[OS X TeX] Creating a glossar

[Herbert Schulz]

On Jan 26, 2007, at 4:21 PM, Peter Dyballa wrote:

>
> I just had a TeX file open in TeXShop, having remembered some  
> things – there seems to be everything already ready for you! There  
> is the Macros menu and in it Claus Gerhardt's Macros, and one of  
> those is bibtex!
>
>

Howdy,

The file name passed as $1 to the engine file includes the extension,  
e.g., fname.tex, since the file you are editing is fname.tex. The  
built-in BibTeX command in TeXShop strips the extension and runs  
bibtex on the base name (after switching to the directory of the  
source file):

bibtex fname

and then bibtex assumes it's the fname.aux file that is input. This  
is NOT the case here.

> Obviously it's not so good to never use TeXShop for editing ...
>
>
> And you are editing in TeXShop the file myglossar.gls? Or another  
> file for this purpose that has always the extension .gls? This is  
> an important item, because in this case this part of Herb's engine  
> script from two weeks ago
>
> 	"`basename "$1" .tex`"
>
> must not be used (it would fail, anyway).

Yes, but doing

bfname = "`basename "$1" .tex`"
bibtex "$bfname".gls

will do the right thing.

> (And the first part
>
> 	bfname=$(dirname "$1")/
>
> is also not necessary, since TeXShop only passes the file's name  
> including its extension to a macro or engine script. The  
> directory's name is contained in the environment variable $PWD.) ...

This is true but is harmless (it just returns .) and is left over  
from when I didn't realize that the script was executed in the same  
directory as the source file.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest.com)



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