MAKEGLOSSARIES-LITE(1)

makeglossaries-lite(1) — the makeglossaries-lite Lua Script manual 💖

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✨ NAME ✨

makeglossaries-lite — calls makeindex/xindy for LaTeX documents using the glossaries package. periodt 💅

🌸 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 ✨

okay so makeglossaries-lite is a cut-down Lua alternative to the makeglossaries Perl script, and it’s designed for LaTeX documents that use the glossaries package 🫶. Quick heads-up, bestie: some options that are available to makeglossaries aren’t available with makeglossaries-lite — that’s just the lore.

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, 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 🎀

here’s the full menu, bestie — every flag matters 🔥

• -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). 🔧

💅 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. 🫶

yes bestie, NO WARRANTY is in all caps for a reason — read it fr fr 💀

👑 AUTHOR 👑

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

📚 RECOMMENDED READING 📚

The glossaries manual:

texdoc glossaries

k bye bestie 💖 this page is from perl v5.40.3, dated 2025-11-09, and it’s giving “manual page but make it group chat” energy. slay ✨