[OS X TeX] Avoiding the deletion of .aux files upon encountering errors (TeXShop)

[Erik Norvelle]

Herbert,

Thanks for you advice on the xelatexmk... so far it seems to work  
quite well.  I appreciate your information and the work you've put  
into making TeXShop compatible with Latexmk

Erik Norvelle

On Jun 7, 2007, at 3:04 PM, Herbert Schulz wrote:

>
> On Jun 7, 2007, at 6:43 AM, Erik Norvelle wrote:
>
>> Greetings all,
>>
>> I've been running into a strange problem with TeXShop... if I have  
>> a document set up to "typeset" in one pass (in particular, I've  
>> run xdvipdfmx or XeLaTeX once to set up the citations, then I've  
>> run BibTeX to generate the footnotes and bibliography, and finally  
>> run xdvipdfmx or XeLaTeX a second time to generate the text with  
>> references and biblio included), but the typesetting runs into a  
>> problem, all of my aux files and the .bbl file get deleted.  All  
>> of a sudden I have to rerun, e.g. xdvipdfmx, BibTeX and xdvipdfmx  
>> over again, to get back where I was.
>>
>> Is there a way to avoid deletion of .aux and .bbl files upon  
>> encountering an error?  Fixing the error (e.g. a misspelled  
>> command) is easy enough, there shouldn't be any reason to have to  
>> go back to step one.
>>
>> Thanks in advance for any help you may be able to offer.
>> Erik Norvelle
>>
>> Universidad de Navarra
>> Ayudante, Dpto. de Filosofia
>>
>
> Howdy,
>
> Have you tried using the xelatexmk engine? It will automatically  
> run xelatex, bibtex and/or makeindex if necessary and then xelatex  
> the proper number of times to get the references correct.
>
> There has a been an update to the engines recently that will force  
> at least one compile. It may be what you need but I'm not sure. You  
> can pick up the latest version as LatexmkTeXShop.zip at <http:// 
> homepage.mac.com/herbs2/>. Hope that helps but it should at least  
> be a bit of a time saver.
>
> Good Luck,
>
> Herb Schulz
> (herbs at wideopenwest.com)
>
>
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