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[Cham]

I'm trying to make a glossary (for the first time), but the code isn't working. I don't understand what is wrong. Here's a MWE code to work with:

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\RequirePackage[l2tabu,orthodox]{nag}
\documentclass[11pt,letterpaper,twoside]{book}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[total={6.25in,10in},left=1.25in,top=0.5in,includehead,includefoot]{geometry}
\usepackage[nonumberlist]{glossaries} % Useless option ?
\makeglossaries
 
\newglossaryentry{latex}
{
    name=latex,
    description={Is a mark up language specially suited 
    for scientific documents}
}
 
\newglossaryentry{maths}
{
    name=mathematics,
    description={Mathematics is what mathematicians do}
}
 
\begin{document}
 
\chapter{Chapter title}
 
\section{Glossary}
 
A word or two
 
\glsaddall % useless command ?
\printglossaries
 
\end{document}

What am I doing wrong here? The glossary should be showing at the end of that document, but the two entries aren't after a 3 passes compilation.

I suspect that a special file should be located in the same folder as the LaTeX code itself, a bit like what is needed for an index. For reference, here's the code I'm using inside the "index_style.ist" file for my index (I would like a similar style for the glossary):

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headings_flag 1
heading_prefix "{\\large\\sffamily\\bfseries "
heading_suffix "}\\nopagebreak\n"
% delim_0 " {\\color{gray}\\dotfill} "
% delim_1 " {\\color{gray}\\dotfill} "
% delim_2 " {\\color{gray}\\dotfill} "

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Cham,

you need to run makeglossaries or makeindex, not just do LaTeX runs. It's described in the glossaries manual, can you find it there?

Stefan

[Cham]

I did used the \makeglossaries command (in the preamble). Yet, it doesn't compile a glossary.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

It is a command with the same name, a perl script, that has to run.

Stefan

[Johannes_B]

It is an extra auxiliary program.
You have to call it in a similar way you are calling BibTeX.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

It can even added as "compiler" to editors such as TeXworks, so it's a simple click.

Stefan

[Cham]

Well, is there a way to make that glossary from within LaTeX only, without calling any other special program ?

If LaTeX could compile an index by itself, it should also be able to create a glossary, isn't ?

[Johannes_B]

The index needs an external program as well.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

The external script makeglossaries implicitly runs the external program makeindex. It calls makeindex with suitable options for the glossary to make the life easier. It should be explained at the beginning of the glossaries manual.

Stefan

[Cham]

The index needs an external program as well.

I don't understand this. My index is made from within my installation of LaTeX. I don't use any external program for it, and it compiles fine without a glitch.