General ⇒ glossaries | Call to MakeIndex failed

[guitarmanjon]

Hi

I'm trying to get a list of acronyms for my thesis and have followed the instructions located here:

http://www.latex-community.org/index.ph ... d-acronyms.

I have Strawberry Perl installed and have made the necessary changes to the Output Profiles as detailed in the know how article.

However, when I run a simple example (copied from the know how article) I get a

call to makeindex failed

Any thoughts on how I can overcome this?

If I'd known that a list of acronyms was this much work I might have tried to argue against the suggestion in my viva!

Thank you in advance
Jon

Here is a copy of the code I am using:

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\documentclass{article}

% Load hyperref before glossaries
%\usepackage[colorlinks]{hyperref}
\usepackage[acronym,toc]{glossaries}

% Define a new glossary type
\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}
\tableofcontents

\section{Diplomatic Memoirs}

When I was an \gls{attache}, I lived in a \gls{culdesac}, but
I didn't much care for it as I found there was a fair amount
of \gls{elitism} amongst my neighbours.

\section{Student Memoirs}

When I was a student I often left bits of electronic circuitry
in my pockets, such as \glspl{led} and \glspl{eeprom}, which
often ended up in the washing machine. The \glspl{led} didn't
fair too badly, but the \glspl{eeprom} frequently broke.

\section{Symbols}

The \gls{angstrom} is commonly used in structural biology,
whereas the \gls{ohm} is used in electronics.

\printglossaries

\end{document}

[nlct]

It might be worth trying MakeGlossariesGUI to create the glossaries. That has some diagnostic tools that might help to identify the problem.


Regards
Nicola Talbot