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fwolfste

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Registered: 2008-08-04

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[SOLVED] Probably missing nomencl.ist in the texlive package

Hi everybody
I try to tex a thesis, and would like to have a glossary. I use a nice template from http://openwetware.org/wiki/LaTeX_templ … PhD_thesis . Besides that I had to add a \usepackage{ifpdf} I was unable to create a .nls file for the glossary, using makeindex.
In some other forum i found that

$kpsewhich nomencl.ist
$

should point me to the location where the nomenclature style file can be found but there is no result.
Locate gives me an answer, but the file is actually not there:

$locate nomencl.ist
/usr/share/texmf-dist/makeindex/nomencl.ist
$ls /usr/share/texmf-dist/makeindex/
babel  base  index  latex  memoir  mkind-english  mkind-german  plain  stex

Am I missing the file or something else.
Grateful for any hints, please indicate me if this should be posted on a bugtracker or so as well.
Have fun
Felix

Last edited by fwolfste (2008-10-08 17:02:55)

skottish

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Registered: 2006-06-16

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Re: [SOLVED] Probably missing nomencl.ist in the texlive package

It's on my system. It belongs to texlive-latexextra:

[skottish@iasE ~]$ ls -al /usr/share/texmf-dist/makeindex/nomencl | grep nomencl
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 3016 2008-09-14 12:43 nomencl.ist

--EDIT--

Welcome to the forums.

Last edited by skottish (2008-10-08 16:56:55)

fwolfste

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Registered: 2008-08-04

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Re: [SOLVED] Probably missing nomencl.ist in the texlive package

Thanks for the welcoming and the fast reply that solved that topic!
ls returned that the corresponding path could not be found (the __package__ nomencl was found though).

$ ls -al /usr/share/texmf-dist/makeindex/nomencl | grep nomencl
ls: cannot access /usr/share/texmf-dist/makeindex/nomencl: No such file or directory

Installing the proposed packaged solved the issues and output was as skottish has shown
cheers.
Felix

But still, locate should not have pointed me to that adress, should it? Isnt that something to report to the (holy) texlive packers?

Last edited by fwolfste (2008-10-08 17:04:15)

skottish

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Re: [SOLVED] Probably missing nomencl.ist in the texlive package

There are a few ways to go about it. You can file a report in Flyspray (the Bugs link at the top of the BBS). You'll have to register for Flyspray to do that. Or, you can post in this thread:

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=52260

Or, you can get Firmicus' e-mail address from one of his post and contact him directly.

--EDIT--

Ignore the community crap that I wrote if you saw it. Whoops.

Last edited by skottish (2008-10-08 17:40:21)

bender02

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Registered: 2007-02-04

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Re: [SOLVED] Probably missing nomencl.ist in the texlive package

Remember that locate database get updated only once in a while (on my computer it's at midnight each day, and so if the comp isn't turned on then, it doesn't update), so that locate output might be related to you having nomencl installed some time ago.