with any document class. For our example, we will use the
scrartcl
class, because we don't start with a paragraph indentation with theparskip
option. However, you can use thearticle
class without options as well:\documentclass[parskip=half]{scrartcl}
Load the
glossaries
package and choose the style calledlong3col
:\usepackage[style=long3col]{glossaries}
Use this command to tell the package to create a glossary:
\makenoidxglossaries
Create the first glossary entry for the word TeX. Using a
key=value
interface, state the name, a word indicating the sort order because the name is actually a macro. Finally, write a description. All of...