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Re:Online LaTex editor by yannis on Friday September 06, 2013 @06:46AM (#6339652)
The only concern is to disable \write18 which is the TeX primitive command for access to the OS. This is easily disabled in a make up file or by recompiling the .exe pdflatex or similar. Really this is not a concern. The major issue with online editors is slow compilation.
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Re:Online LaTex editor by jimhefferon on Friday September 06, 2013 @10:03AM (#6340452)
> This is easily disabled in a make up file or by recompiling the .exe pdflatex or similar.

The executable just takes a command line flag. On a Linux system, man tex will give you information; see the shell-escape option (TeX Live and MacTeX disable it by default, I don't know what MiKTeX does).

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