gnuplottex not recognizing options

Question

I want to use gnuplottex to draw graphs in a LaTeX document.
The problem is, gnuplottex doesn't accept any options.

A mwe would be like

\documentclass[a4paper,11pt,titlepage,twoside,openright,toc=listof, toc=bibliography]{scrreprt}  
\usepackage[a4paper, left=4cm, right=2cm, top=2.5cm, bottom=2.5cm]{geometry}
\usepackage[english]{babel}

\usepackage{graphicx}  
\usepackage{epstopdf}  
\usepackage[shell]{gnuplottex}

\begin{document}

\begin{figure}[hbt]  
\centering  
\begin{gnuplot}[terminal=epslatex,terminaloptions=color]  
set xrange[0:3.1415]   
set yrange[-1:1]  
set grid 
plot sin(x)

\end{gnuplot}  
\end{figure}

\end{document}

The [shell] option doesn't bother pdflatex, but doesn't help with converting the files either (I have to use pdflatex --shell-escape mwe.tex to compile).

The [subfolder] option is even worse, this produces:

! LaTeX Error: Unknown option `subfolder' for package `gnuplottex'.

See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.   Type  H <return>  for immediate help.    ...                                  


l.54 \ProcessOptions\relax

?

I'm using pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.10 (TeX Live 2009/Debian)

Any ideas what might cause this strange behaviour of gnuplottex?

Answer 1

The shell option tells the package to use code that requires shell escape. This is the default behaviour, so you don't need to explicitly include the option. However, for security reasons you can't enable shell escape for the engine from within a document. You need the --shell-escape option.

I don't think the version of gnuplottex in TeXLive 2009 had the subfolder option. Update your TeX distribution to get rid of this problem.