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I've been using Chris Monson's Makefile ( http://www.bouncingchairs.net/oss/latex.html ) to run my LaTeX builds, and it worked very well for me, until I started using glossaries.sty.

Glossaries.sty uses a script entitled makeglossaries to build .gls files from the .glo files that the \glossaryentry ...

What I'm trying to do is pretty simple - to combine ntheorem.sty and glossaries.sty in an environment that will take a word and a definition and to display then as a definition at the current location in the text and to display them in a glossary in the endmatter.

What I have so far (and thanks to ...

That got me the rest of the way, thanks.

That's one step closer, thanks.

What I was trying to do was to capture the contents of the environment in the savebox. When that didn't work, I tried to capture an arbitrary string, and print that. When that didn't work, I went asking for help.

Your changes make my test work, thanks. But when I ...

OK.

This works (or, rather it outputs the contents of the savebox):

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{ntheorem}
\newtheorem{definition}{Definition}
\newsavebox{\mybox}
\newenvironment{glossdef}{%
\begin{definition}\savebox{\mybox}{Extra stuff in a savebox}}{%
\usebox{\mybox}\end{definition ...

What I want is a new definition environment that will take a word and a definition, and format it in place in a \newtheorems environment, and will add the word and the definition to the glossary at the end of the document.

My idea is to use theorems.sty and glossaries.sty, and to define a ...