[Tugindia] nomenclature package

[Sreejith Kuttanikkad]

On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 4:12 PM, Radhakrishnan CV <cvr at river-valley.org>wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 11:37 PM, Sreejith Kuttanikkad
> <sreejithpk at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Dear All,
> >
> > I have a problem with nomencl package. I try to have a symbol as
> following.
> >
> > \nomenclature{$P\!e$}{P\'{e}clet Number}
> > where I have used a negative space thing between P and e in $Pe$. In this
> > case the layout get disturbed and the entry comes as below:
> >
> > [P
> >    e]*PecletNumber*
> >
> > Any work around?
>
> Ah, you did the mischief of using '\!'  :-)  As you might know,
> nomenclature is nothing but  modified glossary item and it makes use
> of makeindex program to sort the entries.  In the makeindex parlance,
> '!' is reserved for sub entries, so it is doing its job faithfully by
> making the rest of the string as subitem.  You might try with
> '\negthinspace' instead of \! and it works perfectly.
>

Thank you very much indeed. That works! great.