Text Formatting ⇒ Accents and listofsymbols.sty

[s.g.]

I'm trying to include a list of symbols in a template I'm preparing. I've found listofsymbols package, but I have a problem with accents. I would like to be able to compile words in Spanish.

When using package babel I can directly type accents, but when some symbol description has an accent, say "Energía", I get errors from listofsymbols.

I've tried to edit the .sty, and added to it

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\RequirePackage[utf8]{inputenc} \RequirePackage[spanish]{babel

but that doesn't seem to work.

Is there any way?

Thank you in advance

[localghost]

Provide a minimal working example (MWE) with the default listofsymbols package and the other packages included in the preamble as usual.


Best regards
Thorsten

[s.g.]

Thanks, the simplest code would be something like this:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[final]{listofsymbols}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[spanish]{babel}

\begin{document}
  \listofsymbols
  \opensymdef
     \newsym[Energía]{symE}{E}                     % With an accent
     \newsym[Masa]{symm}{m}
     \newsym[Velocidad de la luz]{symc}{c}
  \[\symE=\symm \symc^2\]
  donde \symE es la energía \ldots
  \closesymdef
\end{document}

which works fine if I avoid the accent in the symbol definition:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[final]{listofsymbols}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[spanish]{babel}   		


\begin{document}
  \listofsymbols
  \opensymdef
     \newsym[Energia]{symE}{E}                     % Without accents
     \newsym[Masa]{symm}{m}
     \newsym[Velocidad de la luz]{symc}{c}
  \[\symE=\symm \symc^2\]
  donde \symE es la energía \ldots
  \closesymdef
\end{document}

[s.g.]

Is there any alternative package for a list of symbols?

[localghost]

Is there any alternative package for a list of symbols?

It seems that the package is not supporting other languages. You may try the glossaries package. But you won't have the comfort of using commands that generate a list automatically.

[s.g.]

Thanks, I'll try that.