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% Example 188 Creating a List of Abbreviations
% Label: "ex:abbrev"
% arara: pdflatex
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% arara: pdfcrop
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\pagestyle{empty}
\usepackage{datagidx}
\usepackage[colorlinks]{hyperref}
\newgidx{abbreviations}{Abbreviations}% define a database for the abbreviations
 \DTLgidxSetDefaultDB{abbreviations}% set this as the default
 % define abbreviations:
 \newacro{html}{hyper-text markup language}
\newacro{css}{cascading style sheet}
% The following overrides the default description:
 \newacro[description={eXtensible Markup Language}] {xml}{extensible markup language} 
\begin{document}
 First use: \acr{xml} and \acr{css}. 

Next use: \acr{xml} and \acr{css}. 

Full form: \gls{xml} and \gls{css}. 

\printterms [
postdesc=dot,% put a full stop after the description
 columns=1,% one column page layout
 namefont={\textbf},% put the name (i.e. the abbreviation) in bold
 namecase=uc,% make the name upper case
 style=align% use the 'align' style
 ] 
\end{document}