General ⇒ glossaries | No Lists of Acronyms and Symbols

[ChinchillaTerremoto]

Dear all,

I'm not very familiar with LaTeX however I decided to write my PhD thesis with it and it is done, but unfortunately I'm trying to create a list at the beginning of the document with the acronyms and symbols used and I am having problems. I have tried with the glossaries and with the nomencl package without success. I am using Temaker, MiKTeX, Windows 7, and Strawberry Perl. I manage to create a .glo document and the PDF, but no glossary appears. I include two very simple programs that I wrote after reading all the manuals and posts, I am using them just to test that I manage to run the packages. The first one with glossaries is:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{glossaries}
\makeglossaries
\newglossaryentry{label1}
 {
   name=name1,
   description={description1},
}
\begin{document}
sample...\gls{label1}

\printglossaries
\end{document}

I have also tried changing the command line

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\usepackage{glossaries}

by

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\usepackage[toc, xindy]{glossaries}

But when I run LaTeX (I'm not using PDFLaTeX because in my thesis all the figures have EPS format, so I do prefer to run latex at this stage) it appears this error:

Process started

latex: Cannot start MiKTeX package manager. latex: Data: Invalid syntax

Process exited normally

I did install the package from MiKTeX Package Manager, so I do not understand why it is saying invalid syntax.

Also, alternatively, if I try with the nomencl package in a simple trial:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{nomencl}
\makenomenclature
\begin{document}
trying...
\nomenclature{$Symbol1$}{Description1}
\nomenclature{$Symbol2$}{Description2}
\printnomenclature
\end{document}

This time there is no error at all and the .nlo file is created, but still the PDF does not output the list with the nomenclature.

Please, would you mind helping me out? I am really struggling and I just need this last bit to finish my thesis, after four years! Please!
I'm sure it is something obvious I am just overseeing!

Thank you in advance.

[cgnieder]

This may be a stupid question but you did run

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> makeglossaries yourfilename

didn't you?

[ChinchillaTerremoto]

Dear Clemens,

thank you, it was actually dead easy. I was not really sure were to run 'makeglossaries myfile'. This was the problem! But after your comment and the useful website

http://the-moni-blog.blogspot.com/2009/ ... er-on.html

I followed step by step what they said (because I am using windows) and, as I have Strawberry Perl installed it was actually easy.

Thank you again!