[OS X TeX] How use pdflatex-dev and xelatex-dev with TeXShop

[Herbert Schulz]

> On Apr 5, 2022, at 11:02 AM, Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com> wrote:
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>> On Apr 5, 2022, at 10:28 AM, Murray Eisenberg <murrayeisenberg at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> How should TeXShop (4.70) with TeXLive 2022 (from MacTeX 2022) be configured so as to use pdflatex-dev anc xelatex-dev?
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>> It would seem that in TeXShop’s Preferences > Engine > pdfTeX I can change the LaTeX command to:
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>> 	pdflatex-dev --file-line-error --synctex=1
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>> (1) Is that all? Or alternatives?
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>> (2) What about xelatex?
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> Howdy,
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> Enclosed are latexmk based engines for using latex-dev, lualatex-dev, pdflatex-dev and xelatex-dev with the obvious names latexmk-dev.engine, lualatexmk-dev.engine, pdflatexmk-dev.engine and xelatexmk-dev.engine.
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> Place those four engines in ~/Library/TeXShop/Engines and the four auxiliary *rc files in ~/Library/TeXShop/bin/tslatexmk. The engines will then show up in TeXShop after it's re-started.
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> The naming convention makes it easy to switch from the normal to the dev version by just adding -dev to the engine name in TeXShop's program (or TS-program) directive.
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> <latexmk based dev engines.zip>
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> Good Luck,
> 
> Herb Schulz
> herbs at wideopenwest.com

Howdy,

PS: Those engines default to using the version of latexmk found in the active TeX Distribution (e.g., the one in TeX Live 2022 as installed by MacTeX-2022) but will use an internal TeXShop version of latexmk if the distribution doesn't have latexmk.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
herbs at wideopenwest.com