[Tex/LaTex] Acronyms and new glossary are not shown in \printglossary

glossariesmemoir

I am using the following example in order to set up a memoir-file. The example is taken from: http://www.latex-community.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=9423.

While this seems to work for the people in the thread my .glo-file does only contain entries from definitions stemming from these commands.

\newglossaryentry{culdesac}{name=cul-de-sac,description={passage
or street closed at one end},plural=culs-de-sac}

Symbols and acronyms are not part of my Glossary-file somehow. How would it be possible to fix that?

Moreover, is it possible to create a glossary without using the glossaries-package?

I am using texMaker on a Mac OS X-system. Help would be much appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

\documentclass[10pt]{memoir}


\usepackage[acronym,toc]{glossaries}
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\newglossary[slg]{symbols}{sym}{sbl}{List of Symbols}

\makeglossaries

% The following definitions will go in the main glossary

\newglossaryentry{culdesac}{name=cul-de-sac,description={passage
or street closed at one end},plural=culs-de-sac}

\newglossaryentry{elite}{name={\'e}lite,description={select
group or class},sort=elite}

\newglossaryentry{elitism}{name={\'e}litism,description={advocacy
of dominance by an \gls{elite}},sort=elitism}

\newglossaryentry{attache}{name=attach\'e,
description={person with special diplomatic responsibilities}}

% The following definitions will go in the list of acronyms

\newacronym{led}{LED}{light-emitting diode}

\newacronym{eeprom}{EEPROM}{electrically erasable programmable
read-only memory}

% The following definitions will go in the list of symbols

\newglossaryentry{ohm}{type=symbols,name=ohm,
symbol={\ensuremath{\Omega}},
description=unit of electrical resistance}

\newglossaryentry{angstrom}{type=symbols,name={\aa}ngstr\"om,
symbol={\AA},sort=angstrom,
description={non-SI unit of length}}

\begin{document}

\glsaddall

\printglossary 

\end{document}

Best Answer

In order to get the glossaries into the document, this setup requires the external tool makeglossaries and for the acronyms the \printacronyms command:

\documentclass[10pt]{memoir}


\usepackage[acronym,toc]{glossaries}
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\newglossary[slg]{symbols}{sym}{sbl}{List of Symbols}

\makeglossaries

% The following definitions will go in the main glossary

\newglossaryentry{culdesac}{name=cul-de-sac,description={passage
or street closed at one end},plural=culs-de-sac}

\newglossaryentry{elite}{name={\'e}lite,description={select
group or class},sort=elite}

\newglossaryentry{elitism}{name={\'e}litism,description={advocacy
of dominance by an \gls{elite}},sort=elitism}

\newglossaryentry{attache}{name=attach\'e,
description={person with special diplomatic responsibilities}}

% The following definitions will go in the list of acronyms

\newacronym{led}{LED}{light-emitting diode}

\newacronym{eeprom}{EEPROM}{electrically erasable programmable
read-only memory}

% The following definitions will go in the list of symbols

\newglossaryentry{ohm}{type=symbols,name=ohm,
symbol={\ensuremath{\Omega}},
description=unit of electrical resistance}

\newglossaryentry{angstrom}{type=symbols,name={\aa}ngstr\"om,
symbol={\AA},sort=angstrom,
description={non-SI unit of length}}

\begin{document}

\glsaddall

\printacronyms
\printglossary 

\end{document}

Compile as usual

pdflatex foo.tex
makeglossaries foo
pdflatex foo

enter image description here

I omitted the screen shot for the glossaries, for the OP was already able to create the glossaries inside the document.

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I suspect the reason why this question has remained unanswered for two years is because it's actually more than one question which doesn't fit in with the way this site works, but it needs to be either answered or closed to get it off the unanswered list.

Your first question (and the question title) you have already answered in a comment. The package option indexonlyfirst will only add the first use to the location list.

