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I'm working on a large project (3 volumes of about 500 pages each), and I'm using bib2gls to manage my glossaries. In order to save compilation time I started using arara with conditionals like in How to tell Arara to skip redundant steps? but I cannot figure out how to pass a conditional to run bib2gls only when I add another instance of a glossary entry in my document, say \gls{example}.

I've tried adding % arara: bib2gls if changed ('glg') || changed ('glstex') assuming that I've made a previous run so that both MyDoc.glg and MyDoc.glstex already exists. I don't understand how bib2gls works but I noticed that MyDoc.glstex changes by adding the example information after running bib2gls. So I'm lost here.

I would appreciate any ideas or insight about bib2gls to solve my problem.

Edit: a MWE

MyDoc.tex:

% arara: xelatex
% arara: biber if missing('bbl') || found('log', 'Citation')
% arara: --> || changed (toFile('MyBibliography.bib'))
% arara: bib2gls if missing('glstex') || changed ('glg') 
% arara: --> || changed ('glstex') || changed (toFile('MyGlos.bib'))
% arara: xelatex until !found('log', '\\(?(R|r)e\\)?run (to get|LaTeX)')

\documentclass{book}


\usepackage[backend=biber, style=numeric]{biblatex}
\usepackage{csquotes}
\usepackage[colorlinks]{hyperref}
\usepackage[record,index,postdot]{glossaries-extra}
\usepackage{glossary-bookindex}


\setglossarystyle{bookindex}
\renewcommand{\glsxtrbookindexcols}{3}
\newglossary{ind}{ing}{ige}{My Index}
\GlsXtrLoadResources[
 src=MyGloss,
 type=ind,
]


\addbibresource{MyBibliography.bib}


\begin{document}


Test \gls{hi} as seen in~\cite{blah}


\printunsrtglossary[type=ind, style=bookindex]


\printbibliography


\end{document}

MyGloss.bib:

@index{hi,
    name = {Hello World!},
}

@index{foo,
    name = {Foo},
}

MyBlibliography.bib:

@book{blah,
    author = {The Author},
    publisher = {Publisher},
    title = {An imortant book},
    year = {2020}
}

Finally, my first run: enter image description here And my second run:enter image description here

Luis Turcio
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  • Please add an MWE to allow testing for anybody. I thnk that arara cant do this, because after first LaTeX run there are no bi2gls files. Best way would be to use latexmk via arara and setup latexmk in such a way to detect if it is needed to run bib2gls or not. I am not proficient with latexmk, so I dont know how to do that - but latexmk is scanning .aux file for clues, which is exactly what you are asking to do. – Tomáš Kruliš Oct 19 '20 at 08:03
  • @TomášKruliš Thanks for the comment, I added a MWE and I'll start reading about latexmk – Luis Turcio Oct 19 '20 at 13:25
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    It seems to me that bib2gls always writes .glstex and .glg files. I guess that latexmk could be suitable to control this. – Tomáš Kruliš Oct 19 '20 at 13:59
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    An elaboration of how to use bib2gls with latexmk should be here: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/400325/latexmkrc-for-bib2gls The issue is not very old (so theres big chance it will work without making changes) but the code looks pretty advanced (to me at least). – Tomáš Kruliš Oct 19 '20 at 14:02
  • I’ll start working with that file, thanks for you comments – Luis Turcio Oct 19 '20 at 16:23

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