[Ipe-discuss] Passing arguments to pdflatex (to set -shell-escape flag)

[Otfried Cheong]

On Mon, Mar 14, 2016, at 16:02, Paulo Sérgio Almeida wrote:
> I mostly write maths or code fragments and lately I have been using
> the minted package for code. This package forces me to invoke pdflatex
> with the -shell-escape flag. Is there any configuration option or
> environment var which allows choosing the arguments that Ipe passes
> when invoking pdflatex?

No, not currently - you are the first to request that.

Of course you could just make a shell script "pdflatex" and put it on
your path somewhere where it will be found instead of the real pdflatex,
like this:

#!/bin/bash
/usr/bin/pdflatex -shell-escape $1

Cheers,
 Otfried