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Someone mentioned in How to create glossary entries for custom notation with arguments? that the nomencl package can do almost what I want the glossaries package to do. Has someone used this package recently? I can't figure out how to make it work.

Compiling the following code with latexmk -pdf creates a file thest.nlo, but then complains about a missing test.nls file.

\documentclass[11pt]{report}   
\usepackage{nomencl}
\makenomenclature
\begin{document}    
\section{A test section}
\label{lab.test.section}

\nomenclature{$\bigcap$}{Unary intersection operator. Section~\ref{lab.test.section}, page~\pageref{lab.test.section}.}

If $V$ is a set of subsets of $U$, then we define the unary
$\bigcap$ operator as follows...

\appendix

\chapter{Test chapter}

\printnomenclature

\end{document}

And the documentation https://www.sharelatex.com/learn/Nomenclatures doesn't seem to mention needing to run any external program.

I took a look at How to compile \nomencl in order to have a list of abbreviation? But when I try to run

makeindex test.nlo -s test.ist -o test.nls

I get an error: Index style file test.ist not found.

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  • Your code works fine when I throw it in my editor and compile it there. I am using Overleaf v2 with pdfLaTeX as the compiler. – Flexo013 Jul 12 '18 at 12:54
  • It is quite complicated knowing which latex frontend to use. Different ones do different things and not others apparently. I'm currently changing from texi2dvi to latexmk. Are you suggesting I don't use latexmk, but rather pdfLaTeX instead? Isn't it the case that pdfLaTeX doesn't know how to resolve the references, thus I need to run something like latexmk instead? – Jim Newton Jul 12 '18 at 12:58
  • So I tried with pdfLaTex, and it does not create any nomenclature output. Flexo013, can you verify that when you ran it, that it indeed created the correct content of Appendix A complete with title "Test chapter" and the simply nomenclature list of one item? – Jim Newton Jul 12 '18 at 13:01
  • Try makeindex test.nlo -s nomencl.ist -o test.nls instead. Then run pdflatex on test.tex again – Troy Jul 12 '18 at 13:09
  • @JimNewton The pdf output looks like this (very zoomed out) – Flexo013 Jul 12 '18 at 13:11
  • Hi Troy, when i try to run makeindex as you suggest, I get the error message: Index style file test.ist not found. And then a usage string. – Jim Newton Jul 12 '18 at 13:18
  • I said nomencl.ist, not test.ist. – Troy Jul 12 '18 at 13:21
  • ahhh. need to check my eyes. when I use 's nomencl.ist it works much better. Thanks. – Jim Newton Jul 12 '18 at 13:25

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