Btukfyl

I am new to LaTeX. I am using Texmaker 5.0.3 on MacOS High Sierra.

I have tried several things, they all worked (I even successfully created a list of references). But now I have troubles when I to try to add a glossary to my document.

This is main.tex:

documentclass{article}

usepackage{glossaries}

makeglossaries

loadglsentries{glossentries.tex}

begin{document}

This is some text talking about gls{laser} and gls{led}. Did you know, that glspl{led} can be used to emmit gls{laser}-light?



Another topic is how to use a gls{computer}.



printglossaries %is not printing any output

end{document}

And here is glossentries.tex:

newglossaryentry{computer}{name=computer,description={a programmable machine}}

newacronym{laser}{LASER}{Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation}

newacronym[plural=LEDs, longplural={light-emitting diodes}]{led}{LED}{light-emitting diode}

I think I have done everything right, but when I compile it (click on »Quick Build« in Texmaker) I only get this:

This is some text talking about Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation (LASER) and light-emitting diode (LED). Did you know, that LEDs can be used to emmit LASER-light?

Another topic is how to use a computer.

But I expect also to get a list of the used terms with their explanation.

I found a LaTeX-wiki about glossaries. Quote from this wiki:

Building your document and its glossary requires three steps:

• build your LaTeX document — this will also generate the files needed by makeglossaries


• invoke makeglossaries — a script which selects the correct character encodings and language settings and which will also run xindy or makeindex if these are specified in your document file


• build your LaTeX document again — to produce a document with glossary entries

Thus:

latex doc

makeglossaries doc

latex doc

But how do I call makeglossaries from Texmaker? The button labeled »Quick Build« can be turned into »BitTeX«, »MakeIndex« and some other commands, but »makeglossaries« is not among the options. I think it should be there, but it isn't. And I can't find any other command in Texmaker to run makeglossaries.

I also tried the same on Windows 10. I have the same problem there.