MAKEGLOSSARIES-LITE(1)

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👑 MAKEGLOSSARIES-LITE(1) 👑

okay so bestie, welcome to makeglossaries-lite, a Lua script living its best life in the makeglossaries-lite Lua Script section of your man pages 💖

✨ NAME ✨

makeglossaries-lite — Calls makeindex/xindy for LaTeX documents using glossaries package

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

makeglossaries [-o file] [-q] [-n] [-s file] [-t file] [-L language]
[-c] [-g] [-l] [-p num] [-r] [-m file] [-x file] [--version] [--help]
filename

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So makeglossaries-lite is the cut-down Lua alternative to the makeglossaries Perl script. It's giving "little sibling energy" but in the best way 💅 It's designed for use with LaTeX documents that use the glossaries package. Heads up though: some options that are available to makeglossaries aren't available with makeglossaries-lite. Not everything made the cut, and that's just how it is 🙈

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. (Yes this matters, no you cannot skip it, the dots have consequences 😭)

Alternatively, filename may be the name of a specific glossary file if only one glossary should be processed — for example, when you're working on a draft document. In this case, the aux file is still expected to exist and is inferred from the basename of filename. So like, the aux file still has to be there, it's just being found by its vibes (its basename) 🧚

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 it may be overridden by the option arguments to makeglossaries-lite. So the aux file is the main character, but the options can absolutely step in and take over 👑

💅 OPTIONS 💅

  • -q — Quiet mode. Reduces chatter to standard output. It's giving "not me talking rn" 🤫
  • -n — Print the commands that would normally be executed but don't run them. Delulu mode: it's pretending, but it's not doing 😌
  • -o file — Use file as the output file. (Only suitable for documents containing a single glossary, otherwise each glossary will be overridden.) One glossary only, bestie, don't push it 💀
  • -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. Fr fr, know your caller before you hand over the style file 🎀
  • -t file — Use file as the transcript file.
  • -l — Letter ordering. Alphabetical girlies rise 🌈
  • -L language — This option only has an effect if xindy is called. Sets the language. See xindy documentation for further details. (makeindex girlies, this one's not for you, no cap.)
  • -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. Lost? Give it the full 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. Same deal, full path, no shortcuts.
  • --version — Prints version number and exits. Slay, then dip ✨
  • --help — Prints help message and exits. Iconic behaviour honestly.

🔥 REQUIRES 🔥

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

Not optional, bestie. You need texlua, and then either makeindex or xindy — which one depends on your glossaries package options. No shortcuts, no vibes-only installs 💀

💖 LICENSE 💖

This is free software distributed under the LaTeX Project Public License. There is NO WARRANTY. See <http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt> for details.

NO WARRANTY means NO WARRANTY, fr fr 😭 read the license, it's short.

🌟 AUTHOR 🌟

Nicola L. C. Talbot, <http://www.dickimaw-books.com/>

The glossaries manual:

texdoc glossaries

and that's the whole page bestie 💖✨🎀🦋🌸💅🫶

Cute little sign-off: this one's from perl v5.40.2, dated 2025-05-14, and it belongs to MAKEGLOSSARIES-LITE(1). Now go compile something iconic 👑

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