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I am working on a paper and tried to include an acronym file. So what I did for that so far is:

  1. Including glossaries package in the header protion of my document: \usepackage[acronym,toc]{glossaries}
  2. Including a \makeglossaries in the header.
  3. Including my acronyms file and a printglossaries in the actual document: \input{acronyms}
    \printglossaries

Running makeglossaries script shows the following:

makeglossaries template_diplomarbeit  
added glossary type 'acronym' (alg,acr,acn)  
makeindex  -s "template_diplomarbeit.ist" -t "template_diplomarbeit.alg" -o "template_diplomarbeit.acr" "template_diplomarbeit.acn"  
This is makeindex, version 2.15 [20-Nov-2007] (kpathsea + Thai support).  
Scanning style file ./template_diplomarbeit.ist...........................done   (27 attributes redefined, 1 ignored).  
Scanning input file template_diplomarbeit.acn....done (18 entries accepted, 0 rejected).  
Sorting entries....done (75 comparisons).  
Generating output file template_diplomarbeit.acr....done (45 lines written, 0 warnings).  
Output written in template_diplomarbeit.acr.  
Transcript written in template_diplomarbeit.alg.  
makeindex  -s "template_diplomarbeit.ist" -t "template_diplomarbeit.glg" -o "template_diplomarbeit.gls" "template_diplomarbeit.glo"  
This is makeindex, version 2.15 [20-Nov-2007] (kpathsea + Thai support).  
Scanning style file ./template_diplomarbeit.ist...........................done   (27 attributes redefined, 1 ignored).  
Scanning input file template_diplomarbeit.glo...done (0 entries accepted, 0 rejected).  
Nothing written in template_diplomarbeit.gls.  
Transcript written in template_diplomarbeit.glg.

The result is no glossary or acronyms included anywhere.

However when I include the glossaries package without the acronym option (=acronyms are included in the glossary instead of giving them their own list) my list of acronyms shows up.

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    Scanning input file template_diplomarbeit.glo...done (0 entries accepted, 0 rejected). there are no entries in the .glo file. The acronym file seems to be ok. Create a small example file which defines an entry for the glossary.
    – user2478
    Commented Feb 6, 2011 at 12:29

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If I understand this correctly you still need to use the acronyms in the document with macros like \gls or \glslink. The entries in the acronyms file only define the acronyms, but only the one which are actually used in the document will be listed.

The idea behind this is that you can have a central acronyms definition file used by many different documents, but only the one you actually use in the current document are really displayed. Its the same for .bib file and BibTeX.

See the glossaries manual, especially section 1.4 Q10 on page 22, for more information.

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  • The weird thing is that there are uses of the glossary entries. However the files using them get inlined to the doucment (via input) after the printglossaries. Could that be an issue?
    – er4z0r
    Commented Feb 6, 2011 at 13:54
  • @er4z0r: The position of \printglossaries should not be the issue. More important is where you define the entries. They should be defined before they are used, best in the preamble. As @Herbert already mentioned it is best to make a minimal working example to show how you using the glossaries macros.
    – Martin Scharrer
    Commented Feb 6, 2011 at 14:11
  • is there an analogue of \nocite{*} for acronyms?
    – Seamus
    Commented Feb 9, 2011 at 14:43
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    @Seamus: With the glossaries package it is \glsaddall.
    – Martin Scharrer
    Commented Feb 9, 2011 at 14:47

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