[OS X TeX] Using \usepgfplotslibrary{external}

[Martin Bergren]

> On 04 Aug 2016, at 14:52, Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Aug 4, 2016, at 7:22 AM, Martin Bergren <martin.berggren at cs.umu.se> wrote:
>> 
>> I would like to be able to use
>> 
>> \usepgfplotslibrary{external}
>> 
>> for pgfplots, which apparently should be able to store the pgfplots or tikz figures as pdfs to shorten latexing time. The problem seem to be write18. 
>> Is there a way around it?
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> 
>> 
>> Martin Berggren
> 
> Howdy,
> 
> Assuming you are using TeXShop:
> 
> One thing you can use is the sepdflatexmk engine. This is set up to use latexmk so that all processing through bibtex/biber and makeindex is taken care of if necessary and the pdflatex has the --shell-escape flag set. To use it simply place the line
> 
> % !TEX TS-program = sepdflatexmk
> 
> at the top of your file and then typeset the document by simply using Typeset->Typeset (Cmd-T).
> 
> 

But this is not a bibtex/biber and makeindex issue. This is about pgfplots,  which I think is running (in my case) lualatex in the background to produce the plots.

Cheers,

Martin Berggren
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