Re: Creating a nomenclature section?

[Carsten Fechtmann <fecht@zarm.uni-bremen.de>]

Dear Mike

if something simple is what you had in mind for this, you might want  
to try this:

\definesynonyms[nomenclature][nomenclatures][\infull]
\setupsynonyms[nomenclature] %[criterium=all]

\starttext
\completelistofnomenclatures

\section{Some section}

% these could be placed anywhere
\nomenclature[PI]{$\pi$}{the ratio of the circumference with respect  
to the diameter of a circle}
\nomenclature[Dia]{$d$}{the diameter of a circle}
% References to them can be placed inside the definition,
% you might want to write a macro for that if that is a feature you  
use often

\input knuth

This is the symbol \PI. Please note that no math mode has to be used  
here as that is taken care of in the definition.
% Nor for the diameter \Dia.

And just using the list of nomenclatures again:

\placelistofnomenclatures
Produces a list (sorted) of all or all used 'nomenclatures'. See also  
the section about abbreviations in the ConTeXt handbook.

There is also the \type{...register} suite of commands if page entries  
etc.\ are more what is needed.
\stoptext

Cheers
Carsten

Am 12.02.2009 um 21:00 schrieb Michael Bynum:

> I haven't been able to find any documentation about producing a
> nomenclature section in a document using context.  In the absence of a
> command/module providing the functionality of something like the
> nomencl package in latex, I was wondering if anyone else had an
> elegant work around for this issue.  I guess I could just use a list
> to make a nomenclature section, but that would lose a lot of the
> functionality that makes something like nomencl useful.
>
> Mike
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