[OS X TeX] Metapost broken with TL2004 ?

Adam Lindsay atl at comp.lancs.ac.uk
Mon Jan 17 02:06:59 CET 2005


Gerben said:
>> Thanks to Jean Claude de Soza !  Here is the answer :
>>
>> i-installer  overwrites usr/local/teteX/texmf.cnf , and in the new 
>> file shell-escape is set to "f".
>
>Yep. "Safe" is default. Sorry for the inconvenience. If I ever have the 
>time I'll try to incorporate setting it to "t" in the configure phase.

Yeah, for ConTeXt I now advocate setting shell-escape on a per-job basis
via texexec configuration, rather than with every single TeX job. I
documented it here:
<http://contextgarden.net/Texmf.cnf>
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