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“shell escape” is not enabled - chemscheme/chemstyle
I am having issues with -shell-escape. I do not know really what this is, and how to apply it. Furthermore, I have read elsewhere that I is possibly dangerous to summon this command. Any help would be ...
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PSTricks and LaTeX vs. pdfLaTeX
I'm trying to convert my thesis to pdfLaTeX, as latex + dvips behaves ugly when it comes to break (really long) URLs... I'm using up-to-date TeXLive 2012 on Linux.
The only problem is (so far), that ...
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Does the lualatex shell enable behavior differ from pdflatex on purpose?
I am trying to use TikzEdt, an editor for TikZ graphics. For some tasks TikZ needs to call other commands so I tried to enable this by the parameter --shell-escape passed to lualatex (on Windows, ...
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How to enable shell-escape in TeXworks?
I require use of the minted package of similar one which support Prolog syntax-highlighting.
Given that I use the TeXworks "IDE", how do I enable shell-escape?
Though I attempted—see above—I still ...
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Compiling CircuiTikZ with -shell-escape (pdflatex)
I'm trying to use both CircuiTikZ and pgfplots. In order not to overflow LaTeX memory, I use the TikZ externalize library with -shell-escape command in pdfLaTeX. It compiles the pgfplots nicely, but ...
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Trailing space to end \input| argument
Why do \message{\input|"texlua ..."} and \message{\input|"texlua ..." } give very different results? Notice the extra space before } in the second case.
Minimal example to be compiled with pdftex ...
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Using \input|texlua… to emulate \directlua in pdfTeX
When --shell-escape is enabled, pdfTeX allows to run external programs and input the result expandably with \input|"...". Together with the Lua interpreter texlua, this could be used to provide a ...
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GraphViz and LaTeX; gives blank PDF
I've tried 4 different .sty files (most of which didn't work, some of which gave me errors on rendered page).
Now trying with the dot2texi package, which is giving me a blank PDF.
I have tried ...
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How to get DVI files vs PDF files when using pstricks, aquamacs, and mactex
My setup is generating DVI output vs PDF when using pstricks with Aquamacs 2.3a and MacTex 2011
Simple latex files will create pdf files as expected from inside aquamacs and auto view in skim. When ...
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epstopdf warning: “Shell escape feature is not enabled.”
I'm having a bit of trouble trying to include .eps files in a LaTeX document compiled with pdfLaTeX. I've been told that I should use the epstopdf package to convert .eps files to .pdf on the fly.
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\write18 pass % through to shell
This has sort of been touched on in some other postings, but for path reasons I would like to avoid using a shell script and just use ImageMagick's (IM) convert command line executable directly from a ...
