[OS X TeX] Package incompatability?

[Herbert Schulz]

On Jan 19, 2009, at 6:07 PM, Tim Brophy wrote:

> It works perfectly using Texshop on my iMac
>
> Tim Brophy
>
>
> On 19 Jan 2009, at 23:57, Herbert Schulz wrote:
>
>>
>> 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)
>>
>>


Howdy,

What TeX distribution are you using? It ahs nothing to do with TeXShop  
or your iMac.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)