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How to effectively use List of Symbols for a thesis?

I am looking at some thesis templates online, and virtually all of them have a line that says:

\chapter*{List of Symbols} \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{List of Symbols}

For example:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/latexusersgroup/tfHpC9MvpsI https://gist.github.com/FuzzyWuzzie/4678259

But absolutely no instruction as to how to add symbols onto this list! How do I start adding symbols to this list?

One source online said the way to add new symbols to this page is to create a table under this chapter:

But I would like to add symbols as I go so the symbols on different chapters are "hyperlinked" with the list of symbols when they are defined.

I wish to achieve this using something like \addsymbol{\beta: name of a cat} .

Is there a way to do that without creating a separate table of symbols?

• table-of-contents

• 1 A general way to do it would be for \addsymbol to write the information to an auxiliary file which is then read back into the main file. (This is how things like the table of contents and indices are made.) –  jon Commented Jan 14, 2017 at 3:16
• 3 Also have a look at the glossaries package –  siracusa Commented Jan 14, 2017 at 7:07
• 3 A template that defines a List of symbols that way tricks you into doing stuff by hand. If you want stuff automated have a look at acro or glossaries , but they might be overkill. –  Johannes_B Commented Jan 14, 2017 at 8:14
• 6 Templates are most often not an example of good practice and usability. Quite the contrary, actually. –  Johannes_B Commented Jan 14, 2017 at 8:15
• 1 For example, one of my answers with glossaries and symbols here: tex.stackexchange.com/questions/192666/appendix-list-of-symbols/… ? –  user31729 Commented Jan 14, 2017 at 8:43

Both the glossaries package and the glossaries-extra extension package provide the package option symbols , which creates a new list labelled symbols with the default title given by the language-sensitive \glssymbolsgroupname ("Symbols"). This list can be referenced with type=symbols . If you don't use this package option then you can use the default main glossary instead but the default title will be obtained from \glossaryname ("Glossary").

Table 1.1: Glossary Options: Pros and Cons in the glossaries manual summarises the key differences between the various options described below, and the glossaries performance page evaluates the performance (build time and sorting) of the various methods.

Method 1 (no external tools required, manual sorting)

This is the simplest method as it doesn't require any addition to the build process. Requires at least v1.08 of the glossaries-extra package.

Pros and Cons:

• you need to define the entries in the required order;
• there's no page list associated with each entry in the symbol list (although it's possible to add this manually);
• all defined entries will be included in the list regardless of whether or not they have been used in the document;
• all entries must be defined before the list is displayed;
• no external tools are required.

The first three points also apply to the manual method in your question that uses the tabular environment. The fourth point is automatically ensured by glossaries-extra 's default behaviour, which prohibits entries from being defined in the document environment. (If you have a lot of symbols, I recommend you put the definitions in a separate file and load it in the preamble using \input or \loadglsentries .)

Each symbol must first be defined. If the symbols package option is used, this can be done with \glsxtrnewsymbol[ options ]{ label }{ symbol } . The symbol can then be referenced in the document using \gls{ label } . For example, the symbol $t$ can be defined with the label t using:

It can then be referenced using \gls{t} . An alternative way of defining this symbol is:

or (if the symbols glossary has been defined):

The \glsxtrnewsymbol command is more compact and is more appropriate for symbols, but the symbols package option is required to provide it.

With this method, I recommend the sort=none package option, as this switches off the redundant construction of the sort key. (This option may not be available if you have an old version of glossaries .)

If the file is called mydoc.tex , then the build process is:

(Replace pdflatex with xelatex etc as appropriate.) The second instance of pdflatex is only needed here to ensure the table of contents and the PDF bookmarks are up-to-date.

This produces the symbol list:

The list of symbols is automatically added to the table of contents:

You can change the title using the title key:

I've used the long style, which is the closest match to your tabular example, but there are many predefined styles to choose from .

Make sure hyperref is loaded before glossaries-extra . (This is contrary to the general rule that hyperref should be loaded last.) This will allow commands like \gls to link to the relevant entry in the list of symbols.

