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Most options in <tt>texmf.cnf</tt> of modern TeX distributions are ok for ConTeXt (in former times you had to care for ConTeXt's huge memory needs yourself and occasionally set some additional paths). The one thing left:
ConTeXt likes TeX's "write18" function enabled to run [[Metapost]] and some other tools in the background.
That's a potential security risk (malicious TeX code could run any program with your user rights), so it's off (false) by default.
<pre>
shell_escape = t
</pre>
Most options in <tt>texmf.cnf</tt> of modern TeX distributions are ok for ConTeXt (in former times you had to care for ConTeXt's huge memory needs yourself and occasionally set some additional paths). The one thing left:
ConTeXt likes TeX's "write18" function enabled to run [[Metapost]] and some other tools in the background.
That's a potential security risk (malicious TeX code could run any program with your user rights), so it's off (false) by default.
<pre>
shell_escape = t
</pre>
