[Tex/LaTex] glossary does not appear

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I've placed

\usepackage{glossaries}
\makeglossaries

just before

\begin{document}

as recommended in my preamble. After the main part of my paper I've placed

\newpage
\printglossaries
\newpage

before

\bibliographystyle{ecta}
\bibliography{references}
\end{document}

But the glossary won't appear. Here is what I do:

Run LaTeX to load my document
Run BibTex to load my bibliography
Run LaTeX to generate citations and references

Before 3. I tried to run MakeIndex but then I got the following message:

Couldn't find input index file MainV2 nor MainV2.idx.
Usage: makeindex [-ilqrcgLT] [-s sty] [-o ind] [-t log] [-p num] [idx0 idx1 ...]

What do I do wrong?

I use TeXShop Version 2.43 on Mac OS 10.7., if that matters.

Best Answer

You need to run

Run LaTeX to load my document
Run makeglossaries to load my Glossaries
Run LaTeX to generate citations and references

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[Tex/LaTex] Makeindex no .nls file

_{If every one reads manuals, then we will have very less questions here and less reputation too ;)}

To make nomenclature you have to pdflatex the .tex file and then run this command:

makeindex -s nomencl.ist -t "<file name>.nlg" -o "<file name>.nls" "<file name>.nlo"

where <file name> is the name without .tex extension (myfile if I have myfile.tex).

Then again pdflatex myfile.tex.

Now the question is how to run makeindex with all those arguments in texstudio.

You can create a user command for this. Go to Options → Configure TeXstudio. In the window that appears, choose Build tab on the left side. Search for User Commands. (You may have to click Add button with a green +). Type

Make Nomenclature

just after user0: (0,or 1 0r 2, depending on how many use commands you already have) in the first box. In the second box type:

makeindex -s nomencl.ist -t %.nlg -o %.nls %.nlo

Now OK it. Illustration below.

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Now you have a menu under Tools → User with a short key also.

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Now run pdflatex → Make Nomeclature → pdflatex. Hope things are now clear.

As another option, you can install the cool automation tool arara and create a User Command for arara (as mentioned above) and make all three compilation clicks in one go. You have to add these lines:

% arara: pdflatex
% arara: nomencl
% arara: pdflatex

just before your \documentclass command (or anywhere in the document), and compile using

arara myfile

using your User Command.

[Tex/LaTex] Glossary does not work on different platforms

This has nothing to do with the platform. The difference is due to using different versions of the glossaries package. You are basically using an entry before it's been defined. Here's a MWE:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{glossaries}

\makeglossaries

\begin{document}

\gls{sample}

\newglossaryentry{sample}{name={sample},description={an example}}
\printglossary

\end{document}

The first time you compile this document, you get the error:

! Package glossaries Error: Glossary entry `sample' has not been defined.

With old (pre 3.08a) versions of glossaries, you will always get this error whenever you try to use an entry before it's been defined. With newer versions of glossaries, you'll get the error on the first LaTeX run, but not on subsequent runs (unless you delete the .glsdefs file). Therefore, I suspect that your Ubuntu platform has a fairly new version of glossaries, which is why it seems to work, whereas your other platform has an older pre-3.08a version, which is why it doesn't work.

The simplest, and recommended, solution is to define all your entries in the preamble.

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