Is it possible and if so how can you pass flags to the ShareLaTeX compiler which one would have passed as parameters to the LaTeX compiler?
I am using the minted package and need to pass the -shell-escape flag.
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Joseph Wright
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6You are very unlikely to be allowed shell escape on a server-based installation. – Joseph Wright Apr 22 '13 at 06:19
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ShareLaTeX announced in their newsletter from January 28th 2014, that their compiler now supports the minted package
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2ONLY if you place it in the root folder of your project - if you place it in a subdirectory it breaks. – Centril Jan 30 '16 at 00:40
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Wow, that really got me confused. Thanks. They should be more clear with that. – lindhe Apr 22 '16 at 09:22
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Note that it also supports converting images from pdf format to png images – Thorbjørn E. K. Christensen Nov 15 '17 at 07:55
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Without an 'official line' from the ShareLaTeX people, the answer we can give is almost certainly 'no'. The -shell-escape system is turned off as standard for a reason: there are security issues. On a server, these become even more important than on a stand-alone machine. Even if you were allowed -shell-escape, without Pygmentize installed minted still won't work.
It would be possible for ShareLaTeX to install Pygmentize and add it to the 'trusted' list of programs that LaTeX can run without -shell-escape, but minted actually checks for -shell-escape so this wouldn't work. You are therefore out of luck, I think.
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Alltough a few weeks old now, people might still be interested in a solution. If you are running your own docker, you get this done quite simple by activating the
-shell-escape
flag and installing the software and packages you need (in your case minted). But keep in mind, this is a severe security issue as users can basically run every bash command out of LaTeX now!
Edit /var/www/pdflatex and add the flag, thats all you need to do.
You can also move
pdflatex (in /usr/bin/ or something like this) to pdflatex_orig
and replace pdflatex through a script calling pdflatex_orig with addtionally added flags.
Not much work to be done to edit this, but of course you need your own ShareLaTeX docker to do so.
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It looks like you've got two separate accounts, which means you cannot edit your original post or leave comments. The Stack Exchange staff can merge them together for you. – samcarter_is_at_topanswers.xyz Sep 23 '16 at 10:54