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I am following this guide to create an engine-file for TexShop to facilitate the use of the nomenclature package. However, after invoking the engine, it does not happen anything at all - I get no error messages, nor is a file created.
I am using TexShop 3.06 under MacOS Lion and already tried to rule out obvious mistakes (like forgotten return keys etc.). Even if I place echo-commands in the engine file, I get no output.
Are there any ideas on how to obtain a working menu entry?
This might be a correct version of the Nomenclature.engine file:
#! /bin/bash
PATH=/usr/texbin:/usr/local/bin:${PATH}
bfname=${1%\.*}
makeindex "$bfname".nlo -s nomencl.ist -o "$bfname".nls
In my tests it does the required call.
The code given by @egreg works for me. To answer other questions about where it goes, yes I put mine in ~/Library/TeXShop/Engines. If you make a copy of another engine, like XeTeX.engine (found in the same folder), rename it Nomenclature, and replace the contents with what egreg has provided, then you should be all set.
~/Library/TeXShop/Engines, and restart TeXShop? Also would be helpful to see the contents of this engine file? – Peter Grill May 7 '12 at 15:23chmod +x ~/Library/TeXshop/Englines/myengine.engine(wheremyengine.engineis whatever you named your engine file.) – Alan Munn May 7 '12 at 16:50#!/bin/bashset path= ($path /usr/texbin /usr/local/bin)bfname=$(dirname "$1")/"basename "$1" .tex"makeindex "$bfname".nlo -s nomencl.ist -o "$bfname".nls. I also experimented with giving the path to makeindex directly, but neither the content from the original post or any changes worked. – noumea May 11 '12 at 9:44