[OS X TeX] Shell-escape

[Herbert Schulz]

> On Jan 8, 2021, at 1:03 PM, Alessandro Andretta via MacOSX-TeX <macosx-tex at email.esm.psu.edu> wrote:
> 
> Hi everyone. Can anyone tell me how to create a new engine in TeXShop to typeset a file, call it foo.tex, as
> pdflatex -shell-escape foo.tex
> rather than pdflatex foo.tex ?
> So far I have used the terminal, but I’d rather have a command available in TeXShop.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> 	—aa

Howdy,

If you are willing to use a latexmk based engine, pdflatexmk, which will also run bibtex (or biber --- automatically chosen) and/or makeindex if necessary to completely typeset your document just place the lines

% !TEX program = pdflatexmk
% !TEX parameter = -shell-escape

at the top of your file.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
herbs at wideopenwest.com