From: Alexander G. <A....@fz...> - 2008-03-25 14:10:48
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On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 09:08:02PM +0100, Cornelius C. Noack wrote: >On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, Alexander Grahn wrote: > >> Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 15:13:29 +0100 >> From: Alexander Grahn <A....@fz...> >> Reply-To: A place for MiKTeX users to discuss MiKTeX related questions. >> <mik...@li...> >> To: A place for MiKTeX users to discuss MiKTeX related questions. >> <mik...@li...> >> Subject: [MiKTeX] makeindex program error >> >> Hi, >> >> I am trying to create a nomenclature using the nomencl package for the >> following document (ex.tex): >> >> \documentclass{article} >> \usepackage[norefeq,norefpage]{nomencl}\makenomenclature >> >> \begin{document} >> \begin{equation} >> E=m c^2 >> \end{equation}% >> \nomenclature{$E$}{energy}% >> \nomenclature{$m$}{mass}% >> \nomenclature{$c$}{speed of light} >> >> \printnomenclature >> \end{document} >> >> According to the nomencl docs, I have to run makeindex after a first LaTeX run: >> >> latex ex >> makeindex ex.nlo -s nomencl.ist -o ex.nls >> >> But makeindex crashes early, printing the following message into a pop-up: >> >> AppName: makeindex.exe AppVer: 2.7.2831.0 ModName: msvcr90.dll >> ModVer: 9.0.21022.8 Offset: 000369de >> >> MiKTeX-2.7 and packages are up-to-date. >> >> Alexander >> >I am not at all familiar with the nomencl package, so I cannot say >wether you used it in the way it's meant to be used (I took a short >glance at the nomencl.pdf, but did not study it in detail ...). > >So I just took your example and ran it > [ latex -> latex -> makeindex -> latex -> dvips ] > >No problems at all; but it just produced one page with the one >equation E=mc^2 (as expected), but no extra printed nomenclature >appeared - that's not what you wanted, right? On my Linux box, however, the command sequence latex ex makeindex ex.nlo -s nomencl.ist -o ex.nls latex ex produces a nicely formatted list of symbols. I'll file a bug report. Alexander PS: On a Win-2003 box, makeindex crashes without notification. There is no ex.nls being written. The above mentioned pop-up box occurs on Win-XP only. |