Glossary¶

In online documentation, a glossary doesn't make much sense because you can search for terms directly and you have hyperlinks. However, in printed documents, a glossary can be very useful to provide definitions of terms used in the text.

TeXSmith supports glossaries through the ts-glossary fragment: declare the entries in the front matter under press.declare.glossary (and the acronyms under press.declare.acronyms, or inline with *[KEY]: …), and the fragment loads glossaries, declares every entry and prints the backmatter.

Nothing has to be enabled by hand. The fragment is activated by the writer, which names it in Requires.fragments as soon as a body emits \tsgls or \tsacr — that is, as soon as the document actually uses a glossary term or an acronym. A document that declares none carries no ts-glossary.sty.

\tsgls{key} is \gls (the first use expands, later ones use the short form); \tsacr{key} is \acrshort, the short form wherever it stands.

The declaration syntax, the groups and the sorting rules are in YAML Front Matter.