TexMaker with Glossary on Mac

July 23, 2012
On a mac OSX, I have some problems adding a glossary to my report. The makeglossaries command cannot be added to user commands which is stated by alot of online references. However the command itself works fine when run in terminal. With help from Shawn, my colleague, we managed to get it working.

The following is a sample tex file with glossary

documentclass{article}
usepackage[colorlinks]{hyperref}
usepackage{glossaries} % make a separate list of acronyms
makeglossaries
newglossaryentry{sample}{name={sample},
description={a sample entry}}
newacronym[glsshortpluralkey=cas,glslongpluralkey=contrived
acronyms]{aca}{aca}{a contrived acronym}
begin{document}
A gls{sample} entry and gls{aca}. Second use: gls{aca}.
Plurals: glspl{sample}. Reset acronymglsreset{aca}.
First use: glspl{aca}. Second use: glspl{aca}.
printglossaries
end{document}

Firstly, in your texmaker installation, go to user > user commands > edit user commands, choose 1 and add the line below. after which you should compile your tex file with latex and then make glossary. This should work as opposed to makeglossaries % which many tutorials say. Reason is on the mac, path is not detected by TexMaker.

“/usr/texbin/makeglossaries” %

My custom command which builds and rebuilds the bibtex and includes glossaries is this,

“/usr/texbin/latex” -interaction=nonstopmode %.tex|”/usr/texbin/bibtex” %.aux|”/usr/texbin/makeglossaries” %|”/usr/texbin/latex” -interaction=nonstopmode %.tex|”/usr/texbin/pdflatex” -interaction=nonstopmode %.tex|open %.pdf

or

“/usr/texbin/pdflatex” -interaction=nonstopmode %.tex|”/usr/texbin/pdflatex” -interaction=nonstopmode %.tex|”/usr/texbin/bibtex” %.aux|”/usr/texbin/makeglossaries” %|”/usr/texbin/pdflatex” -interaction=nonstopmode %.tex|”/usr/texbin/pdflatex” -interaction=nonstopmode %.tex|open %.pdf 

To do text count…

“/usr/texbin/texcount” %