<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">When I run a web2c tex engine on the command line, I am used to passing it an option like, e.g.,<div class=""><br class=""></div><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;" class=""><div class="">latex <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">-kpathsea-debug=-1 hello</span></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">and see in the console the kdebug: statements, the details of tex's searching for files to \input.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">When running TeXShop, I would like to, from time to time, do likewise. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">My attempt:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I did attempt via TeXShop’s Preferences / Engine panel by going to the pdfTeX group where I made entries in the fields as follows:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;" class=""><div class="">Tex</div><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;" class=""><div class="">pdftex -shell-escape <span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">-kpathsea-debug=-1</span></div></blockquote><div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Latex</span></div><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;" class=""><div class=""><div class="">pdflatex -shell-escape <span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">-kpathsea-debug=-1</span></div></div></blockquote></blockquote><div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">but without success. </span></div><div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">BTW, I am using engine pdflatexmk.</span></div><div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">When I examine the Console, I find,</span></div><div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></span></div><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;" class=""><div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><div class="">Running 'pdflatex -shell-escape --synctex=1 --file-line-error -recorder "AfterTax.tex"'</div></span></div></blockquote><div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This makes me think that I really do not have clarity on how these tools fit together.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Does anyone know a way? </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Respectfully submitted—Arthur Ogawa</div></span></div></body></html>