[OS X TeX] Package incompatability?
Herbert Schulz
herbs at wideopenwest.com
Mon Jan 19 18:57:40 EST 2009
On Jan 19, 2009, at 3:33 PM, Jim Reeds wrote:
> I am writing a book and (perhaps fooishly) agreed to supply camera
> ready copy. In the course of this I found that some packages I want
> to use
> do not seem to be consistent with each other.
>
> The following illustrates my problems.
> On an OS 10.5.6 Intel, running the version 2008 Texlive from
> the shell, as in
>
> pdflatex foo
> makeindex foo
> pdflatex foo
>
> the second pdflatex run bombs.
>
>
>
>
> ---- file foo.tex ---
> \documentclass{report}
>
> %%%
> %
> % crop/mparhack/makeidx don't play nicely together!
> %
> % but any pair of them does.
> %
> %%%
>
>
> \usepackage[dvips=false,pdftex=false,vtex=false,verbose]{geometry}
> \geometry{twoside,top=1in,width=32pc,lines=50,papersize={7in,
> 10in},bindingoffset=.25in,hmarginratio=1:1}
>
> \usepackage[cross,font=textsf,center,letter]{crop}
> \usepackage{mparhack}
> \usepackage{makeidx}
>
> \makeindex
> \begin{document}
> fee\index{fee}
> figh\index{fi}
> foe\index{fo}
>
> \printindex
> \end{document}
> --- EOF ---
>
> I love my crop marks, and I need my index. The marginal notes (I have
> zillions of them) occasionally end in the wrong margin if I don't use
> mparhack. I know I can make the index in a separate run, with
> crop marks but not marginal notes. But why doesn't theabove stuff
> work?
>
> Thanks!
>
Howdy,
Let's see... In MacTeX 2008 the crop package is v1.9 dated 2003/05/20,
the mparhack package is v1.4 dated 2005/04/17 and the makeidx package
is v1.0m dated 2000/03/29. They haven't changed in quite a while so if
they worked after 2005 they should still work today.
Peter Dyballa has a good point about the geometry package but I can
leave that package out completely as well as use the article class and
get the same error. It also doesn't work if I use the index package
instead of the makeidx package or change the order of the package
loading. The ndx file looks fine too.
Good Luck,
Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)
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