documentclass[ms,twoside, 12pt]{thesis}

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% The following file defines the inclusion of packages and some other required commands

input{setting}

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% The following file defines the settings for including List of Abbreviations

input{set_loa}

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% The following file defines the list of abbreviations

input{loa}

begin{document}

begin{preamble}

%Printing list of symbols and abbreviations
%setting the width of the labels the same as 2.5cm as required by DGS template
setlist[description]{leftmargin=!, labelwidth=2.5cm, font=normalfont} %
{setstretch{1.5}%
%
newpage
phantomsection
printglossary[title=LIST OF SYMBOLS, toctitle=LIST OF SYMBOLS, nogroupskip] %
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newpage%
phantomsection
printglossary[title=LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS, toctitle=LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS,type=acronymtype,
nogroupskip] %
setstretch{2}%
}%
setlist[description]{style=standard} %
%
% The following file defines the Thesis abstract


end{preamble}

end{document}

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%% The following is the list of most commonly used packages. If more / other packages are needed they are
%% to be added immediately after the following list.
usepackage{graphicx}
usepackage{latexsym}
usepackage{amsmath,epsfig}
usepackage{epstopdf}

usepackage{graphicx}
usepackage{epsfig}
usepackage{graphicx}
usepackage{latexsym}
usepackage{amsmath}
usepackage{amssymb}
usepackage{mhsetup}
usepackage{mathtools}
usepackage{mathrsfs}
usepackage{float}
usepackage{xfrac}
usepackage{epsfig}

%The polyglossia package allows for using Arabic and English together in one document.
%IMPORTANT: polyglossia is only compatible with XeLaTeX
usepackage{polyglossia}%
setmainlanguage{english}%
%This handles a bug due to polyglossia which corrupts the maketitle command in hyperref
letkeptmaketitlemaketitle%
%This allows navigation using links
usepackage{hyperref}
hypersetup{
    colorlinks,
    citecolor=blue,
    filecolor=blue,
    linkcolor=blue,
    urlcolor=blue,
    hidelinks=false %use this to change color of hyperlinks
}
%This package is used to get the correct formatting of the list of abbreviations and list of symbols using glossaries
usepackage{enumitem}
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% Needed to insert empty page between title and committe page in double sided document
newcommand{clearemptydoublepage}{%
  clearpage
  {pagestyle{empty}cleardoublepage}%
}
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%% The following is required for References

addto{captionsenglish}{%
  renewcommand{bibname}{REFERENCES}
  }

%% Thefollowing are the most common figure file extensions

DeclareGraphicsExtensions{.pdf,.png,.jpg, .eps}

%glossaries package for list of symbols and list of abbreviations
usepackage[xindy,toc,acronym,nonumberlist,nopostdot]{glossaries}
renewcommand*{glsclearpage}{}% to remove empty pages before the list of abbreviations and list of symbols

%to use the glossaries package, the symbols and acronyms have to be defined first
%SYMBOLS: Symbols can be defined using the following code
newcommand{sym}[4]{%This command can be used to define a symbol as explain below
    newglossaryentry{#1}{%
        name={#2},
        description={#3},
        symbol={#2},
        sort={#4}
    }%
}%
%The format for defining a symbol is as follows
%sym{label}{symbol}{description}{alphabetical sorting name}
%label: This will be used later on in the main body to use the symbol
%symbol: The actual symbol to be used
%description: The description of the symbol
%alphabetical sorting name: This name will be used to sort the symbol in alphabetical order if desired
%example symbol definition
sym{mysymbol}{ensuremath{Gamma}}{This is a symbol}{gamma}

%An acronym or abbreviation can be defined as follows
%newacronym{label}{short}{long}
%label: this will be used to call the acronym in the main body
%short: the acronym
%long: the full form of the acronym
%example acronym
newacronym{phd}{Ph.D.}{Doctor of Philosophy}


makeglossaries