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New to Stack Exchange, and using TeX for a week.. Trying to make glossaries work for a larger document, but this even fails with the first example document provided by the glossaries package.. I have: TeXStudio 2.5.2 MikTeX 2.9, Perl Strawberry latest version 32-bit installed and even checked if the PATH was added correctly (after scavanging other answers to posts) (in commandpromt perl -v returns the version.. I checked all the packages needed for the glossaries package. I added a custom user command to add the makeglossaries command available for running. After a first pdfLaTeX compile and run, I get an error when running makeglossaries.

The error message I am getting is:

Process started: "C:/LaTeX/scripts/glossaries/makeglossaries.bat"
makeglossaries: Need exactly one file argument. Use `makeglossaries --help' for help.
Process exited with error(s)

Please help me solve this, I've looked everywhere and long but nothing can be found on this error. The glossary is not created in the pdf, but the first run does create the 1 page document correctly.

The .tex is minimalgls.tex (provided by package):

\documentclass{article}
\listfiles

\usepackage[colorlinks]{hyperref}
 \usepackage{glossaries} % acronym will go in main glossary
 %\usepackage[acronym]{glossaries} % make a separate list of acronyms
\makeglossaries

\newglossaryentry{sample}{name={sample},
description={a sample entry}}

\newacronym[\glsshortpluralkey=cas,\glslongpluralkey=contrived
acronyms]{aca}{aca}{a contrived acronym}

\begin{document}
A \gls{sample} entry and \gls{aca}. Second use: \gls{aca}.

Plurals: \glspl{sample}. Reset acronym\glsreset{aca}.
First use: \glspl{aca}. Second use: \glspl{aca}.

\printglossaries
\end{document}
moewe
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  • thanks for the edits @moewe, how do I create the grey boxes for subsequent questions etc? – Roeland Visser Sep 30 '13 at 15:30
  • Have a look at Markdown help or at the changed code of your question. – moewe Sep 30 '13 at 15:32
  • It sounds like there's a problem with the way that TeXstudio is calling makeglossaries. I don't use TeXstudio, but try How to configure texstudio to use glossaries. How did you add the custom command? – Nicola Talbot Sep 30 '13 at 16:58
  • @Nicola Talbot I have added a user command (options->configure TeXstudio-> tab Build) where you can enter a command by typing a name and a path.. I have tried "C:/LaTeX/miktex/bin/x64/makeglossaries.exe" which is where I found the .exe file, but as the manual said to load the .bat file, I have also tried "C:/LaTeX/scripts/glossaries/makeglossaries.bat".. Both return me the same error message. – Roeland Visser Oct 01 '13 at 08:21
  • @RoelandVisser Did you add % (space followed by percent sign) after the path? (I don't know if the percent sign needs to be in double-quotes. It may need it if you have spaces in your path names.) – Nicola Talbot Oct 01 '13 at 09:10
  • @NicolaTalbot Thanks for looking at it, I did not have the % (space percentsign) after the path. I added it but in both cases (.bat and .exe) I not get the following error message: Error: Could not start the command: "C:/LaTeX/miktex/bin/x64/makeglossaries.exe "minimalgls"". It has now found the right file but can't execute? – Roeland Visser Oct 01 '13 at 10:44
  • I just tried running through the commandpromt, see if other messages would arise.. after a latex myDoc (using the full path for the minimalgls.tex file) I tried makeglossaries myDoc and got the following return: **Call to makeindex failed** Possible cause of problem: Style name indicates makeindex, but may be in xindy format. Remember to use \setStyleFile to specify the name of the style file rather than redefining \istfilename explicitly. Check 'full path\minimalgls.glg' for details` any ideas? – Roeland Visser Oct 01 '13 at 11:18
  • So, dont know if Im making progress or not.. haha.. I edited the path name to go without double '' in front an aft (so only C:/LaTeX/miktex/bin/x64/makeglossaries.exe % is left and then the error I get is 'perl' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. (double checked the PATH cariable and perl responds correctly in commandprompts when executing perl -v.. – Roeland Visser Oct 01 '13 at 11:28
  • @RoelandVisser I didn't create the .exe file, just the .bat file (I assume the .exe file was created by the MikTeX maintainers) but it sounds a bit weird that you can run perl from the command prompt but makeglossaries can't find it. I don't use Windows, so I can't give much more advice, except maybe to use the .bat file and edit it so that it contains the full path to perl.exe – Nicola Talbot Oct 01 '13 at 13:33
  • By now I have tried TexMaker as the editor, added the custom command for makeglossaries and built the .tex file a couple of times as PDF and with the makeglossaries command in the Terminal (-> Tools -> Open Terminal) of TexWorks, which worked.. Still can not trace the problem in TeXStudio.. Thanks for the help anyways... (On my mac the glossaries package worked in 5 minutes, so indeed using windows huh?...) – Roeland Visser Oct 01 '13 at 14:36

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I had the same trouble with TeXstudio on Windows and did not find out to solve it. I finally download Texmaker and follow the step describe in the wiki.

ie:

In Texmaker, go to User -> User Commands -> Edit User Commands.
Chose command 1
Menuitem = makeglossaries
Command = makeglossaries %
Now push Alt+Shift+F1 and then ->F1

You have to download and install Xindy which have Perl included (Perl is necessary to run the makeglossaries script).

Edit: The same solution could be used with TexStudio using the following instruction:

option -> configure TeXstudio ...
in Build add an User Command and fill it as the image bellow.
Now push Alt+Shift+F1 (or Tools -> User -> makeglossaries)

enter image description here

R.Falque
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