acronymns not showing up in latex document

Question

all. I am trying to get a list of acronyms to show up in my document. I have a main "thesis.tex" file where I would like to put the acronyms after the list of figures and tables.

In the preamble of the document, I have the following:

\usepackage[]{uahdis,chngpage,units,bm,hhline,rotating,verbatim,amsfonts,amssymb,xspace,url,natbib}
\usepackage[]{indentfirst,layouts, booktabs, enumerate, gensymb}
\usepackage[acronym]{glossaries}
\makeglossaries

After begin document, I have this:

\begin{document}

%   Here comes the stuff that goes before the main content
\frontmatter

\pagestyle{plain}

\maketitle

\copyrightpage

%MWT - UAH Approval Form
\approvalpage


%   Include my abstract
\include{./FRONT/abstract}

%   Include my acknowledgements
\include{./FRONT/acknowledgments}

%   Make a Table of Contents
\tableofcontents

%   Make a List of Figures
\listoffigures

%   Make a List of Tables
\listoftables

%   print the acronyms
\include{./FRONT/acronyms}
\clearpage
\printglossary[type=\acronymtype]

%   Make a List of Symbols (Comment out if unwanted)
\include{./FRONT/symbols}

In a separate folder with filepath ./FRONT/acronyms.tex', I have the following code:

\newacronym{ALEXI}{ALEXI}{Atmosphere Land Exchange Inverse}
\newacronym{ESI}{ESI}{Evaporative Stress Index}

However, I get a List of tables and a list of symbols and a blank page with no acronyms

For example:

Here is the tables on page xi:

Here is the missing acronyms on page xii:

Here is the list of symbols that works:

I would like the list of acronyms to be added just after the List of Tables. Everything else in the document works fine. I am unsure of what I need to do to get these acronyms to show up.

One thing I have noticed, and not sure if it is important is that my acronyms.tex file is mising a .bak. I am wondering if this has anything to do with it? For example:

I am using Overleaf to write my thesis. Is there something that I need to do specific to Overleaf to get it to work? I have tried clearing the log cache with no success.

Answer 1

I got this to work by doing a few things. First I used the drop-down menu on the overleaf compile button and turned on "auto compile."

Then, I changed the following code under the comment listed below:

% print the acronyms
\glsaddall %adds all the entries to the glossary
\printglossary
\printglossary[type=\acronymtype, nonumberlist]

For some reason, it worked.I think that one reason is that I did not need to include the acronyms page specifically.