It is possible to include a location, but as with all manual methods, this can be tiresome an error-prone. The following example only includes a location for the first symbol:

The record option (amongst other things), creates a field called location which \printunsrtglossary checks for. The list of symbols now looks like:

Method 2 (using an external tool to sort)

This method is more complicated as it requires an extra step in the build process. It's much like the previous example, but there are a few modifications:

• The nonumberlist option is added to suppress the location list that would automatically appear after each entry in the symbol list. (Remove this option if you actually want the locations.)
• The command \makeglossaries must be added to the preamble (before the symbols are defined).
• The command \printunsrtglossary must be replaced with \printglossary .
• the entries are listed alphabetically (according to their sort value);
• each entry in the list can have a list of locations where that symbol has been used (with \gls ) in the document;
• only those entries used (with \gls ) in the document are included in the list;
• entries may be defined in the document (but this must be enabled with the docdef=restricted or docdef=true package option, which has some potentially problematic issues) ;
• an external tool is required in the build process.

Modified example:

Assuming the file is called mydoc.tex , the build process is:

makeglossaries is a Perl script, so you need Perl installed to use it . If you don't have Perl, there's a light-weight Lua alternative called makeglossaries-lite which you can use instead. (Since modern TeX distributions come with LuaTeX, you should have a Lua interpreter already available.) The build process in this case is:

( makeglossaries-lite is actually distributed as makeglossaries-lite.lua , but TeX Live on Unix-like systems strip the .lua extension. I don't use Windows, but I think the extension can be omitted there as I believe the Windows distributions convert the Lua script to an executable makeglossaries-lite.exe .)

This produces an ordered list of symbols where the sort order is obtained from the first required argument of \glsxtrnewsymbol , which is also the label used to identify the term. If \newglossaryentry is used instead, the sort defaults to the name field, which causes problems for symbols that are defined in terms of LaTeX commands, such as \alpha or \sum . (This is why \glsxtrnewsymbol uses the label instead.)

Without the nonumberlist option the list includes a location list:

In this case, each location list consists of the number 3, which is the page on which all instances of \gls occur. You can switch to another counter if you prefer (for example, using the counter package option). The postpunc option allows a way of automatically inserting a punctuation character after the description but it's best used with the stylemods option. For example:

You can change the sort value using the sort key in the optional argument of \glsxtrnewsymbol . For example:

How you actually run makeglossaries / makeglossaries-lite depends on your setup. See, for example:

• How to makeglossaries with TeXworks?
• Incorporating makeglossaries or makeglossaries-lite or bib2gls into the document build .

If you're really stuck you can use the automake package option:

This doesn't have the diagnostic tools provided by makeglossaries and requires the shell escape.

Both makeglossaries and makeglossaries-lite call an indexing application. You can call it directly, but you need to know all the necessary switches and file extensions. (The Perl and Lua scripts provided with the glossaries package find the necessary information in the .aux file.) The default behaviour is to use makeindex . You can switch to xindy by adding xindy to the list of package options:

(Note that xindy is a Perl script, so you need Perl installed to use it.) In the above example, there's no difference since \glsxtrnewsymbol sets the sort field to the label, which only contains ASCII characters.

Things become much more complicated if you directly use \newglossaryentry and the name field contains commands. For example:

In this case, the sort field is obtained from the name field, but neither makeindex nor xindy understand LaTeX commands. In the case of makeindex , it treats \ensuremath{\alpha} as a string containing 19 characters, starting with \ so the result is:

This doesn't follow the natural ordering of Greek letters (which should be α δ ζ λ χ) and will position the Greek symbols before Latin symbols (since \ is ordered before a by makeindex ).

This example fails completely with xindy . If you use the makeglossaries-lite script, it fails with a cryptic message. If I just modify the document so that it includes the xindy package option:

then makeglossaries-lite reports:

This is because the document doesn't have the codepage set. This needs to be added:

(This isn't necessary with makeglossaries which falls back on -L english -C utf8 if this information is omitted.) However, even with this information, makeglossaries-lite fails with xindy 's rather cryptic message:

Switching to makeglossaries provides a more intelligible explanation:

So with xindy you must supply a sensible sort value (or use \glsxtrnewsymbol to default to the label) for entries that only contain commands in the name field.

Method 3 (no external tools required, order by use in the document)

To order the symbol list according to the first time the symbol is used in the document, you need to make the following changes:

• Add sort=use
• Replace \makeglossaries with \makenoidxglossaries
• Replace \printglossary with \printnoidxglossary
• entries may be listed in alphabetical order (not recommended with this method) or by order of use ( sort=use , as in this example) or by order of definition ( sort=def );
• all entries must be defined in the preamble;

As you might be able to gather from the first point, you can also use this method as a substitute for the other two methods. However, when sorting alphabetically, Method 2 is far more efficient and can support various locales (when used with the xindy option), although this may not be applicable for symbols (especially when they just contain ASCII characters). For a large list, this method can take a long time when sorting alphabetically . When sorting by definition ( sort=def ), this method differs from Method 1 as it only includes those entries that have been used in the document (whereas Method 1 lists all defined entries).

