[OS X TeX] TeXShop and latexmk and makeindex -s gind, oh my

Herbert Schulz herbs at wideopenwest.com
Wed Oct 20 09:26:21 EDT 2010


On Oct 20, 2010, at 8:04 AM, Herbert Schulz wrote:

> 
> On Oct 19, 2010, at 10:14 PM, Martin Wilhelm Leidig wrote:
> 
>> Good morning!
>> 
>> Am 2010-10-20 um 03:42 schrieb Herbert Schulz:
>>> On Oct 19, 2010, at 8:40 PM, Herbert Schulz wrote:
>>>> Oh... do you typeset with pdflatex or latex?
>> 
>> It’s always pdflatex, when doing DTX. 
>> 
>>> I'm hitting send too fast... I'm not at all sure latexmk will understand the dtx extension. I'll have to check on that.
>> 
>> It does, I'm using it for my DTX work for months now.  The one thing I'm missing is using makeindex with additional arguments, custom .ist files &c.
>> 
>> 
>> … mit freundlichem Gruß aus Ladenburg:
>> 
>> -Moss-
> 
> Howdy,
> 
> Attached is a compressed folder that contains two items. Place the `dtxmkrc' file into the ~/Library/TeXShop/bin/tslatexmk/ folder and the `dtxmk.engine' file into ~/Library/TeXShop/Engines/ folder. Restart TeXShop and the dtxmk engine should show on the engine popup on the source window toolbar.
> 
> Please let me know if this works properly since I only tested it on a very simple dtx file.
> 
> <dtxmk.zip>
> 
> Good Luck,
> 
> Herb Schulz
> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)

Howdy,

Tried it with a more complex dtx and found I messed up the engine file. Here is a (more) proper engine file. Un-zip it and replace the dtxmk.engine file in ~/Library/TeXShop/Engines/ by the one here:

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Again, let me know your results.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)





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