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I was searching for this problem on this webpage and I found several related questions, however, with no accepted answer. I hope this entry will help others to solve the problem quickly in the future.

I am using MiKTeX 2.9 with package nomencl, on Windows 7. I was trying to make a abbreviation list but I was facing this error when trying to invoke make index:

Couldn't find input index file MYFILE nor MYFILE.idx

This part of my previous LaTeX code is relevant:

\documentclass[11pt, a4paper]{article}

%list of abbreviations


\tableofcontents % Include a table of contents

\newpage % Begins the essay on a new page instead of on the same page as the table of contents

\section{Introduction} % Major section

Every Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS)\nomenclature{GNSS}{Global Navigation Satellite System}, as GPS\nomenclature{GPS}{Global Positioning System}, GLONASS and

PdfLaTeX does no error and "the nomenclature file <filename>.nlo corre-sponding to your LATEX file <filename>.tex and to write the information from your \nomenclature commands to this file" as it is written in A Package to Create a Nomenclature - page 2.

The next step, to run MakeIndex produces error:

Couldn't find input index file MYFILE nor MYFILE.idx

end no abbreviation list is created. The next step according to the manual is to run

"makeindex <filename>.nlo -s nomencl.ist -o <filename>.nls"

But How?

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If your file is master.tex, then the command line must be makeindex master.nlo -s nomencl.ist -o master.nls –  egreg Oct 23 '12 at 12:25
I agree, nevertheless, I can accept my own answer in 2 days –  MasterPJ Oct 23 '12 at 19:44
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marked as duplicate by Kurt, lockstep, Harish Kumar, Werner, Heiko Oberdiek Oct 23 '12 at 15:17


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I had to do 2 things to accomplish it:

  1. to write \makeindex in the document preamble:

    %list of abbreviations
    \makeindex % <=== !!!!!

    And run the pdFLaTeX again

  2. to use windows command prompt to execute the makeindex <filename>.nlo -s nomencl.ist -o <filename>.nls command:

    Run the CMD and get to the folder of the your article files. Write the command above with your file names. By doing that you will obtain desirable .nls file. My output is: My output is:

Run the pdfLaTeX again to create the list in the document.

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