From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/32299 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: \ifshellescape Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 09:22:48 +0100 Message-ID: <45922D58.3@wxs.nl> References: <6faad9f00612260535n7b044a6fq3f690cc16ec30fba@mail.gmail.com> <45919FEF.40602@wxs.nl> <6faad9f00612261508n1905303al3a86e4cafb3ae759@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: dough.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1167207793 1515 80.91.229.10 (27 Dec 2006 08:23:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 08:23:13 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Wed Dec 27 09:23:11 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by dough.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1GzU44-0003lY-BN for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 Dec 2006 09:23:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id E408F1FFE2; Wed, 27 Dec 2006 09:21:17 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 17882-02; Wed, 27 Dec 2006 09:21:10 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 511841FFB2; Wed, 27 Dec 2006 09:21:10 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13E641FFC0 for ; Wed, 27 Dec 2006 09:21:07 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 17985-05 for ; Wed, 27 Dec 2006 09:21:01 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from mail.pragma-ade.net (dsl-083-247-100-017.solcon.nl [83.247.100.17]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id 23DE51FE3E for ; Wed, 27 Dec 2006 09:20:59 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.101] (unverified [10.100.1.101]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.7b8) with ESMTP id 24919 for ; Wed, 27 Dec 2006 09:22:48 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Windows/20061207) Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <6faad9f00612261508n1905303al3a86e4cafb3ae759@mail.gmail.com> X-Server: High Performance Mail Server - http://surgemail.com r=-274017400 X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-1 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.7 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:32299 Archived-At: Mojca Miklavec wrote: > On 12/26/06, Hans Hagen wrote: > >> core-job.tex:\ifx\pdfshellescape\undefined \else >> core-job.tex: \chardef\systemcommandmode \ifcase\pdfshellescape >> \plusone \else \plustwo \fi >> >> so \systemcommandmode is your friend >> > > What exactly is the advantage of using \pdfshellescape over \ifeof18 > as the basis of \systemcommandmode? The second one works in XeTeX as > well while the first is only good for pdfTeX, but perhaps there are > other reasons for using it. > > write 18 is a hack and pdfshellescape a sane replacement in luatex it will probably be gone completely since there we have \directlua 0 { os.execute("...") } Hans