[Textures] \write18

[Bruno Voisin]

On 30 janv. 2013, at 23:37, Emilio Faro <efaro at dma.uvigo.es> wrote:

> Thank you very much, Bruno.

Following is a complement of information by Herb Schulz from the (private) MacTeX list.

Bruno 


> From: Herbert Schulz
> Subject: Re: [MacTeX] Fwd: [Textures] \write18
> Date: 30 janvier 2013 23:56:03 UTC+01:00
> To: "MacOS X and TeX."
> Reply-To: "MacOS X and TeX."
> 
> 
> On Jan 30, 2013, at 4:30 PM, Bruno Voisin wrote:
> 
>> Below is a message I've just posted to the Textures list, in which --shell-escape for TeXShop is discussed. Given I'm no specialist on shell escape (I've never used it since we experimented with sips last year), I may as well be wrong. If there's more to answer, please correct me and I'll forward the correction to the Textures list.
>> 
>> Bruno
>> 
>>> [...]
> 
> Howdy,
> 
> Side note:
> 
> You should also update the latexmk engines if you haven't updated recently (you can get the latest as Latexmk435TeXShop.zip from <https://dl.dropbox.com/u/10932738/index.html>) and remove ~/Library/TeXShop/bin/latexmkrcedit if it exists (a new version of that file will be created the first time one of the latexmk engines is run. Also in the updated latexmk engines is a new engine, sepdflatexmk, that does run pdflatexmk with shell escape for those few times you really need it.
> 
> Finally, it important that the texmf.cnf file you place in texmf-local/web2c need to end in a blank line (i.e., two consecutive presses of Return). That isn't obvious in the message above.
> 
> Now to my experience with TeXtures... I started to use PC TeX under DOS in the late 1980's and switched to using TeXtures on a Mac around the early 1990s. I then moved to Framemaker before Adobe bought it and announced that it would no longer support the Mac. Kept using my old version of Framemaker until I finally switched to OS X 10.1 in 2001 since I was seeing the light on the wall. Actually tried to use MS Word but every attempt to tame the beast broke something else and the defaults would take over. Searched around and found Gerben Wierda's TeX Re-distribution (via his i-installer) and TeXShop, returned to my old favorite TeX---although I switched from my personal macro set to LaTeX---and have never turned back.
> 
> Good Luck,
> 
> Herb Schulz
> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)