On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 5:04 AM, Charilaos Skiadas
<cskiadas@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sep 2, 2008, at 5:48 AM, Graham Smith wrote:
> Charilaos
>
>
>> This is almost certainly a path issue. First off, open the file again
>> in TextMate, and press "opt-cmd-," which opens up the LaTeX
>> preferences. Then click on the "Verbose TeX output" option, and type
>> "-shell-escape" without the quotes in the Options box.
>
> In fact this was all that was needed, it now works perfectly :-)
Glad to hear it!
It might be worth for us to consider enabling the flag by default
when certain packages are included. For instance, we could search for
pgfplots inclusion in the document, and automatically enable -shell-
escape in that case. Right now, you would have that enabled for all
your files unless you change it back each time, and presumably having
it enabled has security consequences. Any thoughts from other more
experiences LaTeX users? Are there other packages that need -shell-
escape? Brad, what's your view?
I don't know how people feel about the security issue, but the online docs I've found are pretty clear about not enabling --shell-escape for documents you haven't written yourself. I rarely download tex source and typeset it so this is not a big deal for me. Although texMate could auto-enable the shell-escape option by detecting certain packages it would have no way of knowing whether the user had written the document or not. Perhaps a middle ground would be to put up a warning if one of the packages is included and the user has not enabled shell-escape.
Rather than setting the global option to enable shell-escape users can also insert the following line at the top of their document:
%!TEX TS-options = --shell-escape
This can be done manually or by using the File Preferences menu in the latex bundle.
Brad
And now, off to the second day of classes for me.
> Many thanks for this, aren't problems simple to solve when you know
> the answer, and indeed, how to ask the question properly.
>
> Graham
Haris Skiadas
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Hanover College
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