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}}
 
 
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[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