MakeIndex, Nomenclature, Glossaries and Acronyms ⇒ no entries

[dave04]

Hello,
i am trying to build a glossary and I am stuck with makeindex. My Latex-document contains such an entry:

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some example
\newglossaryentry{example}{name={example}, description={exmp description}}

but when I run makeindex I get:

pdflatex ...
makeindex test.glo -s test.ist -t test.glg -o test.gls
This is makeindex, version 2.14 [02-Oct-2002] (kpathsea + Thai support).
Scanning style file ./test.ist...........................done (27 attributes redefined, 0 ignored).
Scanning input file test.glo...done (0 entries accepted, 0 rejected).
Nothing written in test.gls.
Transcript written in test.glg.

I really don't understand why there are no entries, i.e. I don't understand why (pdf)latex outputs an empty .glo-file even though there is an entry in the tex-document...

Best,
dave

[gmedina]

Hi,

there are several things that could be wrong with your document and/or the compilation process. Please reduce your code to a minimal working example (MWE) allowing us to reproduce the problem and clearle specify the steps that you follow to compile such MWE.

[dave04]

I'm working with Ubuntu 9.10. The mwe is:

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\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{ngerman}
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage[colorlinks=true,linkcolor=red]{hyperref}
\usepackage{glossaries}
\usepackage{eurosym}

\makeglossaries

\begin{document}

some example
\newglossaryentry{example}{name={example}, description={exmp description}}

\renewcommand{\glossaryname}{Glossar}

\printglossaries

\end{document}

I had to install glossaries.sty and xfor.sty. To build the document I type

pdflatex text.tex

and it outputs an empty output.glo file. I already tried another simple mwe that I found on tne WWW so my guess is that it is rather connected to latex or the installed packages...

[gmedina]

You are not using the \gls command (or similars) explicitily in the body of your document. Add, for example, the line

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\gls{example}

to the body of your MWE and compile with (pdf)LaTeX, then call makeindex from the terminal (as you mentioned in your first post or using makeglossaries test if Perl is available in your system) and run (pdf)LaTeX twice again.

Please report success or failure; in the second case, please include in your message any warnings/errors.

[dave04]

ok i wrote this inside the documents body:

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\newglossaryentry{example}
{
  name=example,
  description={how it might be}
}
this is a simple \gls{example}

pdflatex issues a warning:

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test.tex:0: name{glo:example} has been referenced but does not exist, replaced by a fixed one

and makeindex outputs:

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makeindex test.glo -s test.ist -t test.glg -o test.gls
This is makeindex, version 2.14 [02-Oct-2002] (kpathsea + Thai support).
Scanning style file ./test.ist...........................done (27 attributes redefined, 0 ignored).
Scanning input file test.glo...done (0 entries accepted, 1 rejected).
Nothing written in test.gls.
Transcript written in test.glg.

The .glo file looks like this:

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(indexentry :tkey (("example" "\\glossaryentryfield{example}{\\glsnamefont{example}}{how it might be}{\\relax }") ) :locref "5" :attr "glsnumberformat" ) 

[gmedina]

After compilation (in my TeX Live2009 system) of the following code:

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\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{ngerman}
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage[colorlinks=true,linkcolor=red]{hyperref}
\usepackage{glossaries}
\usepackage{eurosym}

\makeglossaries
\begin{document}

\newglossaryentry{example}{name=example,description={how it might be}}
this is a simple \gls{example}

\printglossaries
\end{document}

I get the following information in the .glg file:

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This is makeindex, version 2.15 [TeX Live 2009] (kpathsea + Thai support).
Scanning style file ./b.ist...........................done (27 attributes redefined, 0 ignored).
Scanning input file b.glo....done (1 entries accepted, 0 rejected).
Sorting entries...done (0 comparisons).
Generating output file b.gls....done (6 lines written, 0 warnings).
Output written in b.gls.
Transcript written in b.glg.

Comparing this with the info in your previous post, I see that you are using version 2.14 of MakeIndex; so your system is outdated and this might be causing the problem; I would suggest you to update your LaTeX system. Unfortunately, that's all I can say for the moment, but the author of the glossaries package reads this board, so perhaps she can give you some other hints.

[dave04]

OMG this was it. I should have thought of this by myself Thank you very much!

[nlct]

Glad it's now working, but just a quick note:

The .glo file looks like this:

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(indexentry :tkey (("example" "\\glossaryentryfield{example}{\\glsnamefont{example}}{how it might be}{\\relax }") ) :locref "5" :attr "glsnumberformat" ) 

This is xindy format not makeindex which explains why makeindex didn't like it. However, since you also have test.ist, I can only suppose you added in the xindy option after a run without it. If not, then it's something I need to investigate.

Regards
Nicola Talbot