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I am having difficulties setting up my system right in order to add the gnuplottex abbility. I followed this tutorial: adding gnuplot capability to latex and also used the mwe posted in this thread. In addition to that, I have spent quite some time researching without figuring out what the problem is.

I am using windows 8.1, miktex 2.9, texmaker 4.2 and gnuplot 4.6. I have added the command --enable-write18 to the pdflatex command and also tried different versions I have read about.

While compiling the mwe a warning is shown for a short moment about not finding the commands touch and rm. There is an entry in the log-file:

\verbatim@out=\write3
runsystem(touch w18-test-20148448.tex)...executed.

runsystem(rm -f w18-test-20148448.tex)...executed.


Package gnuplottex Warning: Shell escape not enabled.
(gnuplottex)                You'll need to convert the graphs yourself..

Does anybody know a solution how to add the abbility to compile gnuplottex codes with my system setup? Every and any hint is appreciated.

Thats how i enabled shell escape in TexMaker: enter image description here

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  • I never used gnuplottex at all, but touch and rm are UNIX/Linux commands, at least in their origins. Perhaps you have to use cygwin or install the gnu environment to use this package or at least portions of it. The true error seems to be, that --enable-write18 does not work for your setup, perhaps due to security restrictions. –  Aug 03 '14 at 23:03
  • @ChristianHupfer I have never used a Linux system and I am not familiar with these commands. I have tried to install cygwin once. for some reason it failed. how do I install the gnu environment? or do you have any idea how to come accros this security restrictions? – millokeller Aug 03 '14 at 23:30
  • @HarishKumar How do i enable -shell-escape while compiling? – millokeller Aug 03 '14 at 23:31
  • @HarishKumar Yes, I am using Texmaker 4.2. Could you post I line of code I can include into the mwe? – millokeller Aug 03 '14 at 23:38
  • @HarishKumar I added a print screen of how I added the --enable-write18 command. I tried like variations like -enable-write18, -shell-escape and --shell-escape. nothing worked so far. – millokeller Aug 03 '14 at 23:48
  • You gave to use PDFLaTeX from drop down menu, not Quickbuild. and leave a space after --enable-write18. –  Aug 03 '14 at 23:59
  • Where is the difference, if Quickbuild is set to PdfLaTeX + Bib(la)tex + PdfLaTeX (x2) + View Pdf? Anyway, using PdfLaTeX from the drop down menu does not work either. Any other suggestions? – millokeller Aug 04 '14 at 00:05
  • @millo Did you pass the option miktex to gnuplottex? This changes the executed commands that work on Linux/Mac to Windows specific syntax. – John Aug 04 '14 at 15:46
  • @John If I pass the option miktex with the command \usepackage[miktex]{gnuplottex}, the rm and touch commands do not seem the problem anymore. But there is still something going wrong. The log file includes the lines: `Opening gnuplot stream gnuplot-gnuplottex-fig1.gnuplot runsystem(gnuplot gnuplot-gnuplottex-fig1.gnuplot)...executed.

    Package gnuplottex Warning: Conversion of gnuplot-gnuplottex-fig1.gnuplot failed.

    Package gnuplottex Warning: Please convert gnuplot-gnuplottex-fig1.gnuplot manually.` Is this an improvement or a step backwards?

     – millokeller Aug 04 '14 at 17:35
  • @millo Forward. Can you please send me an email containing the relevant tex-file and your log-file? I am the co-author of gnuplottex (second email adress mentioned in http://ctan.space-pro.be/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/gnuplottex/gnuplottex.pdf ) – John Aug 04 '14 at 20:37
  • @John The email is sent. Please let me know if you did not get it. Thank you for your help. – millokeller Aug 04 '14 at 23:46

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The problem has been solved by using \usepackage[miktex]{gnuplottex} and by deactivating the Use a "build" subdirectory for output files option by Texmaker

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