Adjusted example (third page modified to show effect):

The build process is back to:

The list of symbols now looks like:

Again, removing the nonumberlist option makes the location list appear:

Things go badly wrong if you use this method with the default alphabetical sorting when the sort value contains commands. Adjusting the earlier example with Greek symbols:

During sorting, the following error occurs:

This method is only designed for ASCII sorting. With this method, you must ensure that the sort value doesn't contain any commands (for example, use \glsxtrnewsymbol which obtains the sort value from the label) or use sort=def or sort=use .

Method 4 (external tool and .bib file(s) required)

This is a fairly new method. Instead of using makeindex or xindy (via makeglossaries or makeglossaries-lite ), it requires bib2gls , which performs two functions:

• se­lects en­tries ac­cord­ing to records found in the .aux file (sim­i­lar to bib­tex );
• hi­er­ar­chi­cally sorts en­tries and col­lates lo­ca­tion lists (sim­i­lar to makein­dex or xindy ).
• you need to define the entries in a .bib file (not in the document);
• bib2gls allows any location format or you may instruct it to omit the location list;
• you can instruct bib2gls to select all defined entries or only recorded entries (and optionally their dependencies);
• can interpret common symbol commands;
• can sort according to locale, character code, letter-number mix, numeric, date, time, order of definition, order of use, or can shuffle or omit the sorting;
• requires at least Java 7.

The symbols are now defined in a .bib file. For example, instead of:

the symbol is defined as:

Alternatively, instead of

(The type field has been omitted, as it's more flexible to assign it in the document.) As with \glsxtrnewsymbol , the @symbol definition uses the label as the fall back for the sort field, whereas the @entry definition uses the name as the fall back.

For example, the file greek-symbols.bib may contain:

The document needs the record package option. Instead of nonumberlist I can instruct bib2gls to not save the location list (which is more efficient). Instead of \makeglossaries / \makenoidxglossaries you need to use \GlsXtrLoadResources :

This uses \printunsrtglossary from the earlier Method 1. Unlike the other methods, bib2gls works by selecting only those entries that are required and then writes the definition ( \newglossaryentry ) to the file input by \GlsXtrLoadResources in the appropriate order. This means that \printunsrtglossary automatically lists the entries in the requested order (since that's the order of definition from glossaries-extra 's point of view).

The build process is now

This produces:

(Remove save-locations=false if you want the location list.)

Since bib2gls recognises commands like \ensuremath{\alpha} , it's used the correct Greek order. Alternatively you can instruct bib2gls to sort by the description instead:

If the file latin-symbols.bib similarly contains the Latin symbols:

Then they can be combined:

or separated into two distinct groups within the same glossary:

The group setting requires the --group (or -g ) switch when calling bib2gls :

This setting also requires a style that supports group headings, which is why I changed to the style to altlistgroup .

• If $$ is allowed instead of ensuremath it would be less typing and easy. –  alhelal Commented Oct 23, 2018 at 17:17
• bib2gls results exception. –  alhelal Commented Oct 23, 2018 at 17:31
• paste.ubuntu.com/p/r8q5fndNKY –  alhelal Commented Oct 23, 2018 at 17:40
• 2 This answer is great, thank you very much! I have some questions: 1. I use latexmk because it is easier to use with VS Codium. Is there a way to use bib2gls with it if I want to use method 4? 2. In method 3 (or any other), is there a way to group the entries the same way it is done in method 4? –  Pedro G. Mattos Commented Apr 11, 2020 at 3:54

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How to Write a Thesis in LaTeX (Part 1): Basic Structure

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Author: Josh Cassidy (August 2013)

This five-part series of articles uses a combination of video and textual descriptions to teach the basics of writing a thesis using LaTeX. These tutorials were first published on the original ShareLateX blog site during August 2013; consequently, today's editor interface (Overleaf) has changed considerably due to the development of ShareLaTeX and the subsequent merger of ShareLaTeX and Overleaf. However, much of the content is still relevant and teaches you some basic LaTeX—skills and expertise that will apply across all platforms.

Your thesis could be the longest and most complicated document you'll ever write, which is why it's such a good idea to use L a T e X instead of a common word processor. L a T e X makes tasks that are difficult and awkward in word processors, far simpler.

When writing something like a thesis its worth splitting up the document into multiple .tex files. It's also wise to organise the project using folders; therefore, we'll create two new folders, one for all the images used in the project and one for all the .tex files making up the main body of the thesis.

