MAKEGLOSSARIES(1)

💖 MAKEGLOSSARIES(1) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the manual page for makeglossaries — manual name: makeglossaries Perl Script. It's the Perl script that calls makeindex/xindy for LaTeX docs using the glossaries package, and we're gonna keep every flag, file, and warning intact. No cap. ✨

✨ NAME ✨

makeglossaries — calls makeindex/xindy for LaTeX documents using the glossaries package. slay. 💅

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

makeglossaries [-o file] [-q] [-Q] [-k] [-n] [-s file] [-t file] [-L language] [-c] [-g] [-l] [-p num] [-r] [-d aux dir] [-m file] [-x file] [-e] [--version] [--help] filename

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

makeglossaries is literally designed for use with LaTeX documents that use the glossaries package.

The mandatory argument filename should be the name of the aux file. The .aux extension may be omitted, but bestie, it is best included where the filename includes additional dots in its name to avoid ambiguity.

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 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.

🌟 OPTIONS 🌟

• -e — Don't attempt to repair multiple encaps or illegal page number (makeindex only). leave it, bestie. 🙈
• -c — Compress intermediate blanks (makeindex only).
• -d aux dir — Specify the directory the .aux, .glo etc files are located. Defaults to the parent directory of the base file filename.
• -g — Employ German word ordering (makeindex only).
• -k — Don't try forking with piped redirection. (This lowkey lessens the effect of -q.)
• -l — Letter ordering.
• -L language — This option only has an effect if xindy is called. Sets the language. See xindy documentation for further details.
• -m file — Specify the full path name for makeindex to file in the event that makeindex isn't on the operating system's path.
• -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.)
• -p num — Sets the starting page number to be num (makeindex only).
• -q — Quiet mode. Reduces chatter to standard output.
• -Q — Silences warning about being unable to fork.
• -r — Disable implicit page range formation (makeindex only). (Tiny formatting PSA: in the original page this line appears hanging out after -t file; I'm keeping the exact text visible instead of pretending it's not there. 🫠)
• -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.
• -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 🌸

You need Perl, Getopt::Std, and makeindex or xindy (depending on glossaries package options). that's the whole requirement list, bestie. 🫶

💀 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.

👑 AUTHOR 👑

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

🌈 RECOMMENDED READING 🌈

The glossaries manual:

texdoc glossaries

mwah 💋 — this page is perl v5.40.3, dated 2025-11-09, and yes, it's MAKEGLOSSARIES(1). periodt. ⭐