No nomenclature ouput with LuaTex

plipMan · Post by **plipMan** » Fri Mar 19, 2021 3:24 pm

Hi,

I have the problem that the nomenclature is not displayed in my documents created with LuaTex. Only when I switch to pdflatex is it displayed. If I then switch back to LuaTex, it is still there and is also updated when I add new entries.
That would at least be a workaround, but unfortunately I also have documents with features that pdflatex doesn't support and this procedure doesn't work for them.
Does anyone have an explanation for this strange behaviour?

Regards
Philip

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Post by **Stefan Kottwitz** » Sat Mar 20, 2021 12:49 pm

Hi Philip,

welcome to the forum!

Can you perhaps post both log files (pdfLaTeX and LuaLaTeX run) here, as attachment? The *Attachments* link is below the text edit field, when writing or editing a post here.

Stefan

plipMan · Post by **plipMan** » Mon Mar 22, 2021 8:46 am

Hi Stefan,

can you tell me where I can find this log file? I expected it to be in the same folder as the lyx file but it is not.

Post by **Stefan Kottwitz** » Mon Mar 22, 2021 4:16 pm

Hi Philip,

ist can also be accessed via the LyX main menu, in Document / LaTeX log (for each run, pdfLaTeX and LuaLaTeX).

Stefan

plipMan · Post by **plipMan** » Mon Mar 22, 2021 4:41 pm

Thanks!

Post by **Stefan Kottwitz** » Mon Mar 22, 2021 5:05 pm

It looks like the pdfLaTeX call runs makeindex implicitly, and the LuaLaTeX call doesn't.

It may need to be configured in the LyX compiler settings, or you do it manually on the command prompt, such as

makeindex filename.nlo -s nomencl.ist -o filename.nls

makeindex is the engine behind nomencl.

Stefan

Post by **Stefan Kottwitz** » Mon Mar 22, 2021 5:22 pm

By the way, technically it should work fine with LuaLaTeX. Here's a small example:

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% !TEX lualatex
% !TEX makeindex -s nomencl.ist -o document.nls -t document.nlg document.nlo
\documentclass[oneside,12pt]{article}
\usepackage{nomencl}
\makenomenclature
\begin{document}
\[
e^{\pi i} = 1
\]
\nomenclature{$e$}{Euler's number}
\nomenclature{$i$}{Imaginary unit}
\nomenclature{$\pi$}{Ratio of circumference to diameter}
\printnomenclature    
\end{document}

If you click on "Run LaTeX here", the forum translates it with LuaLaTeX, and the document properties show that it has been produced by LuaTeX-1.12.0.

Also, the corresponding .log file shows This is LuaHBTeX, Version 1.12.0 (TeX Live 2020) (format=lualatex 2021.3.22) when you insert

% !TEX log

at the beginning in the code edit field abolve.

Stefan

plipMan · Post by **plipMan** » Wed Mar 24, 2021 2:36 pm

Stefan Kottwitz wrote: makeindex filename.nlo -s nomencl.ist -o filename.nls
Stefan

What is the meaning of the .nlo and .list files? I can't find any files with these types in my project.

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