General ⇒ Problem with Glossaries package

[JPdaFonseca]

Hi, All!

First post in this Forum...

I am concluding my Ph.D. Thesis, and I have changed recently from a Windows XP environment using Latex, to the Ubuntu OS (version 9.1). I am using the inbuilt Tex Live distribution, prepared by Synaptic, and Texmaker as the editor. I am also using IEEEtran for bibliography style and the trackchanges package. These are not installed as they should, just on the folder where I have the preamble and the main tex files.

I am also using a class file prepared by other colleagues here at the TU Delft, given that I am not a "power user" of Latex, and do not know about configuring such files.

Anyway, I have managed to install properly the glossaries package, checking the local and distribution trees through texmf.cnf and then making a texhash. The sample of glossaries did work well, and a Glossay entry was printed, so makeglossaries is working, and of course, Perl scripting!

But when I tried some initial entries on my Thesis, I have received the error message: "No \@istfilename found" after running makeglossaries.
There is a .glo and a .ist file in my main folder, but there is no ist entry in the .aux file.

Note: my main latex file is working by including all the other files, so it starts by including the preamble file, and then each chapter and the annexes. The concluding commands build the bibliography.

Note2: the glossary entries and acronyms I have used so far are showing up properly in the final pdf, but I am using a non standard build process. This goes from producing a dvi, then dvips and finally generating the pdf from my CUPS-pdf printer.

Any clues as to the reason for minimalgls has worked but my Thesis don't? Please help!

[nlct]

Without any sample code to look at, the only thing I can think of is that maybe you've forgotten to use \makeglossaries in the preamble.

Regards
Nicola Talbot

[JPdaFonseca]

Dear Nicola:

You are evidently right about the code.
However, I am afraid I do not know sufficiently about Latex to send you the right set of files (or logs?) to look at. So, making my "guestimate", I have prepared a zip which contains the full aux, ist and glo files for the preamble (setup) and the main (DMILC_Thesis) files. I have also added extracts with the relevant glossaries code and some context, for the tex files concerning the preamble, main file and chapter 1 file which shows the use of the entries in the text.

If you require any other file, please tell!

[nlct]

I can't make anything out of those files. You really need to provide a minimal working example. Try reading the Hacking Down section in my Creating a LaTeX Minimal Example guide.

Regards
Nicola Talbot

[JPdaFonseca]

Dear Nicola:

Quite some time from my last post. I have read your page about the minimal example and so I worked out my own, using the same structure as in my thesis, that is, included preamble and chapter files in a main tex file.

Quite surprisingly, it worked only the very first time it was run, and from there on, it repeats the same error. Even when I clean all the LateX generated files and process the main file again.

However, I found out that if I manually paste the following lines into main.aux and run the makeglossaries command, and then the latex command, it compiles successfully:

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\@newglossary{main}{glg}{gls}{glo}
\@istfilename{main.ist}
\@glsorder{word}

Please tell me if you compile successfully (and again, after you have done a small change to main or chap1).

[nlct]

Change

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\include{preamble}

to

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\input{preamble}

(\include isn't needed in this instance as you just want to input the contents of the file without doing anything else.)

Regards
Nicola Talbot

[JPdaFonseca]

Dear Nicola:

OK, now it works!

I have tested with my thesis, with all the other packages it loads, and is compiling just fine. A very simple solution, but giving me much trouble in the meanwhile.

Thanks for your patience and good lessons about the workings of latex,
Kind Regards

[localghost]

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Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten