[OS X TeX] Package incompatability?

[Tim Brophy]

It works perfectly using Texshop on my iMac

Tim Brophy


On 19 Jan 2009, at 23:57, Herbert Schulz wrote:

>
> 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)
>
>
>
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