Adding a glossary

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.

How to do it...

We will work with the glossaries package by following these steps:

1. Start with any document class. For our example, we will use the scrartcl class, because we don't start with a paragraph indentation with the parskip option. However, you can 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 this 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, a word indicating the sort order because the name is actually a macro. Finally, write a description. All of...