Latex-workshop: Passing arguments to the latex compiler

[Spirits-]

A particular latex package (minted: https://github.com/gpoore/minted ) requires that I pass the -shell -escape arguments when compiling a document, how do I do this in VS Code with Tex Workshop? I've tried fumbling with the toolchain but to no avail. I'd simply like to add the parameters to the %!TEX=xelatex command I already have. Is this possible?

[James-Yu]

Append the arguments to args. Each argument in one line.

[Spirits-]

I've tried to append it like this:
{ "command": "minted", "args": [ "-shell", "-escape", "-pdf", "%DOC%" ] }
This doesn't work. Each argument is one line, github is just formatting it into one.

[Spirits-]

Appending it to the default toolchain also does not work.

[Spirits-]

I've fixed it. You need to append "-shell-escape" instead of "-shell", "-escape" as it is one argument and not two.

[cliubf]

@Spirits- Hi, I'm wondering that where did you pass the argument to? I opened User Setting and found out these. Did you pass the argument { "command": "minted", "args": [ "-shell-escape", "-pdf", "%DOC%" ] } to each one compiler (latexmk, pdflatex, bibtex)?

"latex-workshop.latex.tools": [
        {
            "name": "latexmk",
            "command": "latexmk",
            "args": [
                "-synctex=1",
                "-interaction=nonstopmode",
                "-file-line-error",
                "-pdf",
                "%DOC%"
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "pdflatex",
            "command": "pdflatex",
            "args": [
                "-synctex=1",
                "-interaction=nonstopmode",
                "-file-line-error",
                "%DOC%"
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "bibtex",
            "command": "bibtex",
            "args": [
                "%DOCFILE%"
            ]
        }
    ]

[cliubf]

I have just figured out what to do, add the args as indicated below:

{
            "name": "latexmk",
            "command": "latexmk",
            "args": [
                "-synctex=1",
                "-interaction=nonstopmode",
                "-file-line-error",
                "-pdf",
                "--shell-escape",
                "%DOC%"
            ]
        }

Refer to issue #420