makeglossaries hangs waiting for input on mac

Question

I'm very new to Latex so apologies if this is a newbie question. However I have looked around online and can't find an answer.

I'm trying to compile my file in TeXShop (on mac) using the following but I'm not sure how to go about it (using the 'Typeset' button alone is not sufficient). Please can someone help me out?

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makeglossaries
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When I tried compiling the document with the script provided it got stuck. Here is a screenshot of what I see:

Answer 1

You create a file with

#!/bin/sh 
bfname=$(dirname "$1")/"`basename "$1" .tex`"  
pdflatex --shell-escape "$1"
makeindex -s "$bfname".ist -t "$bfname".glg -o "$bfname".gls "$bfname".glo 
pdflatex --shell-escape "$1" 
pdflatex --shell-escape "$1" 

You save this file with a name like glossaries.engine inside
/Users/yourusername/Library/TeXShop/Engines

You need also to make excutable the script :

Go to the terminal : cd ~/Library/TeXShop/Engines and then chmod u+x glossaries.engine use the name of your engine.

Then you can compile with the engine glossaries . Before to click on the compilation button, you need to chice the engine inside the list near the button "typeset", I suppose because in french, i have a "composition" button.

Answer 2

Here's a modification to Alain Matthes' answer that determines whether to use makeglossaries (makeindex/xindy) or bib2gls. Edit the glossaries.engine file to:

#!/bin/sh 

bfname=${1%\.*}

pdflatex "$1"

if grep -q "glsxtr@resource" "$bfname.aux"; then
  bib2gls --group "$bfname"

  # hybrid
  if grep -q "@istfilename" "$bfname.aux"; then
    pdflatex "$1"
    makeglossaries "$bfname"
  fi

elif grep -q "@istfilename" "$bfname.aux"; then
  makeglossaries "$bfname"
fi

pdflatex "$1"

This should work for all the following documents:

1. \makenoidxglossaries & \printnoidxglossary:

   \documentclass{article}
   
   \usepackage[acronym,symbols]{glossaries}
   
   \makenoidxglossaries
   
   % define entry in default 'main' glossary:
   \newglossaryentry{sample}{name={sample},description={an example}}
   
   % define entry in 'acronym' glossary:
   \newacronym{ex}{EX}{example}
   
   % define entry in 'symbols' glossary:
   \newglossaryentry{fx}{name={\ensuremath{f(x)}},
    sort={fx},
    description={a function of $x$},
    type=symbols
   }
   
   \begin{document}
   A \gls{sample} document with an \gls{ex} function \gls{fx}.
   
   \printnoidxglossary % default: type=main
   \printnoidxglossary[type=acronym]
   \printnoidxglossary[type=symbols]
   \end{document}
   

2. \makeglossaries & \printglossary and makeindex:

   \documentclass{article}
   
   \usepackage[acronym,symbols]{glossaries}
   
   \makeglossaries
   
   % define entry in default 'main' glossary:
   \newglossaryentry{sample}{name={sample},description={an example}}
   
   % define entry in 'acronym' glossary:
   \newacronym{ex}{EX}{example}
   
   % define entry in 'symbols' glossary:
   \newglossaryentry{fx}{name={\ensuremath{f(x)}},
    sort={fx},
    description={a function of $x$},
    type=symbols
   }
   
   \begin{document}
   A \gls{sample} document with an \gls{ex} function \gls{fx}.
   
   \printglossary % default: type=main
   \printglossary[type=acronym]
   \printglossary[type=symbols]
   \end{document}
   

3. \makeglossaries & \printglossary and xindy:

   \documentclass{article}
   
   \usepackage[xindy,acronym,symbols]{glossaries}
   
   \makeglossaries
   
   % define entry in default 'main' glossary:
   \newglossaryentry{sample}{name={sample},description={an example}}
   
   % define entry in 'acronym' glossary:
   \newacronym{ex}{EX}{example}
   
   % define entry in 'symbols' glossary:
   \newglossaryentry{fx}{name={\ensuremath{f(x)}},
    description={a function of $x$},
    type=symbols
   }
   
   \begin{document}
   A \gls{sample} document with an \gls{ex} function \gls{fx}.
   
   \printglossary % default: type=main
   \printglossary[type=acronym]
   \printglossary[type=symbols]
   \end{document}
   

4. bib2gls:

   \RequirePackage{filecontents}
   \begin{filecontents*}{terms.bib}
   @entry{sample,
     name = {sample},
     description = {an example}
   }
   \end{filecontents*}
   
   \begin{filecontents*}{abbrvs.bib}
   @abbreviation{ex,
     short = {EX},
     long = {example}
   }
   \end{filecontents*}
   
   \begin{filecontents*}{syms.bib}
   @symbol{fx,
     name = {\ensuremath{f(x)}},
     description = {a function of $x$}
   }
   \end{filecontents*}
   
   \documentclass{article}
   
   \usepackage[record,abbreviations,symbols]{glossaries-extra}
   
   \GlsXtrLoadResources[src={terms,abbrvs}]
   
   \GlsXtrLoadResources[src={syms},type={symbols}]
   
   \begin{document}
   A \gls{sample} document with an \gls{ex} function \gls{fx}.
   
   \printunsrtglossary % default: type=main
   \printunsrtglossary[type=abbreviations]
   \printunsrtglossary[type=symbols]
   \end{document}
   

5. \printunsrtglossary only:

   \documentclass{article}
   
   \usepackage[abbreviations,symbols]{glossaries-extra}
   
   % define entry in default 'main' glossary:
   \newglossaryentry{sample}{name={sample},description={an example}}
   
   % define entry in 'abbreviations' glossary:
   \newabbreviation{ex}{EX}{example}
   
   % define entry in 'symbols' glossary:
   \glsxtrnewsymbol
    [description={a function of $x$}]
    {fx}{\ensuremath{f(x)}}
   
   \begin{document}
   A \gls{sample} document with an \gls{ex} function \gls{fx}.
   
   \printunsrtglossary % default: type=main
   \printunsrtglossary[type=abbreviations]
   \printunsrtglossary[type=symbols]
   \end{document}
   

6. Hybrid bib2gls+makeglossaries (for example, if you have a custom xindy style that can't be replicated by bib2gls, but you want the convenience of storing entry definitions in .bib files):

   \RequirePackage{filecontents}
   \begin{filecontents*}{terms.bib}
   @entry{sample,
     name = {sample},
     description = {an example}
   }
   \end{filecontents*}
   
   \begin{filecontents*}{abbrvs.bib}
   @abbreviation{ex,
     short = {EX},
     long = {example}
   }
   \end{filecontents*}
   
   \begin{filecontents*}{syms.bib}
   @symbol{fx,
     name = {\ensuremath{f(x)}},
     description = {a function of $x$}
   }
   \end{filecontents*}
   
   \documentclass{article}
   
   \usepackage[record=alsoindex,xindy,abbreviations,symbols]{glossaries-extra}
   
   \makeglossaries
   
   \GlsXtrLoadResources[src={terms,abbrvs},sort=none,save-locations=false]
   
   \GlsXtrLoadResources[src={syms},type={symbols},sort=none,save-locations=false]
   
   \begin{document}
   A \gls{sample} document with an \gls{ex} function \gls{fx}.
   
   \printglossary % default: type=main
   \printglossary[type=abbreviations]
   \printglossary[type=symbols]
   \end{document}