Typst glossary

Glossarium is based in great part of the work of Sébastien d'Herbais de Thun from his master thesis available at: https://github.com/Dherse/masterproef. His glossary is available under the MIT license here.

Glossarium is a simple, easily customizable typst glossary inspired by LaTeX glossaries package . You can see an example showing the different features in example.typ.

Manual

Import and setup

This manual assume you have a good enough understanding of typst markup and scripting.

For Typst 0.6.0 or later import the package from the typst preview repository:

#import "@preview/glossarium:0.2.0": make-glossary, print-glossary, gls, glspl 

For Typst before 0.6.0 or to use glossarium as a local module, download the package files into your project folder and import glossarium.typ:

#import "glossarium.typ": make-glossary, print-glossary, gls, glspl 

After importing the package and before making any calls to gls, print-glossary or glspl, please MAKE SURE you add this line

#show: make-glossary

WHY DO WE NEED THAT ? : In order to be able to create references to the terms in your glossary using typst ref syntax @key glossarium needs to setup some show rules before any references exist. This is due to the way typst works, there is no workaround.

Therefore I recommend that you always put the #show: ... statement on the line just below the #import statement.

Printing the glossary

First we have to define the terms. A term is a dictionary composed of 2 required and 2 optional elements:

• key (string) required: used to make reference to the term.
• short (string) required: the short form of the term replacing the term citation.
• long (string or content) optional: The long form of the term, displayed in the glossary and on the first citation of the term.
• desc (string or content) optional: The description of the term.

Then the terms are passed as a list to print-glossary

#print-glossary((
  // minimal term
  (key: "kuleuven", short: "KU Leuven"),
  // a term with a long form
  (key: "unamur", short: "UNamur", long: "Université de Namur"),
  // no long form here
  (key: "kdecom", short: "KDE Community", desc:"An international team developing and distributing Open Source software."),
  // a full term with description containing markup
  (
    key: "oidc", 
    short: "OIDC", 
    long: "OpenID Connect", 
    desc: [OpenID is an open standard and decentralized authentication protocol promoted by the non-profit
     #link("https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenID#OpenID_Foundation")[OpenID Foundation].]),
))

By default, the terms that are not referenced in the document are not shown in the glossary, you can force their appearance by setting the show-all argument to true

You can call this function from anywhere.

Referencing terms.

Referencing terms is done using the key of the terms using the gls function or the reference syntax.

// referencing the OIDC term using gls
#gls("oidc")
// displaying the long form forcibly
#gls("oidc", long: true)

// referencing the OIDC term using the reference syntax
@oidc

Handling plurals

You can use the glspl function and the references supplements to pluralize terms:

#glspl("oidc") // equivalent of `#gls("oidc", suffix: "s")`
// or
@oidc[s]

Final tips

I recommend setting a show rule for the links to that your reader understand that they can click on the references to go to the term in the glossary.

#show link: set text(fill: blue.darken(60%))
// links are now blue !