[OS X TeX] Use of nomencl with TeXShop
Christian Burk
maillists at gmx.de
Fri Jan 5 20:47:24 CET 2007
Am 04.01.2007 um 20:31 schrieb Joshua Smith:
> On Jan 4, 2007, at 2:32 AM, Christian Burk wrote:
>
>> I try to use the package nomencl to create a list of explanations
>> for mathematical terms.
>>
>> The version of nomencl.sty is v4.1.
>>
>> [snip]
>>
>> I have these files: the *.nlo in my project folder and the
>> nomencl.ist in the downloaded nomecl-folder on my desktop. But
>> where do I have to put these files that TeXShop will find it?
>
> If you are using the latest installation of gwTeX, version 4.2 of
> nomencl is included with TeX Live by default. What you need is an
> engine within TeXShop to process your nomenclature. Within ~/
> Library/TeXShop/Engines, duplicate XeTeX.engine and rename it
> MakeNomenclature.engine (or something similar). Open the file with
> your favorite text editor and replace the contents with
>
> #!/bin/sh
>
> bfname=$(dirname "$1")/"`basename "$1" .tex`"
> makeindex "$bfname".nlo -s nomencl.ist -o "$bfname".nls
>
> Save the file and restart TeXShop. In the drop down menu next to
> Typeset, you should see MakeNomenclature (or whatever you called
> it). Choose that and hit Typeset.
After a run with MakeNomenclature a *.nls file was created but
unfortunately this is empty.
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