Re: setup and usage for glossaries

Am 15.05.2026 um 17:49 schrieb Kirk Lowery:
> Greetings!
> 
> Although I'm a complete noob when it comes to ConTeXt, I'm a 30+ year user of LaTeX. Recently I decided I need to go outside the box and learn ConTeXt. For the past couple of weeks I've been exploring the documentation. I've got a question:
> 
> I'm running ConTeXt LMTX from TeXLive 2026 on a Debian 12 VM. As a learning exercise, I've been creating a simple "essay" document from scratch, making it more complex as I successfully add features. I want to setup and then use a glossary. But after searching for several days I've been unable to find documentation on a glossary feature, nor any MWEs.
> 
> Can you point me to a source(s) of info, howtos, examples, etc.? Any pointers much appreciated.

If you want an automatic glossary, where only referenced word appear you 
need \definesynonyms (you can find an example in the wiki).

For a manual glossary where you provide a list of words for the reader 
you can use \startitemize in combination with \txt for short entries or 
use the description mechanism ´when you have long entries.

Wolfgang

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