• 1 The preamble
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The preamble

In this example, the main.tex file is the root document and is the .tex file that will draw the whole document together. The first thing we need to choose is a document class. The article class isn't designed for writing long documents (such as a thesis) so we'll choose the report class, but we could also choose the book class.

We can also change the font size by adding square brackets into the \documentclass command and specifying the size—we'll choose 12pt. Let's also prepare the document for images by loading the graphicx package. We'll also need to tell L a T e X where to look for the images using the \graphicspath command, as we're storing them in a separate folder.

The start of our preamble now looks like this:

Now we can finish off the preamble by filling in the title, author and date information. To create the simplest title page we can add the thesis title, institution name and institution logo all into the \title command; for example:

This isn't the best way to alter the title page so we'll look at more elaborate ways of customising title pages later on in the series, but this will suffice for now.

This is what the \maketitle command now produces for us:

The frontmatter

After the title page we need to add in an abstract, dedication, declaration and acknowledgements section. We can add each of these in on separate pages using unnumbered chapters. To do this we use the \chapter command and add an asterisk. After these sections we'll add a table of contents using the \tableofcontents command:

The main body

Now for the main body of the document. In this example we will add-in five chapters, one of which will be an introduction and another will be a conclusion. However, instead of just composing these chapters in the main .tex file, we'll create a separate .tex file for each chapter in the chapters folder. We can then fill in these chapters with text remembering to split them up into sections and subsections.

Then to add these chapters into the document, we use the \input command in the root document. Remember to add in chapters/ before the file name so that L a T e X knows where to find it.

The endmatter

We will now add in an appendix at the end of the document. To do this we use the \appendix command to tell L a T e X that what follows are appendices. Again We'll write the appendix in a separate file and then input it.

If we now compile the document, all our chapters will be added to the document and the table of contents will be automatically generated.

Now we have a basic structure for a thesis set up. In the next post I will show you how to change the page layout and add headers.

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Writing a thesis or dissertation in LaTeX can be challenging, but the end result is well worth it—nothing looks as good as a LaTeX-produced PDF, and for large documents it's a lot easier than fighting with formatting and cross-referencing in MS Word. Here we provide a guide to getting started on writing your thesis in LaTeX, using a standard template which is pre-loaded into Overleaf.

We have a large number of thesis templates in our online library , and you can upload your own if your university provides a set of LaTeX template files.

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CoppeTeX 3.4 - A LaTeX toolkit for writing thesis and dissertations

This project provides a LaTeX document class suitable for writing academic dissertations and thesis according to the formatting rules established by the Alberto Luiz Coimbra Institute for Graduate Studies and Research in Engineering (COPPE/UFRJ).

The 'coppe' class contains a minimalist set of macro commands which allows its users to create the required textual elements following the COPPE/UFRJ dissertation/thesis guidelines. Among these elements, there are a front cover, a title page, cataloging details, native and foreign languages abstracts, table of contents, and list of bibliographic references.

Although it is tied to the COPPE/UFRJ guidelines, it can be easily ported to other institutions.

This version follows the document:

Norma para a Elaboração Gráfica de Teses/Dissertações COPPE/UFRJ Aprovada pela CPGP em 15 de julho de 2008 Com correção no Anexo III, páginas 19 e 20, em 01/10/2009 (Revisada em 10/09/2010) (Revisada em 26/11/2019 – Alteração da Folha Aprovação, Anexo III, páginas 22 e 23)

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Writing a thesis or dissertation in LaTeX can be challenging, but the end result is well worth it - nothing looks as good as a LaTeX-produced pdf, and for large documents it's a lot easier than fighting with formatting and cross-referencing in MS Word. Review this video from Overleaf to help you get started writing your thesis in LaTeX, using a standard thesis template from the Overleaf Gallery .

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Writing a thesis or dissertation in LaTeX can be challenging, but the end result is well worth it—nothing looks as good as a LaTeX-produced PDF, and for large documents it's a lot easier than fighting with formatting and cross-referencing in MS Word. Here we provide a guide to getting started on writing your thesis in LaTeX, using a standard template which is pre-loaded into Overleaf.

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In Indonesia, the use of “joki,” or writers-for-hire, is a long-standing – and mostly normalized – practice among university students.

The main gate of Yogyakarta State University in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, January 10, 2022.

Would you pay someone to write your university thesis?

For some, the answer will be an immediate “no” for a range of reasons, either moral, legal or practical. For others, it may be that such a “service” is simply unthinkable, completely unheard of, or prohibitively expensive.

