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Monday, 16 January 2017

Latex Dictionary Template

I recently needed a latex dictionary template, there are a couple around on the internet, but they are all under non-commercial licences so I couldn't use them. Fortunately it is pretty easy to make one yourself, I have provided one here. Consider it to be under the wtfpl licence.

A short example of what the definitions look like:


%Copyright 2017 James Lyons
%This work is free. You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the
%terms of the Do What The Fuck You Want To Public License, Version 2,
%as published by Sam Hocevar. See http://www.wtfpl.net/ for more details.
\documentclass[twoside]{book}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{multicol}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\usepackage[bindingoffset=0.2in,margin=0.75in,paperwidth=5.25in,paperheight=8in]{geometry}

% set the headers so that first mark is always on left, second on right
% this is so that each word is put in the header correctly
\pagestyle{fancy}
\fancyhead[LO,LE]{\rightmark}
\fancyhead[RE,RO]{\leftmark}
% set the font
\renewcommand*\rmdefault{bch}
\newcommand{\comment}[1]{}
% remove chapter numbering
\usepackage{titlesec}
\titleformat{\chapter}
{\Large\bfseries} % format
{} % label
{0pt} % sep
{\huge} % before-code
% remove section numbering
\setcounter{secnumdepth}{0}
% this is how we define the actual dictionary items. markboth is for
% setting the page headers so that first and last words appear there.
\newcommand{\ditem}[1]{\item[#1] \markboth{\footnotesize \textbf{#1}}{\footnotesize \textbf{#1}}}
\begin{document}
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% title page
\begin{center}

\thispagestyle{empty}
\vbox{\vspace{5cm}
{\huge The Dictionary Title}}
\vfill
{\large Author}
\vfill

\end{center}
\clearpage
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% table of contents
\tableofcontents

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Preface
\chapter{Preface}

This is the preface.

\chapter{The Dictionary}
% we'd like the text size to be a bit smaller for the definitions
\footnotesize
% we'd like two columns of definitions
\begin{multicols}{2}

\begin{description}
\section{A}
\ditem{Abandon} \textit{-v.} definition 1 \textit{-n.} definition 2
\ditem{Abandoned} \textit{-v.} definition 1 \textit{-n.} definition 2
\ditem{Abbey}\textit{-v.} definition 1 \textit{-n.} definition 2
\ditem{Abbey}\textit{-v.} definition 1 \textit{-n.} definition 2
\ditem{Abbey}\textit{-v.} definition 1 \textit{-n.} definition 2
\ditem{Abbey}\textit{-v.} definition 1 \textit{-n.} definition 2
\ditem{Abbey}\textit{-v.} definition 1 \textit{-n.} definition 2
\ditem{Abbey}\textit{-v.} definition 1 \textit{-n.} definition 2
\ditem{Abbey}\textit{-v.} definition 1 \textit{-n.} definition 2
\ditem{Abbey}\textit{-v.} definition 1 \textit{-n.} definition 2
\ditem{Abbey}\textit{-v.} definition 1 \textit{-n.} definition 2
\ditem{Abbey}\textit{-v.} definition 1 \textit{-n.} definition 2
\ditem{Abbey}\textit{-v.} definition 1 \textit{-n.} definition 2
\ditem{Abbey}\textit{-v.} definition 1 \textit{-n.} definition 2
\ditem{Abbey}\textit{-v.} definition 1 \textit{-n.} definition 2
\ditem{Abbey}\textit{-v.} definition 1 \textit{-n.} definition 2
\ditem{Abbey}\textit{-v.} definition 1 \textit{-n.} definition 2
\ditem{Abbey}\textit{-v.} definition 1 \textit{-n.} definition 2
\ditem{Abbey}\textit{-v.} definition 1 \textit{-n.} definition 2
\ditem{Abbey}\textit{-v.} definition 1 \textit{-n.} definition 2
\ditem{Abbey}\textit{-v.} definition 1 \textit{-n.} definition 2
\ditem{Abbey}\textit{-v.} definition 1 \textit{-n.} definition 2
\ditem{Abbey}\textit{-v.} definition 1 \textit{-n.} definition 2
\ditem{Abbey}\textit{-v.} definition 1 \textit{-n.} definition 2
\ditem{Abbey}\textit{-v.} definition 1 \textit{-n.} definition 2
\ditem{Abbey}\textit{-v.} definition 1 \textit{-n.} definition 2
\ditem{Abbey}\textit{-v.} definition 1 \textit{-n.} definition 2
\ditem{Abbey}\textit{-v.} definition 1 \textit{-n.} definition 2
\ditem{Abbey}\textit{-v.} definition 1 \textit{-n.} definition 2
\ditem{Abbey}\textit{-v.} definition 1 \textit{-n.} definition 2
\ditem{Abbey}\textit{-v.} definition 1 \textit{-n.} definition 2
\ditem{Abbey}\textit{-v.} definition 1 \textit{-n.} definition 2
\ditem{Abbey}\textit{-v.} definition 1 \textit{-n.} definition 2
\ditem{Abbey}\textit{-v.} definition 1 \textit{-n.} definition 2
\ditem{Abbey}\textit{-v.} definition 1 \textit{-n.} definition 2
\ditem{Abbey}\textit{-v.} definition 1 \textit{-n.} definition 2
\ditem{Abbey}\textit{-v.} definition 1 \textit{-n.} definition 2
\ditem{Abbey}\textit{-v.} definition 1 \textit{-n.} definition 2
\ditem{Abbey}\textit{-v.} definition 1 \textit{-n.} definition 2
\ditem{Abbey}\textit{-v.} definition 1 \textit{-n.} definition 2
\ditem{Abbey}\textit{-v.} definition 1 \textit{-n.} definition 2
\ditem{Abbey}\textit{-v.} definition 1 \textit{-n.} definition 2
\ditem{Abbey}\textit{-v.} definition 1 \textit{-n.} definition 2
\ditem{Abbey}\textit{-v.} definition 1 \textit{-n.} definition 2
\ditem{Abbey}\textit{-v.} definition 1 \textit{-n.} definition 2
\ditem{Abbey}\textit{-v.} definition 1 \textit{-n.} definition 2
\ditem{Abbey}\textit{-v.} definition 1 \textit{-n.} definition 2
\ditem{Abide} \textit{-v.} definition 1 \textit{-n.} definition 2
\end{description}

\end{multicols}

\end{document}

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