MakeIndex, Nomenclature, Glossaries and Acronyms ⇒ Making a glossary

[KBriggs]

Hey all,

I have been googling around for a way to put together a glossary in latex, and I am having no luck. Perhaps someone could point me in the right direction.

I have a file called report.tex. I would like it to have a glossary, so I made the file report.gls, which contains, for example:

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\newglossaryentry{beamwaist}{name={beamwaist}, description={the width of the laser beam at the focus}}

In the document preample in report.tex, I have this:

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\usepackage{glossaries}
\makeglossaries

somewhere in the text of the document I have:

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\gls{beamwaist}

and at the end of the document I have

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\printglossary

When I run this through pdflatex, I get the error:

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! Package glossaries Error: Glossary entry `beamwaist' has not been defined.

If I get rid of report.gls and instead define the terms in the preample, I get a warning saying

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./report.tex:0:No file report.gls

and no glossary is printed

If I just make an empty file called report.gls and define all my glossary entries in the preample, I get no errors, but no glossary is printed (not that I would expect this to fix it, I was just trying things at random at that point)

Can someone point out my error? I am relatively new to latex so I am sure it is something obvious...

[localghost]

You certainly studied the glossaries manual and especially Section 1.4 (Troubleshooting, p. 20ff). It seems that you did not generate the *.gls file as described in the package manual. It is actually very detailed in this regard. For more specific help it will require a minimal example [1]. But you should first follow the instructions in the manual.

[1] View topic: Avoidable mistakes


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten

[KBriggs]

Thanks for the reply. The solution turned out to be as you said: it was necessary to run

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makeglossaries report.glo

from the command line in between two pdflatex calls, with glossary entries either defined in the preamble, or in a document that is \included in the preamble.