Martin Schroeder writes:
On 2003-07-10 15:49:50 +0200, Heiko Oberdiek wrote:
On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 02:57:25PM +0200, Martin Schroeder wrote:
On 2003-07-10 14:35:48 +0200, Martin Schröder wrote:
- New readonly primitive \pdfshellescape which can be used to test if the
Thinking further (and being reminded by Rolf): Is there a reason why this can _not_ be called \shellescape? It's got nothing to do with pdf (and would be usefull in all web2c-based TeX engines, no matter what they are called).
\write18 is a property of web2c-based TeX engines, so \shellescape is the better name and it would be even better, if this can be added to the other web2c-based TeX engines, too.
Same here. Olaf? Or does this belong to tex-implementors?
\shellescape sits in Knuth's namespace. This seems to have come up private mail as well, and there the suggestion was to use \ifeof18 instead. For various reasons I still haven't been able to spend time on TeX. :-( -- Olaf Weber (This space left blank for technical reasons.)