General ⇒ Nomenclature and bibliography at end of each chapter

[ChE]

Hi there,

I'm not entirely sure if this is the right place to post this, but I can't think of where else it would be more appropriate. If it's not in the right place, I'd be most grateful if the mods moved it to where they think is better.

Now on to my problem (which I've searched for here and Googled as extensively as I could, with no luck):

I'm writing my Master's dissertation using the "book" class. What I'd like to do is include a "Nomenclature" and "References" section at the end of each chapter, with a list of symbols and references used in that chapter.

I was initially using the "nomencl" package for the nomenclature, and while it produces the right output, I can't see a way of producing chapter-specific nomenclatures.

After searching a bit, I came across the "glossaries" package, which seems appropriate in that one can define a number of glossaries. The problem is that I can't seem to get it to make the glossary. I even tried with the simple example here (http://www.eng.cam.ac.uk/help/tpl/textp ... aries.html) and still no glossary.

I imagine it must be something installation-specific here. I use MikTeX 2.7 complete install, and I've tried the example both with LyX and TeXnicCenter, with no luck. The text in the main body with \gls{label} displays correctly, but there's no glossary. Any ideas as to why this might be?

Is there a way of doing this with "nomencl" rather (I prefer the way it works to "glossaries"). Either way, a solution -- with any package -- is what I'm after! Any thoughts?

Also, as I mentioned at the beginning, I'd like to do the same with references/bibliography. I haven't gotten around to trying this yet, but I imagine it's a similar problem to the previous one.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Regards,
ChE

[localghost]

I'm afraid you have no other choice than using glossaries for your nomenclatures. The issue with the bibliographies for every chapter could be solved with chapterbib. For more information refer to the according manuals. The search function of the forum may yield some solutions.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten¹

[nlct]

Have you remembered to make the glossaries using the perl script makeglossaries, or by explicitly using makeindex or xindy? There's some information on this in the know how section

Also have a look at the list of possible causes in One or more of my glossaries haven't appeared

Regards
Nicola Talbot

[ChE]

Thanks very much to both of you!

After a bit of battling and some reading, I managed to get "glossaries" working in LyX (it still refuses to do so with TeXnicCenter, bizarrely enough, but I only use it for parts where LyX is stubborn). There is one small issue, however: the page header isn't quite right. The header style that the "book" class has is:

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2  CHAPTER 1.   MY SECTION NAME

yet the glossary page (which I have renamed to "Nomenclature"), says:

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10                 Nomenclature

In other words, it doesn't show "CHAPTER X" and is not capitalised. I've searched through the documentation, and I can't seem to find anything to help me sort this out. Any ideas? I imagine it's not too difficult a task; I just don't know how to do it.

Thanks!

Regards,
ChE