[Tugindia] Alphabetical lists

[Wagish Shukla]

--- Wagish Shukla <wagishs at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 
> --- CV Radhakrishnan <cvr at river-valley.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, December 4, 2004 3:28 pm, Wagish Shukla
> > said:
> > 
> > > thanks. seems to work fine. except that the
> > package
> > > manual nomencl.dvi says ``redefine \nompreamble
> if
> > u
> > > want to explain something between the title of
> the
> > > nomenclature and the start of the list''. it is
> > not
> > > clear what this means.
> > 
> > [...]
> > 
> > The following small example when compiled provided
> > the output you wanted.
> > 
> > \documentclass{article}
> > \usepackage{nomencl,multicol}
> > \makeglossary
> >  \def\nomname{List of terms}
> >  \def\nompreamble{This is the preamble
> > text.\begin{multicols}{2}}
> >  \def\nompostamble{\end{multicols}}
> > 
> > \begin{document}
> > 
> > \section*{Main equations}
> > 
> > \begin{equation} a=\frac{N}{A} \end{equation}%
> >  \nomenclature{$a$}{The number of angels per unit
> > area}%
> >  \nomenclature{$N$}{The number of angels per
> needle
> > point}%
> >  \nomenclature{$A$}{The area of the needle point}%
> > The equation $\sigma = ma$%
> >  \nomenclature{$\sigma$}{The total mass of angels
> > per unit area}%
> >  \nomenclature{$m$}{The mass of one angel} follows
> > easily.
> >  \printglossary
> > 
> > \end{document}
> > 
> > -- 
> > Radhakrishnan
> > 
> dear sir
> i have a peculiar prob;lem. this was working fine.
> today i entered a new entry under nomenclature, ran
> latex, ran makeindex, then latex again as usual. the
> mesage was that the new entry had a runaway
> argument.
> i removed the offending entry, saved and then
> started
> the whole process. the entry refuses to go away and
> the warning stays. on running under `r' command, the
> dvi file is only partially made and the message is
> that the \end{document} has ocurred inside multicol
> environment.
> the most baffling part is why the erased entry
> refuses
> to go away after deletion. i have tried closing the
> session and starting a new session again, it does
> not
> help
> please help
> wagish shukla
> > 
what finally did work is this: i suppressesed the
preamble defining the multicol environment, ran
everything to get a onecolumn standard output, then
restored the preamble. ran everything again. i am
still curious about why earlier the offending entry
refused to go inspite of the delition.
thanks
cordially
wagish shukla
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