An Environment for a List of Abbreviations
An environment that will correctly format a list of abbreviations. It should match other major sections of an essay.
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- Status:
- Not started
- Approver:
- None
- Priority:
- Low
- Drafter:
- David Purton
- Direction:
- Needs approval
- Assignee:
- None
- Definition:
- New
- Series goal:
- None
- Implementation:
- Unknown
- Milestone target:
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Suggest:
\begin{
\item[BDAG] Bauer, W., F. W. Danker, W. F. Arndt, and F. W.
3d ed. Chicago, 1999
\item[SBL] Society of Biblical Literature
\end{abbreviations}
It can be based on a trivlist LaTeX environment.
WidestAbbreviation should be the widest abbreviation used so that the width of the item label can be correctly calculated (BDAG in the above example).
Any necessary italicising should be the responsibility of the end user.
A possible advance feature would be to use an aux file to build up the abbreviations as they are used in the text. So you could do something like this:
See \abbrev{BDAG}, 256.
And use
\makeabbrev
to output the list of used abbreviations. This would function in a similar way to how the table of contents works.