TeXShop ⇒ Glossaries

[bruhan]

Hello. I would like to make a glossary in my TeXshop version. I've seen a post which teaches us how to create a makeglossary in TeXshop in an iMac

http://the-moni-blog.blogspot.com.br/20 ... n-mac.html

But I can't find my engines directory. Can anyone help me?

Thanks

[Johannes_B]

Hi and welcome,

personally, i would always refer to Glossaries, Nomenclature, Lists of Symbols and Acronyms, an article written by the author itself. The basics of compiling are still valid, but the possibilities have changed a bit. Nicola has done quite a lot of development.

As to where you find the binary files, please run on the command line:

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$ which makeglossaries

makeglossaries is a perl script that eases the call to makeindex (or xindy).

[bruhan]

Thanks Johannes. I found my engines alright. I then created a file

#!/bin/sh

bfname=$(dirname "$1")/"`basename "$1" .tex`"

makeindex -s "$bfname".ist -t "$bfname".alg -o "$bfname".acr "$bfname".acn
makeindex -s "$bfname".ist -t "$bfname".glg -o "$bfname".gls "$bfname".glo

Then tried to make it executable, but it didn't work. Any ideas what dirname "$1" and `basename "$1" .tex` would be?

Thanks

[Johannes_B]

Dirname seems to be the name of your current directory, basename is the basename of your current tex file. Why are worrying yourself with that stuff?


Run makeglossaries basename and everything will be fine. Remember, the basename is the name of your texfile, without the ending.

[bruhan]

Johanes, thank you for your answer. I'm trying to get a the makeglossaries appear on my drop down menu. Still haven't managed.

[bruhan]

I'm a beginner in this issue (!) and am having difficulties in following the recipes. I figured out I have to run make glossaries, but I haven't understood how or when. Should I run it through the terminal using my main file? What should I do after this?

[bruhan]

I have two files: a main file (Include_Tese) where I include my glossary file (Glossario) and a glossary file.

When I ran:
makeglossaries My_Main_File

I got the following answer:

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makeglossaries version 2.14 (2014-03-06)
added glossary type 'main' (glg,gls,glo)
Warning: File 'Include_Tese.glo' is empty.
Have you used any entries defined in glossary 'main'?
Remember to use package option 'nomain' if you
don't want to use the main glossary.

[Johannes_B]

Without any code, its hard to suggest anything. Please add a minimal working example.

At the first LaTeX run, helper files are created. The external tool makeglossaries, which is applpied on the basename of the mainfile (without file extension) sorts out the glossary stuff and write other files. With the next run of LaTeX, those files are read and the final glossary is printed.

So, you have to run the helper script/programm/app in between your LaTeX runs.

To the actual problem: please have a look at the message, it gives you some clues.

[bruhan]

Thanks again. Thanks for your patience.

My minimum code is as follows:

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\documentclass[11pt, a4paper]{report}
\usepackage{makeidx}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage{natbib}
\makeindex
\usepackage[toc]{glossaries}
\input{Capitulos/Glossario}
\makeglossaries

\begin{document}
\printglossary
\end{document}

My Glossario File is:

\newglossaryentry{chama}
{
name= {chama},
description={uma rea\c{c}\~ao autosustentada}
}
\newglossaryentry{(LTE)}
{
name = {equilibrio}
description={localmente}
}


When I run latex followed by makeglossaries followed by latex and latex again, I get a compiled document without a glossary

[bruhan]

Also, I run latex from the drop down menu in my Texshop window, and I run makeglossaries MyFile (without extension) from the terminal (and I get:

bruno$ makeglossaries Include_Tese
makeglossaries version 2.14 (2014-03-06)
added glossary type 'main' (glg,gls,glo)
Warning: File 'Include_Tese.glo' is empty.
Have you used any entries defined in glossary 'main'?
Remember to use package option 'nomain' if you
don't want to use the main glossary.