[OS X TeX] TexShop Configuration

[Herbert Schulz]

On Feb 20, 2007, at 9:57 AM, S P Suresh wrote:

> Hi Herb,
>
> ...
> (Before the completion of the mail, I got to try it out on a subset  
> of that same document. It stops after six runs but gives the  
> following message(s) before quitting:
>
> Transcript written on tark07.log.
> Latexmk: Input bbl file "./tark07.bbl", so turn on bibtex_mode
> Latexmk: Failed to find one or more bibliography files in [ref.bib]
> Latexmk: Failed to find one or more bib files
> Latexmk: File "./tark07.aux" has not changed, so it is valid
> Latexmk: File './tark07.ent' changed during run.  I must rerun latex
> Latexmk: Absolute maximum runs of latex reached without finding  
> stable source files
>
> I don't understand the messages about the bib files. It is always  
> output at the end. Even when all the bib files are present and it  
> correctly typesets. But what about the last message?)
>
>

Howdy,

Hmmm... I'm also seeing the equivalent of the last two lines in my  
test file; didn't notice that before---the final results look ok  
here. The .ent file is something created by the endnote package so  
I'm not sure why it is driving latexmk crazy. Another bug to report  
to John Collins.

As far as the bibliography problem is concerned, would you copy the  
contents of the (pdf)latexmk.engine file you are using here. Latexmk  
tries to use BIBINPUTS to find bib files before bibtex, which uses  
kpsewhich,  does. With most TeX distribution on OS X the BIBINPUTS  
shell variable isn't set so you can get an error message from  
latexmk. I ``fixed'' this in later versions of the engine files by  
basically setting the BIBINPUTS variable to the path along which  
kpsewhich searches. This is only a temporary fix and latexmk should  
really be using kpsewhich to search for the bib file; John Collins  
knows about this already. I just want to make sure the error message  
from latexmk is not just the spurious one.

> While I am at it, here is another thing that happened with the same  
> paper. In the early stages, when I hadn't inserted the citations,  
> latexmk would quit with the following message:
>
> This is BibTeX, Version 0.99c (Web2C 7.5.6)
> The top-level auxiliary file: tark07.aux
> The style file: alpha.bst
> I found no \citation commands---while reading file tark07.aux
> Database file #1: ref.bib
> (There was 1 error message)
> Latexmk: Did not finish processing file: Bibtex reported an error
> Latexmk: Use the -f option to force complete processing.
>

This looks like bibtex is reporting an error when it find no  
citations in the .aux file. Latexmk gets this error and quits. You  
should be able to force latexmk to ignore the error by editing the  
(xe/pdf)latexmk.engine file and adding the -f option to the command  
line given there.

> I thought BibTeX wouldn't even be called in such cases! This means  
> that I cannot just add
> 	%!TEX_PROGRAM = pdflatexmk
> to my documents by default. Have you seen similar behaviour / do  
> you have any suggestions?
>

I'll be you get the same error message from bibtex when you process  
on the command line. The difference is that you ignored it :-).

> BTW, just in case you think I am all complaints, let me hasten to  
> add that latexmk and your engines are a great convenience. I  
> downloaded them the first time I saw your mail about it (four /  
> five months ago, maybe) and they have been (mostly!) just working  
> great.

If you are still using those ``old'' engines I'd suggest you update  
to the latest which gets rid of the silly error message about latexmk  
not finding a bib file (unless it's in the working directory).

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest.com)



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