<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 31 May 2016 at 15:46, Arno Trautmann <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Arno.Trautmann@gmx.de" target="_blank">Arno.Trautmann@gmx.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
I cannot quite grasp the concept of this right now, but thank you very much for the quick response!<br>
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Best,<br>
Arno<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">classic tex (and etex and xetex and luatex until last year) has 16 write streams.<br><br>Normally writing to a number >15 isn't an error but just writes to the log. However web2c tex treats write18 as a hook to call system commands.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">recent luatex releases increase the number of write streams to 256 and drop the special nature of write18: it becomes a normal stream like write17 or write5.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">the shellesc package (which we added to latex/tools earlier this year) defines \write in luatex to check for 18 and if so to use Lua \directlua{os.exec... to call the system command so gets things back on track.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">David<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br></div></div>