picky about it. But it is certainly an "editor" thing, not a "latex" thing,
Not really relevant to this group, but now that I know its an editor issue a quick google gave me the solution to emacs/auctex problem
%%% Local variables: %%% mode: LaTeX %%% LaTeX-command: "latex -shell-escape" %%% TeX-master: t %%% End:
Inserted at the beginning of the file makes it all work.
Many thanks again.
Graham