David, one thing ..
> shellesc should address this in general but for minted it is fixed in I was hacking support for new luatex into pgf and pgfplots which use write18, too, to call gnuplot etc. But these packages are not necessarily latex only, and as far as I can see I cannot load the shellesc package into a plain tex session. I just copied the minimal code for detection, and submitted it to pgf people, but maybe you can do something about shellesc.sty to make it generic? Thanks Norbert -- PREINING Norbert + TeX Live & Debian Developer + http://www.preining.info GPG: 0x860CDC13 fp: F7D8 A928 26E3 16A1 9FA0 ACF0 6CAC A448 860C DC13
