General ⇒ glossaries | Xindy doesn't cooperate

[yaxattax]

Hi all,

I've a problem with the makeglossaries script in a document where I am creating some glossaries, but not printing them explicitly using \printglossary or \printglossaries. As a result, Xindy fails to run when I run makeglossaries. If I put a \printglossaries command, makeglossaries runs fine, and then when I run pdfLaTeX again, I comment out the \printglossaries line. Everything is as it should be at this point. I simply do not want the tedium of (un)commenting a line of code to get the output I want - is there a way around this?

Cheers,

Yaqub

[cgnieder]

Hi,

I am a bit puzzled why you're using glossaries if you don't want a glossary in you document… Anyway, the solution seems simple to me: don't use »Xindy«. Since you don't have a glossary you don't need it (or »makeindex«, for that matter) as they're needed for sorting the entries (please correct me if I'm mistaken here).

Regards

[yaxattax]

Hi Clemens,

You are correct - I removed xindy from the options and didn't bother with makeglossaries step and all is fine. I'm just a stupid user Cheers for the advice, much appreciated.

Regards,

Yaqub