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ID | 21🔗 |
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Date: | 2013-01-31 02:24:08 |
Status | Open Sign in if you want to bump this report. |
Category | makeglossaries (Perl) |
Version | 2.05 |
Summary | makeglossaries error on Windows due to long username or accented character in it |
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Description
When run on Windows (at least on Windows Seven) by a user with a long username or accented character(s) in it, makeglossaries gives error.It used to happen for instance with a user named "Cécile" who was running:
makeglossaries "essaiglossaire"in directory:
C:\Users\Cécile\Documents\THESEShe gets:
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% makeglossaries version 2.03 (2011-12-02) added glossary type 'main' (glg,gls,glo) xindy -L french -C utf8 -I xindy -M "essaiglossaire" -t "essaiglossaire.glg" -o "essaiglossaire.gls" "essaiglossaire.glo" *** - LOAD: A file with name C:\Users\CCILE~1\AppData\Local\Temp \NTlhTzJ0ob does not exist C:\texlive\2011\bin\win32\runscript.tlu:587: command failed with exit code 1: %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%So the problem came from the Windows conversion:
C:\Users\Cécile -> C:\Users\CCILE~1A similar case arose with a user named "Alejandro" (more than 8 characters).
The solution is to create a new user with shorter username and just ASCII characters in it. Then makeglossaries works nicely.
If this trouble, maybe inherent to Windows systems, cannot be
dropped, maybe the above workaround should be mentioned in:
http://www.dickimaw-books.com/faqs/glossariesfaq.html#errmess
MWE
No mwe.tex
Evaluation
Thank you for the workaround. I've added an entry in the glossaries FAQ that links back to this. If a Windows user can suggest a solution, that would be great.
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Date: 2013-02-07 16:39:26
Thanks for having added an entry in the glossaries FAQ. IMHO, it should nevertheless be necessary to add in the FAQ entry the characteristic error messages:
Otherwise, users who are facing the trouble could ignore the bug report and the workaround because they couldn't imagine it is related to long username or accented character in it.