[Tex/LaTex] nomencl.ist not found

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I'm on osx [MacTex] and I'm trying to use nomencl package. The problem is that:

makeindex thesis.nlo -s nomencl.ist -o thesis.nls

does not work, printing

 index file nomencl.ist not found

Lookig for the files (find / -name "nomencl*") returns the path: 

/usr/local/texlive/2015/texmf-dist/makeindex/nomencl/nomencl.ist

and doing:

makeindex thesis.nlo -s /usr/local/texlive/2015/texmf-dist/makeindex/nomencl/nomencl.ist -o thesis.nls

works correctly.

It seems a problem of path. How do I solve it?

Best Answer

I had the same problem. Here is what I have done:

  1. Updated to MacTex2015

  2. Run TexLive manager from the /Applications/TeXLive Utility and updated all

  3. Go back to TexShop or other utility, and manually update the engine to 2015 (on mine, El Capitan, it originally showed 2013, even after updating MacTex2015 -- this link https://tug.org/mactex/UpdatingForElCapitan.pdf does not contain the correct information): from /usr/local/texlive/2013/bin/universal-darwin to /usr/local/texlive/2015/bin/universal-darwin.

4) Quit TexShop and start it again. Now the menu will show 'Nomenclature' and 'Makeindex' as macros. Run these as usual to typeset it.

Note: % arara directives do not seem to work with this distribution, so one has to run Nomenclature and Makeindex separately. Additions to how to make array work with this distribution and TexShop gladly received.

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