Is it possible and if so how can you pass flags to the ShareLaTeX compiler which one would have passed as parameters to the LaTeX compiler?
I am using the minted package and need to pass the -shell-escape flag.
[Tex/LaTex] ShareLaTeX compilation flags
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The ShareLaTeX wiki says:
ShareLaTeX does not currently support Glossaries, this is planned to change in the near future.
Until this change happens, you can't generate glossaries in ShareLaTeX using an external indexing application. You can, however, use TeX to perform the sorting and collating without having to invoke an external indexing application. This can be done using datagidx. Example:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{datagidx}
\newgidx{glossary}{Glossary}
\DTLgidxSetDefaultDB{glossary}
\newterm[description={a collection of objects}]{set}
\newterm[description={number of objects in a set}]{cardinality}
\begin{document}
% page 1:
\gls{set}.
\newpage
% page 2:
\gls{set}, \gls{cardinality}.
\newpage
% page 3:
\gls{set}.
\newpage
% page 4:
\gls{cardinality}.
\printterms[columns=1,style=align]
\end{document}
Glossary appears as:
Since the sorting and collating is performed by TeX, there is no need to worry about shell escapes and so can be used in documents on ShareLaTeX.
Further reading:
Edit:
You can now also use TeX to perform the sorting and collating with the glossaries package:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{glossaries}
\makenoidxglossaries
\title{EjGlos}
\newglossaryentry{bitcoin}
{
name=Bitcoin,
description={a peer-to-peer payment system and digital
currency introduced as open source software in 2009 by pseudonymous
developer Satoshi Nakamoto. It is a cryptocurrency, so-called
because it uses cryptography to control the creation and transfer of
money}
}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
\section{How does Bitcoin work?}
From a user perspective, \gls{bitcoin} is nothing more than a mobile
app or computer program that provides a personal Bitcoin wallet and
allows a user to send and receive bitcoins with them. This is how
Bitcoin works for most users.
\printnoidxglossaries
\end{document}
This requires at least version 4.04 of glossaries. (This is the "Option 1" described in introduction section of the glossaries user guide.)
Fast solution for ShareLaTeX: upload the font file(s) into the project and use the
fontspecpackage withExternalLocationparameter in thexelatexengine.
My best guess is that there is no solution for ShareLaTeX/WriteLaTeX at the moment. As far as I know, there is no font in TeX distribution supporting Tamil. There is/was support for Omega, see tamil-omega, but you cannot run it. Even an example in itrans-xetex uses the JanaTamil font which must be installed somehow. There is a great support for Indic fonts in T1 encoding created by Karel Píška, but you cannot install it on those servers by yourself.
There are fonts on the Internet, but you need to grab, install and use them, see a list of them. If you are a Microsoft Windows user, use Arial Unicode MS, if you are a Linux user, install ttf-indic-fonts package (8 fonts). If nothing from these options is working for you on your local computer, use the Code2000 font as a starting point.
The only solution I see is to upload font file to the server's project (in the same way as uploading pictures) and use ExternalLocation from the fontspec package (untested). Uploading files is possible in TeXonWeb project, http://tex.mendelu.cz/en/. It is similar project to the ShareLaTeX.
Edit 1: I am uploading TAMu_Kadampari.ttf file from Linux distribution (ttf-indic-fonts) as my testing font sample. I haven't found solution in ShareLaTeX (I am not able to switch to xelatex/lualatex from pdflatex, so installing a font is almost impossible there, but uploading files is possible - I wrote an email to the maintainers if they could improve it), but after registration this approach works in WriteLaTeX, http://www.writelatex.com/, and TeXonWeb, http://tex.mendelu.cz/en/. I enclose several screenshots, the first picture is taken from ShareLaTeX (not working), the second picture is taken from WriteLaTeX (working) and the last one is from TeXonWeb project (it is working in Czech version, in English version we cannot switch the engine to xelatex right now - I have notified the author of this project).
Edit 2: It is working in ShareLaTeX as well. We need to switch to the project settings in the left tool bar, return to code and recompile the document. I illustrate it with two screenshots.
Screenshots from Edit 1:
Solution for local computer:
On a local computer this task is rather easy as already mentioned by David Carlisle. Use polyglossia and run the xelatex engine. I enclose my example and a preview of it.
%! xelatex mal-tamil.tex
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\setmainlanguage{tamil}
\setotherlanguage{english}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\newfontfamily\tamilfont[Script=Tamil,Scale=1.4]{TAMu_Kadampari.ttf}
% http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Tamil.html
% Linux (ttf-indic-fonts):
% TAMu_Kadampari.ttf
% TAMu_Kalyani.ttf
% TAMu_Maduram.ttf
% TSCu_Comic.ttf
% TSCu_Paranar.ttf
% TSCu_paranarb.ttf
% TSCu_paranari.ttf
% TSCu_Times.ttf
% Microsoft Windows: Arial Unicode MS
% After download: Code2000
% http://web.archive.org/web/20101122142710/http://code2000.net/code2000_page.htm
\begin{document}
\selectlanguage{english}
\title{Tirukkural}
\date{April 14, 2014}
\maketitle
\thispagestyle{empty}
\selectlanguage{tamil}
அகர முதல எழுத்தெல்லாம் ஆதி
பகவன் முதற்றே உலகு
\end{document}
Best Answer
ShareLaTeX announced in their newsletter from January 28th 2014, that their compiler now supports the minted package