On 28/05/2012, at 4:54 AM, Herbert Schulz wrote: > > $TSUserCompileOptions = '--shell-escape'; > > to have an empty string, i.e., > > $TSUserCompileOptions = ''; > > and all the latexmk engines will lose the --shell-escape flag. Does this have any tangible benefit (i.e, increase compilation speed), or is it just the proper way to do things? Michael