[OS X TeX] Using latexmk with TeXShop

[Herbert Schulz]

On Nov 10, 2011, at 5:40 AM, Herbert Schulz wrote:

> 
> On Nov 9, 2011, at 8:56 PM, Don Green Dragon wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> This is really addressed to Herb Schulz and concerns the download .zip file
>> 	Latexmk427aTeXShop.zip		(639 KB, created 12Oct2011 2:34 PM)
>> which when unzipped becomes the directory:
>> 	Latexmk427aTeXShop
>> 
>> That directory contains the PDF file <Latexmk For TeXShop.pdf> which I've been reading and, as the following will reveal, am a bit confused.
>> 
>> I currently have TeXShop, version 2.43, and did install the MacTeX-2011 package about five days ago. I'm still with Snow Leopard 10.6.8. As above, I will use < and > to delimit the names of long file and directory names.
>> 
>> In the PDf you state (page 1)
>> 
>> 	Move the tslatexmkrc folder found in the supplied ‘For /Library/TeXShop/bin/’ folder 
>> 	to the corresponding folder on your computer replacing the one already there.
>> 
>> But in <For /Library/TeXShop/bin/> the only folder is <tslatexmk> as shown by
>> 
>> doncarvel:~/downloads/Latexmk427aTeXShop$ ls -l "For ~:Library:TeXShop:bin:"
>> total 0
>> drwxr-xr-x@ 15 doncarvel  staff  510 12 Oct 16:32 tslatexmk
>> 
>> I don't understand why the bash shell required that I use ':' instead of '/' but when I used '/' it claimed the directory <For /Library/TeXShop/bin/> did not exist!?!?!?
>> 
>> However, if one looks in 
>> 
>> 	<~/downloads/Latexmk427aTeXShop/For /Library/TeXShop/bin/tslatexmk/> 
>> 
>> then there is a FILE <tslatexmkrc> of size 4 KB created on 26Feb2010 2:22 PM and a Unix executable file 
>> <latexmk> of 287 KB created on 10Oct2011 5:47 PM.
>> 
> 
> Howdy,
> 
> Simply move the <tslatexmk> FOLDER in <For ~/Library/TeXShop/bin> (in what you downloaded from my download site) in to <~/Library/TeXShop/bin>; replacing the one that is already there. 
> 
> Then move the 9 files with extension .engine that are in the <For ~/Library/TeXShop/Engines/> folder into the ~/Library/TeXShop/Engines/ folder.
> 
> (Note: ~/Library/ is the Library folder in your HOME folder.)
> 
>> My current content in <~/Library/TeXShop/bin/> is displayed in
>> 
>> doncarvel:~$ ls -l ~/Library/TeXShop/bin/
>> total 264
>> -rwxr-xr-x   1 doncarvel  staff     84  3 Jul 10:18 altpdflatexc
>> -rwxr-xr-x   1 doncarvel  staff    130  3 Jul 10:18 bibtexc
>> -rwxr-xr-x   1 doncarvel  staff   3311  3 Jul 10:18 csv2latex
>> -rwxr-xr-x   1 doncarvel  staff  53404  3 Jul 10:18 flip
>> -rwxr-xr-x   1 doncarvel  staff    320  3 Jul 10:18 htlatexc
>> -rwxr-xr-x   1 doncarvel  staff    331  3 Jul 10:18 htlatexr
>> -rwxr-xr-x   1 doncarvel  staff    335  3 Jul 10:18 htlatexra
>> -rwxr-xr-x   1 doncarvel  staff    270  3 Jul 10:18 makeindexc
>> -rwxr-xr-x   1 doncarvel  staff    329  3 Jul 10:18 makeindexcg
>> -rwxr-xr-x   1 doncarvel  staff    257  3 Jul 10:18 makeindexk
>> -rwxr-xr-x   1 doncarvel  staff   1078  3 Jul 10:18 makeindices
>> -rwxr-xr-x   1 doncarvel  staff    255  3 Jul 10:18 mpostc
>> -rwxr-xr-x   1 doncarvel  staff    152  3 Jul 10:18 pdflatexc
>> -rwxr-xr-x   1 doncarvel  staff    685  3 Jul 10:18 pdfselectc
>> -rwxr-xr-x   1 doncarvel  staff    291  3 Jul 10:18 platex2pdf-euc
>> -rwxr-xr-x   1 doncarvel  staff    291  3 Jul 10:18 platex2pdf-jis
>> -rwxr-xr-x   1 doncarvel  staff    291  3 Jul 10:18 platex2pdf-sjis
>> -rwxr-xr-x   1 doncarvel  staff    291  3 Jul 10:18 ptex2pdf-euc
>> -rwxr-xr-x   1 doncarvel  staff    291  3 Jul 10:18 ptex2pdf-jis
>> -rwxr-xr-x   1 doncarvel  staff    291  3 Jul 10:18 ptex2pdf-sjis
>> drwxr-xr-x  15 doncarvel  staff    510  6 Oct 10:35 tslatexmk
>> 
> 
> See the tslatexmk FOLDER (see the leading `d' in the permissions on the left)?
> 
> NOTE: you can do all of this from the Finder, no need to use Terminal for this process.
> 
> Good Luck,
> 
> Herb Schulz
> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)


Howdy,

PS: I just noticed that the instructions for installing latexmk 4.27a had a typo! I mentioned the `tslatexmkrc' folder and it should have been the `tslatexmk' folder. Thanks for bringing it to my attention.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)