General ⇒ making macros

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There is a macro under Macros--Applescript for creating a bibliography, but I'd like to make one to create an index and glossary. Presently I'm going into Terminal and typing something like this:

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cd path/to/directory
makeindex filename.idx
makeindex filename.glo -s filename.ist -t filename.glg -o filename.gls

Thanks in advance for any help.

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Okay, so I never did get it to work. But where there's a will there's a relative, and I decided to forget the LaTex macros and just do it all in Applescript

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set this_file to "myfilename"
set this_dir to choose folder
set mydir to POSIX path of this_dir
do shell script "cd " & mydir & "; 
ls; 
/usr/texbin/makeindex " & this_file & ".idx; 
/usr/texbin/makeindex " & this_file & ".glo -s " & this_file & ".ist -t " & this_file & ".glg -o " & this_file & ".gls"


set frontName to "myfile.tex"

tell document frontName of application "TeXShop"
	
	latexinteractive
	
	repeat
		delay 2
		if taskdone then
			exit repeat
		end if
	end repeat
	
	bibtex
	
	repeat
		delay 2
		if taskdone then
			exit repeat
		end if
	end repeat
	
	latex
	
	repeat
		delay 2
		if taskdone then
			exit repeat
		end if
	end repeat
	
	latex
	
	repeat
		delay 2
		if taskdone then
			exit repeat
		end if
	end repeat
	
end tell

This does a glossary, an index, and a bibliography.