[XeTeX] xelatex, memoir and glossaries

Kirk Lowery empirical.humanist at gmail.com
Wed May 7 19:08:17 CEST 2008


On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 11:49 AM, Ulrike Fischer <news2 at nililand.de> wrote:
> Am Wed, 7 May 2008 11:20:20 -0400 schrieb Kirk Lowery:
>
>
>
>  > I'm having a problem creating a glossary and I'm not sure where my problem is.
>  >
>  > I'm using the memoir class. In the preamble, as per instructions, I
>  > have a \makeglossary command, a \printglossary command in the main
>  > file and a couple of \glossary items in the text. I then generate a
>  > pdf file which is supposed to generate all the associated glossary
>  > files.
>  >
>  > The problem: no document.ist file is created. So makeindex fails.
>  >
>  > What am I missing?
>
>  Make a minimal example that demonstrates the problem.

Thank you for this reminder for TeX troubleshooting. It helped me to
"solve" my problem, sort of. I now get a glossary. Here's what I had
to do:

I found the file memmanadd.pdf file (especially pp. 38-40) in the
memoir doc directory. The key insight is that one must *create* the
*.ist file (pg. 40) and provides a minimum example. There's a
memman.gst (note the different extension) that one could hack. The
LaTeX Companion (pp. 659-665) documents the *.ist file format.

One pass of xelatex generates the *.glo file. Then one executes the
command (using my minimal filename)

makeindex -s glossarytest.ist -o glossarytest.gls glossarytest.glo

That generates the *.gls file needed. Now rerun xelatex. The glossary
is created. The minimal *.ist file doesn't create a very pretty
format. I've attached the minimal example, the input style file and
the final pdf.

So it turns out that I needed to learn how memoir does glossaries and
not an xelatex issue at all. Are glossaries as difficult using memoir
and pdflatex? I'd appreciate any tips on how to streamline this
process.

Kirk
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