Document Classes ⇒ nomencl | List of Symbols does not appear

[The_gardener]

Hello guys,

I am trying to include a List of symbols in my document. I looked up several descriptions, using the nomencl package (e.g. http://texblog.org/) but it does not work, using the following code:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{nomencl}
\makenomenclature
\renewcommand{\nomname}{List of symbols}
\begin{document}
\printnomenclature
$\alpha$ and $\beta$.
\nomenclature{$\beta$}{la}
\nomenclature{$\alpha$}{le}

I do not get any errors but no list of symbols either .

First I compile using "LaTeX", then again using "MakeIndex" and then "PDFLaTeX". Is there something wrong with this? Do I need to install the package separately?

Running MakeIndex I get the following result:

Process started

This is makeindex, version 2.15 [TeX Live 2010] (kpathsea + Thai support). Scanning input file xy.idx...done (0 entries accepted, 0 rejected). Nothing written in xy.ind. Transcript written in xy.ilg.

Process exited normally

I am using TeXmaker on a Mac OS X15.8. I am grateful for any suggestions.


Regards,
David

[cgnieder]

As the documentation (nomencl) to nomencl states you have to call makeindex this way:

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

replacing <filename> with the name of you file, of course.

Regards

[The_gardener]

Thanks Clemens,
I am just not sure where to enter the makeindex specifications.

My only idea is Texmaker/Preferences/makeindex, although by default it states: "/usr/texbin/makeindex" %.idx