[OS X TeX] TeXShop and latexmk and makeindex -s gind, oh my

Herbert Schulz herbs at wideopenwest.com
Wed Oct 20 03:42:24 CEST 2010


On Oct 19, 2010, at 8:40 PM, Herbert Schulz wrote:

> 
> On Oct 19, 2010, at 8:36 PM, Herbert Schulz wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On Oct 19, 2010, at 7:53 PM, Martin Wilhelm Leidig wrote:
>> 
>>> Good afternoon *!
>>> 
>>> First, let me thank HerbS for the latexmk/TeXShop support!
>>> 
>>> Frequently writing DTX files in the last few months, I'm using doc.sty/docstrip et al.; these packages require the gind indexstyle which has to be given as an argument when calling makeindex:
>>> ---
>>> makeindex -s gind blubb
>>> ---
>>> (which would make blubb.ind fgrom blubb.idx using gind.bst).  Sometimes one needs even more arguments, e.g., for making the version history which uses alternate file extensions _and_ a custom style:
>>> ---
>>> makeindes -s gglo -i blubb.glo -o blubb.gls
>>> ---
>>> 
>>> Is it possible to supply the latexmk call with some argument(s) like that on a per-TeX-document base?
>>> 
>>> Thanks for all hints!
>>> 
>>> 
>>> … with regards from Ladenburg:
>>> 
>>> -MWL-
>> 
>> Howdy,
>> 
>> The best way to do this is to build a custom engine and rc file for this. Let me try to put something together for you. There is no way that I know of to do this on the fly. As a matter of fact the glo/gls extensions are used by the glossary and glossaries packages but with different ist files so a bit more work has to be done to make the two independent. It shouldn't be hard but I'll have to do the work tomorrow.
>> 
>> Good Luck,
>> 
>> Herb Schulz
>> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)
>> 
> 
> Howdy,
> 
> Oh... do you typeset with pdflatex or latex?
> 
> Good Luck,
> 
> Herb Schulz
> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)
> 

Howdy,

I'm hitting send too fast... I'm not at all sure latexmk will understand the dtx extension. I'll have to check on that.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)






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