On 7/3/20 1:46 PM, Philip Taylor wrote: > It would seem that adding the command-line qualifier "--shell-escape" is > required in order that \write 18 be permitted, but then we run into the > problem > that (with the benefit of hindsight) we should have foreseen at the outset : > the PDF file is incomplete at this point —
Do the opposite: call xetex --shell-escape "Hoi-An TA menu (combine pages).tex" and in that file have \immediate\write18{xetex "Hoi-An TA menu (separate pages).tex"} or similar.