Annotated equations for increased readability and understanding of papers

Re:Annotated equations for increased readability and underst... by orforforof on Tuesday January 11, 2022 @11:05PM (#29902142)

For many of the papers I read (engineering) I would love to be able to click on symbols in an equation and have it link me back to where that term was first defined in the paper, either in another eqn or in the text. Tracing back in this way is a major pain point e.g. when trying to reproduce calculations. Seems like something journals/latex could easily implement in an automated fashion (maybe already possible?)

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Re:Annotated equations for increased readability and underst... by diarrhea on Wednesday January 12, 2022 @01:17AM (#29902989)

I use glossaries-extra. It allows the usual glossary stuff (acronyms), but can also be used to define symbols. All symbols then become hyperlinks, linking to the nomenclature at the beginning or end of the document. And in that nomenclature, glossaries- extra allows one to have a column of "first used", specifying the page of first occurrence.

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