glossaries grouping by first letter - joaomlourenco/novathesis GitHub Wiki
Lots of Acronyms? How to group them by first letter?
Thanks to André Rodrigues for these instructions https://groups.google.com/forum/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer#!msg/novathesis/TQnZpeqgHrQ/JUxkPouMBwAJ
Works with:
- Version 4.x?? (please confirm!)
- Version 5.x?? (please confirm!)
Past the following code in the template (I pasted it in the section "Customisation of some packages":
\makenoidxglossaries
\makeatletter
\begingroup%
\catcode0=12 %
\gdef\chrdef#1#2{%
\begingroup%
\lccode0=\numexpr(#2)\relax%
\lowercase{\endgroup%
\def#1{^^@}%
}%
}%
\endgroup
\def\@gls@getgrouptitle#1#2{%
\DTLifint {#1}{%
\chrdef\@tmp@char{#1}%
}{%
\def\@tmp@char{#1}%
}%
\ifcsundef {\@tmp@char groupname}{%
\def #2{\@tmp@char}%
}{%
\letcs #2{\@tmp@char groupname}%
}%
}
\makeatother
\newcommand{\Agroupname}{Name group A}
\newcommand{\Bgroupname}{Name group B}
\newcommand{\Dgroupname}{Name group C}
\newcommand{\Dgroupname}{Name group D}
\newcommand{\Egroupname}{Name group E}
etc...
The need for this code appears to be due to the use of \printnoidxglossaries in the template. Source: http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/296197/change-group-names-when-using-noidxglossaries
In the 'acronyms.tex' file, the entries must follow this type
\newacronym[sort=Aabc]{ABC}{ABC}{Definition}
Or this one for mathematical symbols:
\newacronym[sort=Aalpha]{alpha}{{$\alpha$}}{Definition}
The first character after 'sort=' defines which group the symbol belongs too: 'A' means the symbols belong to 'Name group A' defined above.
The glossary style must be one that includes groups:
\setglossarystyle{alttreegroup}
or
\setglossarystyle{indexgroup}
or
\setglossarystyle{listgroup}
(this command can be added to the acronyms file or to the template file)