MakeIndex, Nomenclature, Glossaries and Acronyms ⇒ nomencl | Wrong Sort Order for italic Entries

[lemonicetea]

Hi, all.

I am using nomencl package. However, the italic nomenclature entry appears on the top of the list rather than in alphabetical order. How can I put it back to the alphabetical queue? Following are the code:

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\documentclass[12pt,a4paper,oneside]{report}
\usepackage[round]{natbib}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage{nomencl}

\begin{document}

\nomenclature{A/E}{Attaching and Effacing}%
\nomenclature{CCP}{complement control protein}
\nomenclature{Dr}{Cromer-Related Blood Group Antigen}
\nomenclature{\textit{E. coli}}{\textit{Escherichia coli}}
\nomenclature{IPTG}{Isopropyl-$\beta$-D-thiogalactoside}

\printnomenclature[3cm]

\end{document}

In the example, it seems that the E. coli is the top one on the list rather than in the queue. Does anybody know why?

Thanks a lot.

[localghost]

Thanks for the example, although it is not minimal. The following idea is based on the principle of the sorting algorithm used by MakeIndex. So you can read more in its manual. The presented code is untested.

Perhaps it works if you use that for the declaration of the concerned nomenclature entry.

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\nomenclature{E. coli@\textit{E. coli}}{\textit{Escherichia coli}}

This is only an assumption so there is no guarantee for success.

[lemonicetea]

Thank you very much! But it does not work. The entry "E. coli" just disappears from the list. Should I use some other package as well?

[meono]

Hi,

I am new to LaTeX, and I am using it to write my thesis. I got stuck with the same problem and haven't found a solution for it. localghost's suggestion didn't work for me either. I was wondering if anyone has other suggestions.


Cheers,
meono

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi meono,

welcome to the board!

Perhaps attach a minimal working example, which shows the problem in your concrete case. Even if the problem above is similar, source and cause can be different.

Stefan

[meono]

Hi Stefan,

Thanks for the reply.

I tried making it as short as possible. I noticed that the "writelatex" on the forum webpage doesn't show the "list of abbreviations page. But after a round of makeindex, makenomenclature, i can reproduce the problem on my TeXShop:

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\documentclass[a4paper,11pt,fleqn]{book}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage{nomencl}
\usepackage{makeidx}
\makeindex
\usepackage[numbers,square,comma,sort&compress]{natbib}

\begin{document}
\frontmatter
\makenomenclature
\renewcommand{\nomname}{List of abbreviations}
\markboth{\nomname}{\nomname}
\printnomenclature[2in]

\mainmatter
Some of the abbreviations that I need to use are ATP\nomenclature{ATP}{Adenosine triphosphate}, EMPP\nomenclature{EMPP}{Embden-Meyerhof-Parnas pathway} and \textit{pfk}\nomenclature{\textit{pfk}}{gene encoding phosphofructokinase}.

\end{document}

In my original document there are many abbreviations and they all go alphabetically in nomenclature - except the pfk, which I have to write in italic.

Any suggestions will be appreciated.

meono

[cgnieder]

I suspect writeLaTeX cannot figure out (yet?) that it had to run makeindex here...

Anyway, \nomenclature has an optional argument that allows you to specify how an entry should be sorted. I'd also not use \textit directly but rather would define a macro that reflects the nature of what is italicized. Here' an even more minimal example:

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% arara: pdflatex
% arara: nomencl
% arara: pdflatex
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{nomencl}

\makenomenclature
\renewcommand{\nomname}{List of abbreviations}

\newcommand\bio[1]{\textit{#1}}

\begin{document}

\printnomenclature

Some of the abbreviations that I need to use are ATP\nomenclature{ATP}{Adenosine
triphosphate}, EMPP\nomenclature{EMPP}{Embden-Meyerhof-Parnas pathway} and
\bio{pfk}\nomenclature[pfk]{\bio{pfk}}{gene encoding phosphofructokinase}.

\end{document}

Regards

[meono]

Thanks for the suggestion cgnieder, but that puts the italic abbr. to the end regardless of the first letter (at least in my case):

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{nomencl}

\makenomenclature
\renewcommand{\nomname}{List of abbreviations}

\newcommand\bio[1]{\textit{#1}}

\begin{document}

\printnomenclature

Some of the abbreviations that I need to use are ATP\nomenclature{ATP}{Adenosine
triphosphate}, EMPP\nomenclature{EMPP}{Embden-Meyerhof-Parnas pathway} and
\bio{pfk}\nomenclature[pfk]{\bio{pfk}}{gene encoding phosphofructokinase}. 
Lets add this one as well: zzz\nomenclature{zzz}{sleepy...}.

\end{document}

Is it any different for you?

[cgnieder]

I don't understand: shouldn't it be at the end (ATP, EMPP, pfk)?. If not just replace the optional argument [pfk] with something that specifies where you want it to be sorted in.

Regards

[localghost]

Clemens' idea only works for me if I specify the noprefix package option. A proposal based on the original example.

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\documentclass[11pt]{report}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[noprefix]{nomencl}

\makenomenclature

\begin{document}
  \nomenclature{A/E}{Attaching and Effacing}%
  \nomenclature{CCP}{complement control protein}
  \nomenclature{Dr}{Cromer-Related Blood Group Antigen}
  \nomenclature[e]{\textit{E. Coli}}{\textit{Escherichia coli}}
  \nomenclature{IPTG}{Isopropyl-$\beta$-D-thiogalactoside}

 \printnomenclature[3cm]
\end{document}

The output is attached.