[OS X TeX] how imitate TeXShop's pdflatexmk from command line

[Herbert Schulz]

> On Aug 22, 2019, at 12:21 PM, Murray Eisenberg <murrayeisenberg at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> First, a correction: with the manual process, after the 3rd run of pdflatex and before the run of makeindex, I do also have the expected file main.nlo.
> 
> Realizing this, I’ve repeated the command-line process, but this time using 3 invocations of makeindex:
> 
> makeindex main -s main.ist -o main.nls              
> makeindex names.idx -s main.ist -o names.ind
> makeindex -s main.ist main
> 
> Now after the final pdflatex run, I do get both the index of names and the main index — but still NO index of notation (nomenclature).
> 
> What am I doing wrong, or what else do I need to do?
> 
>> On 22 Aug2019, at 12:52 PM, Murray Eisenberg <murrayeisenberg at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> The dead-stop freezes of TeXShop (now version 4.31) under macOS Mojave have become utterly frustrating, making the app nearly impossible to use except as an editor: typically on my book-lenght project I cannot get more than 2 or 3 successive runs of latex without a freeze; and nearly every time a run of pdflatexmk freezes somwhere before, or in, the final pass.
>> 
>> So I have to resort to running on the command line. The typical sequence would be:
>> 
>> pdflatex main
>> bibtex main
>> pdflatex main
>> pdflatex main
>> makeindex -s main.ist main
>> pdflatex main
>> 
>> My book has two indexes — an index of names and the main index — along with an index of notation (nomenclature). but I’m not getting any of them in the pdf.
>> 
>> Specifically, I’m using documentclass memoir, (in case that matters) along with packages:
>> 
>> repeatindex
>> nomencl         (for which I have a nomencl.cfg)
>> 
>> The glossary is supposed to be printed by command
>> 
>> \printglossary[notation]
>> 
>> and then the two indexes are supposed to be printed by commands:
>> 
>> \printindex[names]
>> \printindex
>> 
>> After the third run of pdflatex, I have the files:
>> 
>> main.idx
>> names.idx
>> notation.idx (but empty)
>> 
>> After the run of makeindex, before the final run of pdflatex, I have in addition the file
>> 
>> main.ind.
>> 
>> By contrast, on the rare occasions I can get TeXShop’s pdflatexmk engine to complete all passes, I have also:
>> 
>> names.ind
>> main.nlo      (for the index of notation provided by nomencl)
>> 
>> 
>> My  platexmkrc file is:
>> 
>> $makeindex = "makeindex -s %R.ist %O -o %D %S”;
>> 
>> How should I modify the manual steps so as to accomplish the same thing as a TeXShop run of the pdflatexmk engine, showing all 3 indexes?
>> 
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> Murray Eisenberg			murrayeisenberg at gmail.com
> 503 King Farm Blvd #101	Home (240)-246-7240
> Rockville, MD 20850-6667	Mobile (413)-427-5334
> 

Howdy,

Please take a look at ~/Library/TeXShop/bin/latexmkrcedit and see if that helps set up dependencies and rules.

Are you using the glossaries (or the old glossary) package to generate these files?

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)