Making glossaires using Texmaker on windows

Question

I've been trying for a while to make my glossaries in texmaker.

I've added a user command that is

latex %

makeglossaries %

latex %

My glossary entries look like this

\newglossaryentry{label}
{
 name={name},
description={description}
}

I've included the glossaries package and called \makeglossaries in my preamble and then called \printglossaries before \end{document}.

I keep getting errors saying name key required or end up with a page after my table of contents that has "description" written 4 times.

I've read up on the glossaries package and read solutions on stack exchange however I'm relativevly new to all of this and can't make sense of any of it.

Could someone explain please?

MWE

\documentclass{report}
\usepackage{glossaries}
\makeglossaries

\begin{document}
\include{glossaryfile.tex}

\gls{term1} is what I want to display. 

\printglossaries
\end{document}

then in the glossary file I have

  \newglosssaryentry{term1}
    {
    name={term 1},
    description={this is the first term}
    }

Answer 1

As is, your MWE will fail because your \newglossaryentry call has an extra s in it.

The glossaries package gives you \loadglsentries{glossaryfile} to import your entries cleanly after \makeglossaries.

You shouldn't have any problems with new lines and tabs in your \newglossaryentry.

With those comments, your MWE becomes

\documentclass{report}
\usepackage{glossaries}
\makeglossaries

\loadglsentries{glossaryfile}

\begin{document}


    \gls{term1} is what I want to display. 

    \printglossaries
\end{document}

and glossaryfile.tex becomes

\newglossaryentry{term1}
{
    name={term 1},
    description={this is the first term}
}