Closed emeth69 closed 9 months ago
gpoore
commented
10 months ago minted is intended for typesetting code, not running code. escapeinside allows small snippets of LaTeX code to be included within computer code that is otherwise typeset verbatim. It is not intended for \input{|...} or \write18.
I'd suggest saving the output of each of your \input{|...} or \write18 in a file, and then \inputminted those files individually.
emeth69
commented
10 months ago Unfortunately to write to a file doesn't work in my scenario. I'd like to keep the version of a REPL that I'm showing aligned with the version of the REPL installed. So most of the code will be the same but just few characters depends on where the document is compiled.
gpoore
commented
10 months ago What I'm suggesting is extending what you are doing in
\immediate\write18{ocamlc -version > /tmp/ocaml-version.txt}
\input /tmp/ocaml-version.txtto the other programs. That is, use \input{|...} or \write18 to run your external program, but then save/redirect the output into a file. Then \inputminted that file (if you really need some kind of minted formatting). This should get you current version info without running into incompatibilities with trying to run code within minted. For \input{|...}, you could probably use some shell scripting to wrap your version number with \mint or \mintinline like \mint{<lang>}{<version>} and skip the temp file altogether.
emeth69
commented
10 months ago Hi, this doesn't work but maybe I didn't got you hint correctly:
\documentclass[9pt,xcolor=svgnames]{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[scaled=.90]{beramono}
\usepackage{filecontents} % to overwrite generated files
\usepackage[cachedir=.\jobname-cache]{minted}
\setminted{fontfamily=tt,fontsize=\footnotesize,encoding=utf8,style=trac,escapeinside=``}
\begin{filecontents*}[overwrite]{/tmp/escapeinside-bug.txt}
`\immediate\write18{scalac -version > /tmp/ocaml-version.txt}
\input /tmp/ocaml-version.txt`
\end{filecontents*}
\begin{document}
\textcolor{red}{In Minted}
\inputminted{shell-session}{/tmp/escapeinside-bug.txt}%
\end{document}It compiles but it prints:
%%%% This is file `.tex',%% generated with the docstrip utility.%%%% The original source files were:%%%% fil...
even if the included files contains 4.12.0
Furthermore if I try to pipe the result of the command to grep some specific portions (as in | grep -o '[[:digit:]]*[.][[:digit:]]*[.][[:digit:]]*' ) I get:
! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [input stack size=10000].
\curr@fontshape ->\f@encoding
/\f@family /\f@series /\f@shape
l.2 ...*[.][[:digit:]]*'> /tmp/ocaml-version.txt}}
! ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!I did something wrong?
gpoore
commented
10 months ago That is still trying to mix minted with executable code.
Why not just use
\immediate\write18{scalac -version > /tmp/ocaml-version.txt}
\input /tmp/ocaml-version.txtor something similar directly? If you want a different font or text color, you can always add a \textcolor or texttt command around the inputed version.
emeth69
commented
10 months ago Because my MWE shows just the critical part of the what I'm passing to minted. In the real case I'm passing to minted a complete program (a REPL session transcript to be honest) where only a small portion is changed by my command. In my view to put the whole transcript in the post was too much but if you think it can help I can post it. Sorry for the confusion.
gpoore
commented
10 months ago I don't have any more suggestions for this. minted can't really emulate a REPL by mixing in \write18, so you'll have to find another way to do what you want.
emeth69
commented
9 months ago This message is just for those coming here with the same problem. I have solved it:
\documentclass[9pt,xcolor=svgnames]{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[scaled=.90]{beramono}
\usepackage{filecontents} % to overwrite generated files
\usepackage[cachedir=.\jobname-cache]{minted}
\setminted{fontfamily=tt,fontsize=\footnotesize,encoding=utf8,style=trac,escapeinside=``}
\begin{filecontents*}[overwrite]{/tmp/escapeinside-bug.txt}
`!/tmp/version.txt!`
\end{filecontents*}
\immediate\write18{scalac -version | grep -o '[[:digit:]]*[.][[:digit:]]*[.][[:digit:]]*'> /tmp/version.txt}
\begin{document}
\begingroup
\catcode`\!=\active
\def!#1!{\input #1}
\inputminted{shell-session}{/tmp/escapeinside-bug.txt}%
\endgroup
\end{document}There are few limitations in this solution, e.g., the file name can't contain a -, you have to enable pdflatex to write out of the current dir,... but this is a good starting point.
Dear Minted Experts, I'm trying to run some (linux) commands insides a minted piece of code without success.
This is a MWE
The MWE shows different ways to run linux commands both in plain LaTeX and through a minted piece of code.
When I compile it with:
openout_any=a pdflatex --enable-pipes --shell-escape MWE.texI get:All the approaches work perfectly when in normal LaTeX (in spite of the error message about --enable-pipes) but they fail when I escape from \inputminted. I have tried different escape characters without any lucky.
I'm using pygmentize 2.16.1, minted v2.7, pdfTeX 3.141592653-2.6-1.40.24 and kpathsea version 6.3.4.
Any help is appreciated.
Thank you