In Indonesia however, a decades-old thriving business known as joki or writers-for-hire, where fellow students or recent graduates write other students’ theses, dissertations, extended essays or classroom assignments for a low fee, is back in the news.

While joki is nothing new in Indonesia, it has become a revived talking point recently following a viral video posted on X in July by the founder of the sociopolitics media platform What Is Up Indonesia, Abigail Limuria.

In the video , Limuria named a number of issues already facing the Indonesian education system, including teacher welfare, the curriculum, and teaching quality, continuing to say that the practice of joki was only adding to the existing problems.

“What makes me mindblown is that so many people don’t realize that this is wrong,” she said. “Come on guys, how can you not be aware that this is deception?”

The video has been viewed some 11 million times, and prompted discussion from students, academics and even some of the joki themselves, defending the practice and lamenting the lack of other jobs in Indonesia.

Undoubtedly, the concept of writers-for-hire comes from a confluence of factors.

One is the aforementioned saturated job market in Indonesia, which means that students and fresh graduates need to find creative ways to make money. According to Indonesia’s Central Bureau of Statistics, the unemployment rate in February 2024 stood at 4.82 percent .

Another issue is obviously overstretched and underpaid university lecturers, who often struggle with large class sizes of hundreds of students, and overwhelming administrative duties that leave them with little time to clamp down on issues like the increasing use of AI and plagiarism.

Thirdly, university students in Indonesia have become accustomed to the concept of joki , with many failing to see it as a dishonest practice, but rather a shortcut that everyone takes.

Why write your own thesis, when all your friends have hired someone else to write theirs?

Students on X, and some academics, also blamed the lack of support for students on the decision to simply pay someone else to do their work.

In particular, some highlighted the failure of many Indonesian institutions to teach students how to accurately research a topic and structure an academic thesis to reflect their findings – again being too overburdened by teaching and marking that they only have time to teach their core syllabus.

Perhaps one of the main reasons the practice flourishes is that there is really no stigma attached to it – something demonstrated by the way in which scribes-for-hire openly promote their services on social media platforms and e-commerce marketplaces.

Yet not only is joki unethical, it is also against the law – a fact confirmed by the Indonesian Ministry of Education’s X account , which replied to Limuria’s viral video.

“The academic community is prohibited from using jockeys (other people’s services) to complete assignments and scientific work because it violates ethics and the law. This is a form of plagiarism which is prohibited in Law No. 20/2003 concerning the National Education System,” the tweet said.

Yet clamping down on such a widespread practice is difficult, as universities are hardly likely to report students to the authorities for plagiarism, even if they know that it exists.

There is also scant research on the practice of joki, making it difficult to assess how widespread it actually is, and how universities could tackle something so deeply embedded in Indonesian academia.

Some lecturers on X suggested that another issue is that Indonesian academic institutions only offer the option of a thesis in order to graduate, and that this could be changed to a personal essay or another form of exam that would be more difficult for students to plagiarize.

Certainly, this is something that could be considered as a way of overturning a decades-long practice of cheating.

At a deeper level, however, academic institutions need to provide more guidance and support for students and be vigilant about the practice of joki – rather than practicing a “see-no-evil” approach that does nothing to address the issue.

If Indonesian institutions turn a blind eye to cheating before students even enter the workforce and public life, they will likely continue to learn the wrong lessons from the very academic powers that should be setting an example.

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CoppeTeX 3.4 - A LaTeX toolkit for writing thesis and dissertations

This project provides a LaTeX document class suitable for writing academic dissertations and thesis according to the formatting rules established by the Alberto Luiz Coimbra Institute for Graduate Studies and Research in Engineering (COPPE/UFRJ).

The 'coppe' class contains a minimalist set of macro commands which allows its users to create the required textual elements following the COPPE/UFRJ dissertation/thesis guidelines. Among these elements, there are a front cover, a title page, cataloging details, native and foreign languages abstracts, table of contents, and list of bibliographic references.

Although it is tied to the COPPE/UFRJ guidelines, it can be easily ported to other institutions.

This version follows the document:

Norma para a Elaboração Gráfica de Teses/Dissertações COPPE/UFRJ Aprovada pela CPGP em 15 de julho de 2008 Com correção no Anexo III, páginas 19 e 20, em 01/10/2009 (Revisada em 10/09/2010) (Revisada em 26/11/2019 – Alteração da Folha Aprovação, Anexo III, páginas 22 e 23)

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