[texworks] Message from TeXworks user
Arno Trautmann
Arno.Trautmann at gmx.de
Tue Sep 20 08:07:06 CEST 2011
Herbert Schulz wrote:
>
> On Sep 19, 2011, at 5:52 PM, David-Arnold wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Trying to compile this file. Compiles fine and produces the graphic in Texshop with --shell-escape enabled.
>>
>> Compiles but does not produce the graph in Texworks.
>>
>> How do I enable --shell-escape or whatever to get the graphic to show up.
>>
>> David
>
>
> Howdy,
>
> To turn it on permanently go to Preferences->Typesetting and Double Click on the pdflatex processing tool to open it for editing. Then add a new argument line and insert
>
> --shell-escape
>
> for the argument. Finally press OK. From then on all runs of pdflatex will use --shell-escape.
Actually I wondered why there isn't a predefined value for
--shell-escape. It does not really lower the barriers for a beginner if
they have to adjust command line parameters, does it?
> I know there is a command that will allow you to activate shell escape on a file by file basis but I'm having trouble finding it at the moment.
Oh? Never heard of that. Is it one of the switches below, obtained with
luatex --help
?
cheers
Arno
--8bit ignored, input is assumed to be in
UTF-8 encoding
--credits display credits and exit
--debug-format enable format debugging
--default-translate-file= ignored, input is assumed to be in
UTF-8 encoding
--disable-write18 disable \write18{SHELL COMMAND}
--draftmode switch on draft mode (generates no
output PDF)
--enable-write18 enable \write18{SHELL COMMAND}
--etex ignored, the etex extensions are
always active
--[no-]file-line-error disable/enable file:line:error style
messages
--[no-]file-line-error-style aliases of --[no-]file-line-error
--fmt=FORMAT load the format file FORMAT
--halt-on-error stop processing at the first error
--help display help and exit
--ini be iniluatex, for dumping formats
--interaction=STRING set interaction mode
(STRING=batchmode/nonstopmode/scrollmode/errorstopmode)
--jobname=STRING set the job name to STRING
--kpathsea-debug=NUMBER set path searching debugging flags
according to the bits of NUMBER
--lua=s load and execute a lua initialization
script
--[no-]mktex=FMT disable/enable mktexFMT generation
(FMT=tex/tfm)
--nosocket disable the lua socket library
--output-comment=STRING use STRING for DVI file comment
instead of date (no effect for PDF)
--output-directory=DIR use DIR as the directory to write files to
--output-format=FORMAT use FORMAT for job output; FORMAT is
'dvi' or 'pdf'
--[no-]parse-first-line disable/enable parsing of the first
line of the input file
--progname=STRING set the program name to STRING
--recorder enable filename recorder
--safer disable easily exploitable lua commands
--[no-]shell-escape disable/enable \write18{SHELL COMMAND}
--shell-restricted restrict \write18 to a list of
commands given in texmf.cnf
--synctex=NUMBER enable synctex
--translate-file= ignored, input is assumed to be in
UTF-8 encoding
--version display version and exit
Alternate behaviour models can be obtained by special switches
--luaonly run a lua file, then exit
--luaconly byte-compile a lua file, then exit
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