Re: [Vim-latex-devel] calling makeindex during compilation

[Felipe G. N. <fgn...@te...>]

Thanks for the hints. I was able to adapt compiler.vim and texrc. I'm 
sending the diff, in case anyone else might need it.

cheers.
Felipe.

  Felipe G. Nievinski wrote:
> Re: [Vim-latex-devel] calling makeindex during compilation
> From: Ted Pavlic <ted@te...> - 2008-04-11 13:06
>  > I guess you could do something similar with latex-suites compiler
>  > dependency stuff (see :help compiler-dependency), setting the chain
>  > to nlo,nls,dvi and setting compilation rules for .nls and .nlo. That
>  > would be your homework.
> 
> A few things...
> 
> *) As with makeindex, bibtex, etc., you'll often have to run latex twice
> after the makeindex call:
> 
> latex
> makeindex
> latex
> latex
> 
> In fact, there are some (ALMOST pathological) times when latex will need
> to be run yet again (and possibly makeindex again). Writing a Makefile
> to do all of this isn't trivial (though it's been done -- it's easy to
> find lots of very complete latex Makefile solutions on-line).
> 
> 
> *) If you build all of this logic into your Makefile, you should
> probably turn it off within Vim-LaTeX, or it may try to run LaTeX more
> than it needs to.
> 
> 
> *) I've actually modified my ~/.vim/ftplugin/latex-suite/compiler.vim
> file so that it runs makeindex not only if it sees idx files, but also
> if it sees other files for makeindex (like glo for glossaries or acr for
> acronyms). I'm not comfortable with distributing my own compiler.vim
> (for fear that I'll forget to tell you to also change something in
> texrc), but it may be a good idea to try hacking your own compiler.vim
> so that it responds to new .nlo files. Open up compiler.vim and search
> for "makeindex". You'll find the section. The flow isn't hard to follow.
> 
> 
> Best --
> Ted
> 
> 
> 
> 
>  > Happy hacking (and vimming)
>  >
>  > Martin
>  >
>  >
>  > On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 05:28:26PM -0300, Felipe G. Nievinski wrote:
>  >> Hi.
>  >>
>  >> I'm using the "nomenclature" latex package [1].
>  >>
>  >> It requires the following command
>  >>
>  >> makeindex mydoc.nlo -s nomencl.ist -o mydoc.nls
>  >>
>  >> in between latex runs.
>  >>
>  >> Could you give me a hint on how I could use the Vim-Latex suite to
>  >> automatize that intermediary call to makeindex, please? I'd like to
>  >> keep doing simply \ll, then.
>  >>
>  >> I've tried searching at the mailing list archive, to no avail.
>  >>
>  >> Thanks, Felipe.
>  >>
>  >> [1]
>  >> <http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/nomencl/nomencl.pdf> A
>  >> snippet: The creation of the nomenclature list is very similar to
>  >> the creation of an index [6, App. A]. You need to: o Put
>  >> \usepackage[hoptionsi]{nomencl} in the preamble of your document. o
>  >> Put \makenomenclature in the preamble of your document. o Issue
>  >> the \nomenclature command (see Section 2.2) for each symbol you
>  >> want to have included in the nomenclature list. o Put
>  >> \printnomenclature at the place you want to have your nomenclature
>  >> list.
>  >>
>  >> Now put your file through LATEX. The command \makenomenclature will
>  >> instruct LATEX to open the nomenclature file <filename>.nlo
>  >> corresponding to your LATEX file <filename>.tex and to write the
>  >> information from your \nomenclature commands to this file.
>  >>
>  >> The next step is to invoke MakeIndex. You should instruct MakeIndex
>  >> to use <filename>.nlo as your input file, use nomencl.ist as your
>  >> style file, and write output to the file <filename>.nls. How to do
>  >> this depends on your implementation of MakeIndex. For most UNIX
>  >> implementations you should write something like makeindex
>  >> <filename>.nlo -s nomencl.ist -o <filename>.nls
>  >>
>  >> Now you have the file <filename>.nls that contains your
>  >> nomenclature list properly ordered. The last step is to invoke
>  >> LATEX on your master file <filename>.tex once more. It will input
>  >> your .nls file and process it accordingly to the current options.
>  >> That’s all!
>  >>
>  >>
>  >>