[OS X TeX] Package incompatability?

[Herbert Schulz]

On Jan 19, 2009, at 3:33 PM, Jim Reeds wrote:

> I am writing a book and (perhaps fooishly) agreed to supply camera
> ready copy.  In the course of this I found that some packages I want  
> to use
> do not seem to be consistent with each other.
>
> The following illustrates my problems.
> On an OS 10.5.6 Intel, running the version 2008 Texlive from
> the shell, as in
>
>  pdflatex foo
>  makeindex foo
>  pdflatex foo
>
> the second pdflatex run bombs.
>
>
>
>
> ---- file foo.tex ---
> \documentclass{report}
>
> %%%
> %
> % crop/mparhack/makeidx don't play nicely together!
> %
> % but any pair of them does.
> %
> %%%
>
>
> \usepackage[dvips=false,pdftex=false,vtex=false,verbose]{geometry}
> \geometry{twoside,top=1in,width=32pc,lines=50,papersize={7in, 
> 10in},bindingoffset=.25in,hmarginratio=1:1}
>
> \usepackage[cross,font=textsf,center,letter]{crop}
> \usepackage{mparhack}
> \usepackage{makeidx}
>
> \makeindex
> \begin{document}
> fee\index{fee}
> figh\index{fi}
> foe\index{fo}
>
> \printindex
> \end{document}
> --- EOF ---
>
> I love my crop marks, and I need my index.  The marginal notes (I have
> zillions of them) occasionally end in the wrong margin if I don't  use
> mparhack.  I know I can make the index in a separate run, with
> crop marks but not marginal notes.  But why doesn't theabove stuff  
> work?
>
> Thanks!
>


Howdy,

Let's see... In MacTeX 2008 the crop package is v1.9 dated 2003/05/20,  
the mparhack package is v1.4 dated 2005/04/17 and the makeidx package  
is v1.0m dated 2000/03/29. They haven't changed in quite a while so if  
they worked after 2005 they should still work today.

Peter Dyballa has a good point about the geometry package but I can  
leave that package out completely as well as use the article class and  
get the same error. It also doesn't work if I use the index package  
instead of the makeidx package or change the order of the package  
loading. The ndx file looks fine too.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)