MakeIndex, Nomenclature, Glossaries and Acronyms ⇒ Nomenclature on Texstudio on Mac OS-X

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Hi,

I've followed every thread I can find to implement nomenclature on my elsarticle Latex document using Texstudio, but nothing has worked for me so far. Here's what I have done so far:

% In preamble:
\immediate\write18{makeindex \jobname.nlo -s nomencl.ist -o \jobname.nls}
\documentclass[review]{elsarticle}
\usepackage[intoc]{nomencl}
\makenomenclature

% In the document:
\nomenclature{$a$}{The number of angels per unit area}
\printnomenclature

I have a Mac OSX system, so I don't have the option to 'Configure TexStudio' from the drop-down menu, so I typed this into the Terminal:

pdflatex "/Users/myname/OneDrive/elsarticle-template/v2 draft".tex

makeindex "/Users/myname/OneDrive/elsarticle-template/v2 draft".nlo -s nomencl.ist -o  "/Users/myname/OneDrive/elsarticle-template/v2 draft".nls -t %.nlg

pdflatex "/Users/myname/OneDrive/elsarticle-template/v2 draft".tex

In this, the full address of my file is : "/Users/myname/OneDrive/elsarticle-template/v2 draft"

I have also tried a few times with just the file name, and not the full address. However, absolutely nothing has worked!

I would really appreciate any input on what is wrong in my implementation.
Thanks a lot!

[rais]

I would refrain from spaces in filenames.
Additionally, I'd check for the presence of a .nlo file first, before trying to invoke \write18 on it.
And then there's no output of \printnomenclature, as long as there's no text at all...

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\documentclass[review]{elsarticle}
\IfFileExists{\jobname.nlo}{%
  \immediate\write18{makeindex \jobname.nlo -s nomencl.ist -o \jobname.nls}%
}{%
  \typeout{No `\jobname.nlo' file yet---skipping makeindex call.}%
}
\usepackage[intoc]{nomencl}
\makenomenclature

\begin{document}
% In the document:
x\nomenclature{$a$}{The number of angels per unit area}
\printnomenclature
\end{document}

works for me (just running pdfLaTeX on it), as long as there's no space in \jobname and (restricted) shell-escape is enabled (for me, shell-escape is enabled in restricted mode by default, you may need to add -shell-escape or -shell-restricted to your pdfLaTeX call)

[edit] running pdfLaTeX twice, at least, of course[/edit]
KR
Rainer

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Thanks so much, rais!! I started following your points starting from the simplest. It turns out that all I needed to do was remove the space in the file name. Then magically, a nomenclature appeared! I'm super happy this finally works, and it's been a good lesson that it's best to avoid spaces in names, even if everything seems to be ok for most things.

Thanks again!