[OS X TeX] Creating a glossar

[Herbert Schulz]

On Jan 15, 2007, at 12:29 PM, Christian Burk wrote:

>
> What the hell... I must have been blind arrggh - Thanks anyway.
>
> But for creating the index I have to use the following command line:
>
> -----
> makeindex -s test_glossar.ist -t test_glossar.glg -o  
> test_glossar.gls test_glossar.glo
> -----
>
> Is there way to do this with that "engines" in TeXShop - it would  
> be more handy?
>
>
> Thanks
> Christian

Howdy,

Sure there is! Make a copy of any of the engine files in ~/Library/ 
TeXShop/Engines/ (to preserve the executable bit), rename it  
MakeGlossary.engine (or whatever you wish.engine) and double click it  
to open in TeXShop. Substitute

#!/bin/sh
bfname=$(dirname "$1")/"`basename "$1" .tex`"
makeindex -s "$bfname".ist -t "$bfname".glg -o "$bfname".gls  
"$bfname".glo

for the contents of the original engine file (note: everything from  
the makeindex to the end is on a single line --- in case it is  
wrapped on your screen).

Right now there is a bug that won't let you choose a different engine  
if you have a

%!TEX TSprogram = xxxxxx

line so leave that off.

You could, of course, run pdflatex before and a couple of times after  
the makeindex to fully make the file.

I'm hoping that latexmk will eventually be updated to include  
glossary and nomencl processing (it does index processing  
automatically now) as well as support the multibib and multiind  
packages and then all the processing will be taken care of  
automatically.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest.com)



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