[Tugindia] \nomenclature in Texmaker?

Sebastian Vattamattam vattamattam at dataone.in
Sat Aug 23 02:49:04 CEST 2008


Thank you very much. Let me try that.
Sebastian Vattamattam
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From: "S. venkataraman" <svenkat at ignou.ac.in>
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Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 2:48 PM
Subject: Re: [Tugindia] \nomenclature in Texmaker?


>I am not very familiar with texmaker.
> You can carry out step 5 as follows:
> You can
> run it from the command prompt.
> Click Start->run
> type cmd.exe
> change to the directory containing the file.
> Run the command
> <path to makeindex executable>\makeindex file.nlo -s nomencl.ist -o 
> file.nls
> Note: I am assuming that you are using miktex 2.7.  Check the name of the
> executable file(.exe file) of the make index program and make sure it is
> makeindex.exe
> Hope this helps.
> Regards,
> S. Venkataraman
>
> On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 4:10 PM, Shruthi Jayaram <
> shruthi.jayaram.85 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> I am trying to make a List of Abbreviations in my document and have
>> been following the steps below, but am not sure how to do step 5,
>> given that I am not working in a Unix environment and that I am
>> working in Texmaker for Windows.
>> Would be grateful for any help on this!
>> Thanks,
>> Shruthi
>>
>>
>> 1. Insert \usepackage{nomencl} and \makenomenclature at the beginning
>> of the tex file (before \begin{document}).
>> 2. Insert \printnomenclature[distance] at that position in the tex
>> file, where the list of abbreviations should be listed. The parameter
>> distance defines the distance (e.g. 2.5 cm) between Abbreviation and
>> Explanation.
>> 3. Insert the abbreviation in the tex as short and long form:
>> \nomenclature{Abbr}{Abbreviation}
>> 4. Execute latex file.tex twice.
>> 5. Execute makeindex file.nlo -s nomencl.ist -o file.nls
>> 6. Execute latex file.tex
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