Hi Stephan,
thanks for your quick answer ;-)
Am 11.01.2011 12:21, schrieb Stephan Witt:
> Am 11.01.2011 um 11:55 schrieb Hellmut Weber:
>
>> Hi list,
>>
>> Given a little python-Skript fipwdcut
>> ...
>> and a LaTeX macro \pwdstring
>>
>> ------------------------
>> newcommand{\pwdstring}[1]{
>> \immediate\write18{/home/H_Bin/fipwdcut #1 >/tmp/shell.escape}
>> \input{/tmp/shell.escape}
>> }
>> ------------------------
>>
>> I have defined aliases for latex and pdflatex
>>
>> ------------------------
>> l...@sylhepta H_Bin $ alias
>> alias latex='latex -shell-escape'
>> alias pdflatex='pdflatex -shell-escape'
>> --------------------
>>
>> hoping that pdflatex-ing a document with an ERT \pwdstring{4} at the end
>> would show me the end part of the path to the directory the document was
>> compiled in.
>
> LyX doesn't resolve shell aliases like your shell does.
This was already my suspicion and it's helpful to have it confirmed.
>
>> (I know that I have to export my document as latex source and then to
>> compile it again to get the correct directory ;-)
>>
>> But Lyx refuses to do so and in the LaTeX protocoll I get the error message
>>
>> ============================
>> runsystem(/home/H_Bin/fipwdcut 4 >/tmp/shell.escape)...disabled
>> (restricted).
>> ! LaTeX Error: File `/tmp/shell.escape' not found.
>> ============================
>>
>> I tried to activate the shell-escape option of the pdflatex command in
>> the converters dialog for 'latex (pdflatex) -> PDF (pdflatex)' changing
>> the additional flags to 'shell-escape' but this produces the same error
>> message as before.
>
> Did you use 'shell-escape' or '-shell-escape'?
Actually I tried both of them
Anything else I can do?
Cheers
Hellmut
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