Using Arara on windows in Texstudio to generate glossaries

Question

I am trying to generate glossaries in my LaTeX document using the article class and am using TeXStudio

I used the below code but nothing gets printed

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{titlesec}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[hidelinks]{hyperref}
\usepackage{glossaries}

\makeglossaries

\newglossaryentry{culdesac}{name=cul-de-sac,description={passage or street closed at one end},plural=culs-de-sac}

\newacronym{led}{LED}{light-emitting-diode}
\begin{document}
\section{This is my section}

Some text

\end{document}

I googled and found out that I would need Arara to generate and print glossaries. I installed Arara.exe under C:\Program Files\arara\

and made a new command based on below link

How to configure TexStudio editor to use glossaries package with makeglossaries and xindy or how to configure TexStudio to use arara?

But I am getting the error :

Error: Could not start the command: C:\Program Files\arara\arara.exe -v -l "my_text_file"

Can someone help me please?

I just want to print acronyms and glossaries in my article.

Arara is definitely not needed to generate glossaries, it may however make the process easier. Did you read the excellent glossaries manual? What happens if you run arara.exe from your command line? — Uwe Ziegenhagen, Mar 24 '14 at 20:27
Where do i find "excellent glossaries manual", can you provide me with a link. I am getting really frustrated at now being able to generate glossaries and acronyms. Can you help me with a short working example on how to print them in article class? — MSB, Mar 24 '14 at 20:32
Have a look at http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/glossaries, this page has a few PDFs. — Uwe Ziegenhagen, Mar 24 '14 at 20:32
Go to command prompt, and type arara --version. What do you get? — , Mar 24 '14 at 23:19
OK, Then simply try to put arara -v -l % | | txs:///view. It should work. This may be useful too: Has anyone managed to use \glossaries with TeXstudio on Windows? :) — , Mar 24 '14 at 23:25
Hi @Harish ; Thanks a lot for the link. It was also really helpful ! :) — MSB, Mar 25 '14 at 15:48

Uwe Ziegenhagen · Accepted Answer · 2014-03-24T20:47:02.223

I guess you need to differentiate between a) creating glossaries and b) controlling the process from your editor. With b) I can't help as I am not using TeXstudio.

Save the following document under the name sample.tex (the name is important!)

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[colorlinks,linkcolor=blue]{hyperref}
\usepackage[style=long,toc,acronym=true]{glossaries}

\newglossaryentry{Perl}{name=\texttt{Perl},sort=Perl,description=A scripting language}

\newacronym{svm}{SVM}{Support Vector Machine}
\newacronym{xml}{XML}{Extensible Markup Language}

\makeglossaries

\begin{document}

\gls{Perl}

\gls{svm}

\printglossaries
\end{document}

Run the sample.tex through the LaTeX compiler of your choice, I usually use pdflatex

Run the next two commands from a) the command line or b) save them in a file with the extension .bat

makeindex -s sample.ist -t sample.glg -o sample.gls sample.glo
makeindex -s sample.ist -t sample.alg -o sample.acr sample.acn

Run LaTeX again on the TeX file. You should get the following PDF:

glossaries

I nevertheless strongly recommend Nicolas manual, as the above code is a few years old (I took it from my example repository) and things may have changed in the meantime. Concerning arara I have created a short description for TeXworks, it may help you as well: http://uweziegenhagen.de/?p=2928

If you are not able to open a command window and run arara.exe I would guess the path setting is somehow corrupt. In this case locate arara.exe on your computer and add the directory it is located in to the Windows path variable.

Hello - Thanks a lot for the detailed reply. It worked like charm ! Much appreciated ! — MSB, Mar 24 '14 at 23:20

Using Arara on windows in Texstudio to generate glossaries

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