[OS X TeX] making an index (nomenclature)

[Nicolae Garleanu]

Thanks, John and Herb.

I ran the makeindex command from the terminal prompt, and then got the pdf output expected. I conclude that neither makeindex, nor latexmk — which I used exactly as detailed by Herb — work for me. As I said, I never did anything specific to set them up, but I also didn’t know — even now I don’t know — that I had to. 

Is there a quick way to find out how to set these up?

Nicolae



> On Feb 5, 2024, at 14:48, John Collins <jcc8 at psu.edu> wrote:
> 
> It's worth adding that to make the kind of index used by the nomenclature package, the command line to invoke makeindex is not the one for a standard index, but a modified one.  Here's what the documentation for the nomencl package says to do:
> 
>    makeindex ⟨filename⟩.nlo -s nomencl.ist -o ⟨filename⟩.nls
> 
> As Herb explained, the pdflatexmk engine in TeXShop (and its xelatexmk etc relatives) provide a special configuration to latexmk to get makeindex invoked appropriately for the nomenclature.
> 
> John Collins
> 
> 
> On 2/5/24 3:18 PM, Herbert Schulz via MacOSX-TeX wrote:
>>> On Feb 5, 2024, at 1:09 PM, Nicolae Garleanu <nbgarleanu at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> Hi Herb,
>>> Yes, I think it is pdflatex, although I do not remember (I think I used to
>>> know, at least) why in the Typeset menu Pdftex is checked (as is LaTeX).
>>> More important, I put % !TEX program = pdflatexmk as the first line of the
>>> document (I tried both before and after \document class — I used the
>>> syntax %TEX root = …, after \documentclass, with success in other files).
>>> As before, no new file other than the .nlo, but no error on executing.
>>> I haven’t tried the terminal, but I wonder whether that is the most
>>> efficient way to uncover the problem. I had a quick look over the .log
>>> file for anything that would catch my eye, and did see "No file
>>> Try-nomencl.nls,” which didn’t surprise me, but I don’t know why this file
>>> failed to be produced. Maybe I should also say that I never did anything
>>> actively to set up pdflatexmk. Were it not for Overleaf, I would keep
>>> thinking that I have a syntax error vis-a-vis the nomenclature package.
>>> Nicolae
>> Howdy,
>> How did you typeset the file? Did you use Typeset->Typeset (Cmd-T)?
>> I usually put it at the top of the file but within the first 20 lines of the
>> file is OK too.
>> When I typeset using the pdflatexmk engine it all automatically gets
>> compiled (no need for separate runs of pdflatex, makeindex, pdflatex the
>> engine takes care of everything and teXShop configures things so that the
>> engine knows how to deal with .nlo files, etc. I get a fully typeset file
>> with the nomenclature there.
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