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I am writing a paper for elsevier journal, and I am using the new single column template (2023), I am trying to add the nomenclature to the paper, with the classical steps I have been done in the past:

\usepackage{makeidx}

\makeindex %


\renewcommand{\nomgroup}[1]{%
    \ifthenelse{\equal{#1}{S}}{\item[\textit{Symbols}]}{%
        \ifthenelse{\equal{#1}{B}}{\item[\textit{Subscripts}]}{}
    }
}
%
\makenomenclature
\setlength{\nomitemsep}{-\parskip} % Baseline skip between items
\renewcommand\nompreamble{\begin{multicols}{2}}
\renewcommand\nompostamble{\end{multicols}}

and then:

\begin{table*}[!t]   
\begin{framed}

\nomenclature{\textit{V${c}$}}{Clearance volume}
\nomenclature{\textit{V${d}$}}{Displacement volume}


\printnomenclature
\end{framed}
\end{table*}

and it does not work.... I use the windows command prompt with the classical command line:

"makeindex .nlo -s nomencl.ist -o .nls"

and then compile PDF, and them makeindex again and it does not work..

I get an error:

Couldn't find input index file "xxxxxxx" nor xxxxxxx.idx. Usage: makeindex [-ilqrcgLT] [-s sty] [-o ind] [-t log] [-p num] [idx0 idx1 ...]

Can someone give me a help? please?

The elsevier 2023 single column template is at:

https://www.elsevier.com/authors/policies-and-guidelines/latex-instructions

Thanks a lot!!

Leonel.

Leonel
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  • Welcome to TeX.SE. – Mico Feb 25 '23 at 02:09
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    Off-topic: Please replace \textit{V$_{c}$} with $V_c$ and \textit{V$_{d}$} with $V_d$. – Mico Feb 25 '23 at 02:11
  • Hello Mico, thanks, I did... still not working... – Leonel Feb 25 '23 at 02:15
  • Note that I prefaced my comment with "off-topic". – Mico Feb 25 '23 at 03:14
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    @Leonel The error seems straightforward, the file you're running makeindex on is not in the current working directory. If latex is running successfully then nomenclature should be generating a foo.nlo, and makeindex foo.nlo ... should be giving a different error. Is your latex compilation successful? Does it generate a foo.nlo auxiliary file? If it is there, does running makeindex foo.nlo from a terminal in the working directory still give the "Couldn't find input index file" error? – Dai Bowen Mar 03 '23 at 20:11

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