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ID	311🔗
Date:	2025-10-10 12:11:35
Last update:	2025-10-10 12:50:31
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Category	glossaries
Version	4.57
Summary	False positive "no \printglossaries" warning

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Description

Using the trick described in [TeX.SX Link] causes glossaries wrongfully think there is no \printglossaries.

MWE:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{glossaries}
\makeglossaries
\newglossaryentry{sample}{name={sample},description=
{an example}}

\AtEndDocument{\printglossaries}

\begin{document}
\gls{sample}, \gls[format=textbf]{sample}.
\end{document}

Warning message:

demo.tex: warning: : No \printglossary or \printglossaries found. (Remove \makeglossaries if you don't want any glossaries.) This document will not have a glossary.

MWE

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{glossaries}
\makeglossaries
\newglossaryentry{sample}{name={sample},description=
{an example}}

\AtEndDocument{\printglossaries}

\begin{document}
\gls{sample}, \gls[format=textbf]{sample}.
\end{document}

Evaluation

Adding \ShowHook{enddocument} before \begin{document} produces the following in the transcript:

-> The hook 'enddocument':
> Code chunks:
>     glossaries -> \@gls@doautomake \ifdef \@gls@deffile {\closeout \@gls@deff
ile }{}\warn@nomakeglossaries \warn@noprintglossary \glswritefiles 
>     glossary-hypernav -> \gls@hypergrouprerun 
> Document-level (top-level) code (executed last):
>     -> \printglossaries 
> Extra code for next invocation:
>     ---
> Rules:
>     ---
> Execution order:
>     glossaries, glossary-hypernav.

Because \printglossaries is identified as a document-level command, it's executed last, which means that it's always executed after the code that checks if it has been used. This happens regardless of when you add \printglossaries to the hook (for example, even if you add it before the glossaries package is loaded).

I think that in this case you will have to just suppress the warning with the nowarn package option.

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