[OS X TeX] Author Index

[Herbert Schulz]

> On Jun 20, 2016, at 11:16 AM, George Gratzer <gratzer at me.com> wrote:
> 
> Dick,
> 
> I’m not familiar with author index, it’s used by my co-editor, more tech savvy than I’m.
> 
> George
> 
>> On Jun 19, 2016, at 2:24 PM, Richard Koch <koch at uoregon.edu> wrote:
>> 
>> George,
>> 
>> Author index is NOT run by TeXShop. All actual output comes from TeX.
>> 
>> Dick
>> 
>> 
>>> On Jun 19, 2016, at 10:59 AM, George Gratzer <gratzer at me.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> In TeXShop, does author index needs the Perl Script, or it is run by TeXShop?
>>> 
>>> If the book is passed on to Production, do they need a Mac?
>>> 
>>> GG

Howdy,

I think David Derbes' suggestion of using the imakeidx package is the way to go. There is no need for special post-process outside of the normal makeindex. If you use one of the latexmk engines in TeXShop (e.g., pdflatexmk) it will take care of everything.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)