[texshop] How use Carlisle's "mylatex" package with TeXShop?

[Murray Eisenberg]

I “precompiled” using the mylatexformat (rather than mylatex) package.

Curious that 

	% !TEX program = pdflatexmk 
	% !TEX parameter = -fmt fmtname   [with just the form name or with extension name.fmt]

which you report worked for you, did NOT work for me if I tried to typeset using the latex engine choice from the menu button.

On the other hand, either

	%&fmtname       [format file name with NO extension]
 
alone or 

	%&fmtname
	%!TEX TS-program = fmtname

did work.

However,

	%!TEX TS-program = fmtname

alone did NOT work.

What could adcount for the discrepancy between our two situations?
> On 6 Dec2020, at 9:26 AM, Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Dec 5, 2020, at 2:05 PM, Murray Eisenberg <murrayeisenberg at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> (1) Does 
>> 
>> 	% !TEX parameter = "&mylatex”
>> 
>> refer to making the fmt file, or typesetting runs after making the fmt file?
> 
> Howdy,
> 
> That is for the typesetting run and once you have the .fmt file you can name it anything you want.
> 
> Also, that didn't seem to work for me but using
> 
> % !TEX program = pdflatexmk
> % !TEX parameter = -fmt fmtname
> 
> (where fmtname is the name of your fmtname.fmt file which should be in the same folder as your .tex document or ~/Library/texmf/web2c) does seem to work.
> 
>> 
>> (2) It turns out I have to use the package mylatexformat rather than mylatex in order to successfully compile a fmt file from my source’s preamble.
>> 
>> In that case, do I correctly assume that I just change “&mylatex” to “&mylatexformat”?
>> 
>> I note that https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/377033/13492 gives instead the instruction to put the line
>> 
>> 	%&foo
>> 
>> at the top of my source named foo during typesetting runs (after I created the .fmt).
>> 
> 
> I'm not familiar with that but, if it works you can remove the `parameter' directive for TeXShop. It sounds like the %& is a special directive for pdflatex.
> 
> Good Luck,
> 
> Herb Schulz
> herbs at wideopenwest.com
> 
> 

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