<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 04 Aug 2016, at 14:52, Herbert Schulz <<a href="mailto:herbs@wideopenwest.com" class="">herbs@wideopenwest.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On Aug 4, 2016, at 7:22 AM, Martin Bergren <<a href="mailto:martin.berggren@cs.umu.se" class="">martin.berggren@cs.umu.se</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">I would like to be able to use<br class=""><br class="">\usepgfplotslibrary{external}<br class=""><br class="">for pgfplots, which apparently should be able to store the pgfplots or tikz figures as pdfs to shorten latexing time. The problem seem to be write18. <br class="">Is there a way around it?<br class=""><br class="">Cheers,<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Martin Berggren<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">Howdy,<br class=""><br class="">Assuming you are using TeXShop:<br class=""><br class="">One thing you can use is the sepdflatexmk engine. This is set up to use latexmk so that all processing through bibtex/biber and makeindex is taken care of if necessary and the pdflatex has the --shell-escape flag set. To use it simply place the line<br class=""><br class="">% !TEX TS-program = sepdflatexmk<br class=""><br class="">at the top of your file and then typeset the document by simply using Typeset->Typeset (Cmd-T).<br class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>But this is not a bibtex/biber and makeindex issue. This is about pgfplots, which I think is running (in my case) lualatex in the background to produce the plots.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Cheers,</div><br class=""><div class=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; border-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2; border-spacing: 0px;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Martin Berggren</div><div class="">-------------------------------------------------------------------<br class="">Department of Computing Science, Umeå Universitet<br class="">Campustorget 5, S-901 87 Umeå, Sweden. Ph: +46-70-732 8111<br class=""><a href="http://www.cs.umu.se/~martinb" class="">http://www.cs.umu.se/~martinb</a>, <a href="mailto:Martin.Berggren@cs.umu.se" class="">Martin.Berggren@cs.umu.se</a><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""></blockquote></div></div><br class=""></body></html>