makeglossaries-lite1

Usage

Overview

makeglossaries-lite is cut-down Lua alternative to the makeglossaries Perl script. It's designed for use with LaTeX documents that use the glossaries package. Some options that are available to makeglossaries aren't available with makeglossaries-lite.

The mandatory argument filename should be the name of the aux file. The .aux extension may be omitted except where the filename includes additional dots in its name.

Alternatively, the filename may be the name of a specific glossary file if only one glossary should be processed (for example, when working on a draft document). In this case, the aux file is still expected to exist and is inferred from the basename of filename.

makeglossaries-lite will read the auxiliary file to determine whether makeindex or xindy should be called. All the information required to be passed to the relevant indexing application should also be contained in the auxiliary file, but may be overridden by the option arguments to makeglossaries-lite.

Options

-q

Quiet mode. Reduces chatter to standard output.

-n

Print the commands that would normally be executed but don't run them.

-o file

Use file as the output file. (Only suitable for documents containing a single glossary, otherwise each glossary will be overridden.)

-s file

Use file as the style file. Note that if you use this option, you need to know whether makeindex or xindy will be called, as they have different style files.

-t file

Use file as the transcript file.

-l

Letter ordering.

-L language

This option only has an effect if xindy is called. Sets the language. See xindy documentation for further details.

-c

Compress intermediate blanks (makeindex only).

-g

Employ German word ordering (makeindex only).

-p num

Sets the starting page number to be num (makeindex only).

-r

Disable implicit page range formation (makeindex only).

-m file

Specify the full path name for makeindex to file in the event that makeindex isn't on the operating system's path.

-x file

Specify the full path name for xindy to file in the event that xindy isn't on the operating system's path.

--version

Prints version number and exits.

--help

Prints help message and exits.

Requires

texlua and makeindex or xindy (depending on glossaries package options).

Recommended reading

The glossaries manual:

        texdoc glossaries