Glossary — LaTeX abbreviation & acronym tool

Detect abbreviations in your LaTeX text — get \newacronym definitions and \gls{} wrapping, ready to paste back into your document.

What Glossary does

Paste your LaTeX article text and click Process Abbreviations.

  • Detects abbreviations in your .tex text and generates \newacronym definitions with \gls{} wrapping.
  • Optional domain hint (e.g. "wireless communications") to disambiguate expansions.
  • Paste an existing glossary file — already-defined abbreviations are skipped.
  • Candidate expansions come from academic papers and Wikipedia with source evidence — never fabricated.
  • Free, no sign-up needed — daily limits apply for fair use.
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Why this matters

Journals increasingly expect every acronym defined once, on first use, and used consistently thereafter. Doing that by hand across a long LaTeX document is tedious and error-prone. Glossary detects the abbreviations in your text, generates the \newacronym definitions, and rewrites first and later uses with \gls{} so the glossary package handles expansion for you.

Examples

Detect & wrap

Input: Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) models dominate vision tasks. A CNN is fine-tuned on our data. → Glossary emits \newacronym{cnn}{CNN}{convolutional neural network} and rewrites later mentions as \gls{cnn}.

FAQ

Which packages does it support?

It detects the acronym/glossary package already in your document and matches its command style; it does not force a package on you.

Does it edit my document automatically?

No — it returns the definitions and a rewritten copy for you to paste back; nothing is changed in place.

Will it catch acronyms I already defined?

Yes — existing definitions are parsed and left alone, so it only adds what's genuinely missing.

Is my text stored?

No text is stored after processing.

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