I try to make a glossary with the glossaries package. I understand that I have to run makeglossaries
to display the glossary. (according to this link: "Processing the file will have to include a call to makeglossaries
followed by at least one more invocation of latex
.")
How do I run makeglossaries
on MikTeX (Win 7)?
Some guides say I should put some commandline in the makefile. What is the makefile? seriously, I've googled this, but can't find any simple explanation. Do I need to do this?
Best Answer
The Perl script
makeglossaries
comes along with theglossaries
package. It calls a backend (makeindex
orxindy
) to sort and typeset glossaries, lists of acronyms, lists of symbols etc. On the command line, you would simply typeto include one or more glossaries in your document. Hence,
makeglossaries
is used similarly to the well-knownbibtex
program. Usually, LaTeX editors offer the possibility to runlatex
andbibtex
via the menu or the toolbar. If this applies to your editor it shouldn't be a problem to configure it to interface withmakeglossaries
in the same way.