reopen 503122
retitle 503122 gnuplottex: clarify the need for -shell-escape in PDF
severity 503122 minor
thanks
also sprach Ralf Stubner <ralf.stubner@web.de> [2008.10.22.2010 +0200]:
> ,----[ gnuplottex.pdf -- Introduction ]
> | Shell escape is available in the web2c TEX compiler, it allows the
> | execution of shell code during the compilation of a TEX
> | document. It's disabled by default, you'll have to edit your
> | configuration files or give the -shell-escape option to latex.
> `----
>
> Indeed '(pdf)latex -shell-escape example.tex' works as expected.
Ok, but I am confused, because later it says for options:
[<shell>] Use shell escape to automatically generate the graphs
from the gnuplot source files. This is the default.
When I then ran latex, it said that I should create the graphs
manually, which seems to be what the 'noshell' option does. Thus
I assumed that there was an error.
Apparently one has to have the right package option *and* pass
-shell-escape. This is not at all clear. Maybe the documentation
could be updated?
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