<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=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Aug 5, 2016, at 5:10 PM, 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 5, 2016, at 3:47 PM, Murray Eisenberg <<a href="mailto:murrayeisenberg@gmail.com" class="">murrayeisenberg@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">Is $B supposed to be the name (before extension) of the base .tex file?<br class=""><br class=""></blockquote><br class=""><br class="">...I believe %B is supposed to be the basename of the input file to the command being executed. Did you reatain that dependency and rule you originally wrote? If so please remove it and substitute the one I gave.<br class=""><br class="">If %B doesn't work then try %R which is supposed to be the base name of the original .tex file. Maybe that is what you want anyway….<br class=""><br class="">Good Luck,<br class=""><br class="">Herb Schulz<br class=""></div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div>No “luck” needed, just your experience & expertise! Thanks so much once again.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Using <font face="Courier" class="">%R</font> instead of <font face="Courier" class="">$B</font> works just find in my <font face="Courier" class="">platexmkrc</font>, which for the possible benefit of others who see this is now:</div><div><br class=""></div><div><font face="Courier" class=""> add_cus_dep('glo', 'gls', 0, 'makeglo2gls');</font></div><div><font face="Courier" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> sub makeglo2gls {</font></div><div><font face="Courier" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> system("makeindex -s basic.gst -t '$_[0]'.glg -o '$_[0]'.gls '$_[0]'.glo");</font></div><div><font face="Courier" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> };</font></div><div><font face="Courier" class=""> $makeindex = "makeindex -s %R.ist %O -o %D %S";</font></div><div><br class=""></div><div>(I did _not_ retain the original <font face="Courier" class="">add_cus_dep('idx', 'ind', 0, 'makeidx2ind’); sub makidx2ind </font>rule that I had tried in <span style="font-family: Courier;" class="">platexmkrc</span> .)</div><div><br class=""></div><div class="">
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