Glossaries change number of pages but indices are not rebuilt

[shiblon]

Originally reported on Google Code with ID 158

Included is a document whose page references in the index and in the glossary are off
by two (exactly the number of pages added by the glossary after it appeared in the
document).

PROBLEM:

  Page references are not recalculated once the glossary appears.

WHAT TO DO?

  Rerun glossary and index regeneration after the glossaries appear.

  \makeindex
  \makeglossaries

Reported by matej.urbas on 2012-05-01 17:24:19

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[shiblon]

I have tried it with the following versions (both didn't work):

    2.2.0 (release)
    2.2.1-alpha8

Also, here is the workaround I currently employ:

    make && makeglossaries thesis && makeindex thesis && pdflatex thesis.tex

Reported by matej.urbas on 2012-05-01 22:03:10

[shiblon]

There is a way to do this, but I'd have to look at details.

Typically these kinds of things are triggered by log file parse rules in the makefile,
but in this case it looks like we'll have to fiddle with dependencies, too.

We have to do this sort of thing all the time, it turns out, because latex likes to
recalculate things.  What we need is basically this (and I'm afraid I won't be able
to do much digging here for a while yet)

- some indicator in the files that signals to us that it's time to run makeindex and
makeglossaries.
- a rule that does the actual building (with log parsing so we can display errors -
there are lots of these in the makefile)
- the right dependency order to ensure that things are run.

This last part might be easy or difficult, depending on when *exactly* the makeindex
and makeglossaries commands need to be run.  It looks from the above like you can run
them almost at the end, kind of like bibtex.  If that's the case, this shouldn't be
too hard, since we already do that in the case of annotated bibtex (see the rules starting
on line 2921 in 2.2.1-alpha8).

Overall, this looks doable.  It is always the details that get you.  :-)

Reported by shiblon on 2012-05-07 12:58:14

[shiblon]

The fix I have given for issue #158 is a first step in fixing this.

The pages can still be slightly off and a little bit more work has to be done to have
a perfect solution. The problem is that "nobody" will tell us that it is time to recompute
the glossaries. So similarly to the rule creating auxbbl.make we will have to figure
out if there is some change. AFAICT the only way is to rerun makeglossaries and comparing
the `.acr` files.

While trying to do that I ran into problems if the document did not have a glossaries.

Reported by nicolas.dudebout on 2013-12-13 05:35:22