[TxMt] Re: latex pgfplots cannot find gnuplot tables

[Charilaos Skiadas]

Actually, LaTeX seems quite happy with the one dash as well.

I like the idea of a warning, in combination with the directive.  
Namely, if the directive is there follow it, as I think we do now. If  
it is not there but a package that needs it is loaded, then put up a  
warning, suggesting that the user add such a directive to the document.

Graham, this directive should work in TeXShop as well, that's where  
we got those directives from (In fact, TS is for TeXShop). If I  
remember correctly though, TeXShop is very picky about spaces or not  
around the equal sign, I can't remember what it expects but it is  
picky about it. But it is certainly an "editor" thing, not a "latex"  
thing, so it's up to each editor to support it or not, TeXShop  
started it I think. So that would be something to take up with the  
emacs folks.

Haris Skiadas
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Hanover College

On Sep 2, 2008, at 8:39 AM, Mark Eli Kalderon wrote:

> Not so paranoid about security, but for what it is worth here is a  
> vote
> against enabling --shell escape by default.
>
> The TeX directive is a good idea I think, but there is a potential
> wrinkle. XeTeX doesn't take --shell-escape but -shell-escape, that is,
> one dash preceding, not two. So running XeTeX with a document with the
> proposed TeX directive is going to throw up errors...
>
> On 9/2/2008, "Brad Miller" <millbr02 at luther.edu> wrote:
>
>> 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.