MWE:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[nopostdot,% remove dot after description
  indexonlyfirst,% only index first use
  nomain,acronym,xindy,toc,numberline]{glossaries}

\makeglossaries

\newacronym{MC}{MC}{Monte Carlo}
\newacronym{L}{L}{bond length}

\begin{document}

\printglossaries

\newpage
This is the first use of \gls{MC}.
\newpage
This is the first use of \gls{L}.
\newpage
This is the second use of \gls{MC}.
\newpage
This is the second use of \gls{L}.

\end{document}

Your second question (which really ought to be a separate post) is a little confusing.

For all the comumns, I need to add column names:

Symbol ....... Name and Units ....... First used on Page No.

The dots means white space.

This suggests a 3-column tabular layout, but your example code has six columns. Assuming that you're storing the unit in the user1 field and by "Symbol" you mean the short form (such as L) and by "Name" you mean the long form (such as bond length) then the following will produce a three column style (I've just used \AA for the ångström sign for simplicity, but it would be better to use siunitx to deal with the units):

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[nopostdot,% remove dot after description
  indexonlyfirst,% only index first use
  nomain,acronym,xindy,toc,numberline]{glossaries}

\makeglossaries

\newacronym[user1={\AA}]{L}{L}{bond length}

\newglossarystyle{myunitstyle}{%
 \setglossarystyle{long3col}% base it on the long3col style
  \renewenvironment{theglossary}%
    {\begin{longtable}{llc}}%
    {\end{longtable}}%
 \renewcommand*{\glossaryheader}{%
  \bfseries Symbol&\bfseries Name and Units&
  \bfseries First used on Page No.\tabularnewline\endhead}%
  \renewcommand{\glossentry}[2]{%
    \glsentryitem{##1}\glstarget{##1}{\glossentryname{##1}} &
    \glossentrydesc{##1} \glsentryuseri{##1} & ##2\tabularnewline
  }%
}

\setglossarystyle{myunitstyle}

\begin{document}

\printglossaries

\newpage
This is the first use of \gls{L}.
\newpage
This is the second use of \gls{L}.

\end{document}

This produces:

[Tex/LaTex] TeXnicCenter – makeindex does not generate acronyms and glossary at ones

The right order of runs to get your pdf file including glossary and acronyms is:

pdflatex Masterarbeit.tex (This first run creates the files you need for the creation of glossary and acronyms)
makeindex (to make the glossary and the second makeindex to create the acronyms (later we use a batch to do both runs with one call))
pdflatex (to include TOC, glossary and acronyms)
pdflatex (to get correct page numbers at last)

I think the quickest way is to create a Windows batch file mwe.bat with two lines, containing both commands you need to run makeindex two times:

makeindex Masterarbeit.glo -s Masterarbeit.ist -t Masterarbeit.glg -o Masterarbeit.gls
makeindex -s Masterarbeit.ist -t Masterarbeit.alg -o Masterarbeit.acr Masterarbeit.acn

Put the batch file into the same directory where you have your tex code.

I could be that you have to add the relevant pathes, you will see when you try it.

In TeXnicCenter you have predefined output profiles, but you can define new ones by your own. Go in TeXnicCenter menu to Build --> Define Output profiles and select the profile you use to compile. Click Copy and type in a new name for the new copied profile, for example mwe-makeindex.

Check (La)TeX and click on the last box to uncheck (do not use makeindex in this profile).

Now click on post processor, click on new (find the symbol for a directory) and type a post processor name glossary. Add to executables the name of your batch file mwe.bat (add the path if needed). To close the window click on the OK button.

With this construction you can use the new output profile to compile your tex code and to use afterwards automaticly by TeXnicCenter the batch file mwe.bat to run both makeindex commands you need.

After compiling first, you get all files you need for makeindex. Then the batch is called to run both commands (thats the reason I used the post processor!).

The next compile run can work with both results of both makeindex commands.

I have only the german version of TeXnicCenter, but if you want I can include screenshots if the advice above is not clear.

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