[tex-live] LuaLaTeX potential problems

[Herbert Schulz]

> On May 15, 2016, at 3:33 AM, David Carlisle <d.p.carlisle at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On 14 May 2016 at 22:56, Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com> wrote:
>>> On May 14, 2016, at 7:02 AM, David Carlisle <d.p.carlisle at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Just to confirm this is already reported to the standalone source repository
>>> 
>>> https://bitbucket.org/martin_scharrer/standalone/issues/23/no-write18-or-pdfxxx-commands-in-luatex
>>> 
>>> David
>> 
>> Howdy,
>> 
>> Thanks for this information. I have a tikz example file that needs to call gnuplot (via \write18) that failed under LuaLaTeX but adding \RequirePackage{shellesc} fixed it up.
>> 
>> Good Luck,
>> 
>> Herb Schulz
>> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)
>> 
>> 
> 
> If you were calling write18 directly yourself that's probably how it
> has to be. If the system call was behind some tikz interface tikz
> probably should (now) be using os.exec not write18 on luatex, which is
> something you could report to them.
> 
> David

Howdy,

In this case the \write18 is via the tikz-fct. I'll report it to them.

Thanks again.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)