#391 LuaTeX 0.95 (supplied with TeX Live 2016) and \write18

[herbs]

Howdy,

LuaTeX 0.95 which will come with TeX Live 2016 no longer allows \write18 to do shell escape; you must use a lua hook, os.exec. There is a shellesc.sty package that should have the information you need.

Good Luck,
Herb Schulz

[Julian Gilbey]

The pgfplots/util/pgfplotsutil.code.tex file shows how this can be handled. There are a handful of calls to \write18 through the rest of the code, which ought to be handled in the same way.

Best wishes,

Julian

[Stefan Pinnow]

For the record: I think this was added in commit https://sourceforge.net/p/pgfplots/code/ci/96a73adb33abc409b744baeac3546c0ee3383bb0/

[Stefan Pinnow]

See https://github.com/pgf-tikz/pgf/issues/390