Adding a glossary

When your document contains terms needing clarification, a glossary becomes invaluable. It’s an alphabetized roster of words or phrases accompanied by their explanations. Enhancing this further involves incorporating back-references, indicating where these terms are used within the text.

How to do it...

We will work with the glossaries package. Follow these steps:

1. Start with any document class. For our example, we decided on the scrartcl class because, with the parskip option, we don’t start with a paragraph indentation. But you could use the article class without options as well:

   \documentclass[parskip=half]{scrartcl}

2. Load the glossaries package and choose the style called long3col:

   \usepackage[style=long3col]{glossaries}

3. Use the following command to tell the package to create a glossary:

   \makenoidxglossaries

4. Create the first glossary entry for the word TeX. Using a key=value interface, state the name and a word indicating the...