[OS X TeX] TexShop hanging

["M. Tamer Özsu"]

Sorry Herb, no go... I had one more problem while running the LaTeX engine and it hung again. I am going back to putting that line at the top.

==Tamer
--
M. Tamer Özsu
Professor, Cheriton School of Computer Science
University of Waterloo
https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~tozsu <https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~tozsu>
+1-519-888-4043

> On Jul 29, 2017, at 8:41 PM, Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com <mailto:herbs at wideopenwest.com>> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On Jul 29, 2017, at 6:17 PM, M. Tamer Özsu <ozsut at mac.com <mailto:ozsut at mac.com>> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Herb,
>> 
>> I tried that after I introduced an error. It did stop when the error occurred, as expected, but did not hang as before. So, there is obviously a difference between choosing Pdflatex from the Typeset drop-down menu and putting this at the top of the file.
>> 
>> Best.
>> 
>> ==Tamer
>> --
>> M. Tamer Özsu
>> Professor, Cheriton School of Computer Science
>> University of Waterloo
>> https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~tozsu <https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~tozsu>
>> +1-519-888-4043
>> 
>>> On Jul 29, 2017, at 11:55 AM, Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Jul 28, 2017, at 10:48 PM, M. Tamer Özsu <ozsut at mac.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> I think I was using pdflatex Herb.
>>>> 
>>>> ==Tamer
>>>> --
>>>> M. Tamer Özsu
>>>> Professor, Cheriton School of Computer Science
>>>> University of Waterloo
>>>> https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~tozsu
>>>> +1-519-888-4043
>>>> 
>>>>> On Jul 28, 2017, at 11:47 PM, Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Jul 28, 2017, at 8:50 PM, M. Tamer Özsu <ozsut at mac.com> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> In 3.83 an old problem has re-appeared. When it gives me an error during compilation (pdflatex), TeXShop hangs and I have to force quit and then delete all the auxiliary files before it will work again. I thought this was resolved and I don't recall having it in the previous two versions.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> ==Tamer
>>>>> 
>>>>> Howdy,
>>>>> 
>>>>> How are you compiling your file? Are you using one of the external engines. e.g. pdflatexmk, or one of the internally defined programs, e.g. pdflatex---available directly from the Typeset Menu?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Good Luck,
>>>>> 
>>>>> Herb Schulz
>>>>> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)
>>> 
>>> Howdy,
>>> 
>>> Please try to put the line
>>> 
>>> % !TEX TS-program = pdflatexmk
>>> 
>>> at the top of your file and then compile it using Typeset->Typeset (Cmd-T). That will use the pdflatexmk engine to compile your document. Does the problem go away when you use that engine?
>>> 
>>> Good Luck,
>>> 
>>> Herb Schulz
>>> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)
> 
> Howdy,
> 
> That's actually good news! It's a problem that managed to get solved before.
> 
> Ok... here goes...
> 
> Open the Engine tab of TeXShop->Preferences. There are two Default buttons in the pdfTeX section and another two Default buttons in the TeX+dvips+distiller section. Press all four buttons. Then you can remove that extra line I told you about and typeset again using pdflatex. You should not have a problem now.
> 
> PS: I know that the pdflatexmk engine (which is what that line uses to compile) has all the correct options set; in particular the --file-line-error option for pdflatex. Pressing those Default buttons makes sure those internal scripts have that option set too.
> 
> Good Luck,
> 
> Herb Schulz
> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)
> 
> 
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