[OS X TeX] TexShop's lualatexmk not creating index of names or nomenclature

[Murray Eisenberg]

On Jan 17, 2026, at 10:56 AM, Herbert Schulz via MacOSX-TeX <macosx-tex at email.esm.psu.edu> wrote:
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>> On Jan 17, 2026, at 9:34 AM, Murray Eisenberg <murrayeisenberg at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I have a book-length document with an index along with a separate index of names and an index of notation, the latter produces with the nomencl package. And f course the premable includes
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>> \makenomenclature
>> \makeindex[names]
>> \makeindex
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>> and the document ends with
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>> \printnomenclature
>> \printindex[names]
>> \printindex
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>> (with some related styling commands and changes of \indexname).
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>> Yet when using lualatexmk with TeXShop 5.57, the nomenclature index and the index of names are not printed.
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>> What's wrong?
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>> The source depends on the following files:
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>> % Top of main source file:
>> % !TEX program = lualatex
>> % !BIB program = biber 
>> \NeedsTeXFormat{LaTeX2e}[2025-11-01]
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>> % platexmkrc
>> $makeindex = "makeindex -s %R.ist %O -o %D %S";
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>> \ProvidesFile{nomencl.ist}[2023-05-30 nomenclature style file] 
>> %% ---- for input file ----
>> keyword   "\\nomenclatureentry"
>> quote '%'
>> %% ---- for output file ----
>> preamble   "\n\\begin{thenomenclature} \n"%
>> postamble  "\n\n\\end{thenomenclature}\n" group_skip "\n"
>> delim_0    ""
>> delim_1    ""
>> delim_2    ""
>> %% The next lines will produce some warnings when
>> %% running Makeindex as they try to cover two different
>> %% versions of the program:
>> lethead_prefix "\\nomgroup{"
>> lethead_suffix "}"
>> lethead_flag   1
>> heading_prefix "\\nomgroup{"
>> heading_suffix "}"
>> headings_flag  1
>> line_max 1000
>> \endinput
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>> Also, a nomencl.cfg *which I don't think is relevant to the problem.)
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>> ---
>> Murray Eisenberg murrayeisenberg at gmail.com
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> Howdy,
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> First notice that you are running lualatex not lualatexmk.
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> Second, what .nlo files are produced by the run of lualatex?
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> Note: the latexmkrcedit file found in ~/Library/TeXShop/bin already has a rule for latexmk to produce the proper .lnd file when a .nlo is produced. there is no need for a separate definition of $makeindex in a platexmkrc file.
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Aha: I'd been running lualatexmk by choosing it from the TeXShop typeset drop-down menu; evidently the !TEX program directive overrides that. Live and learn!

Changing the directive to !TEX program = lualatexmk resolved the problem.

Re platexmkrc: please note the last two comments (the first by me, the second by you) in the 2016 post https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/323518/13492


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