diff --git a/make-includes/build_lecture_rules.make b/make-includes/build_lecture_rules.make
index ea9803c..600ac43 100644
--- a/make-includes/build_lecture_rules.make
+++ b/make-includes/build_lecture_rules.make
@@ -95,6 +95,16 @@
 
 ################################################################################
 #
+# Default LaTeX command-line options.
+#   * -shell-escape for use with minted (and other things)
+#   * others to aid debugging
+# 
+#
+LATEX_FLAGS+=-shell-escape -interaction=nonstopmode -halt-on-error -file-line-error
+
+
+################################################################################
+#
 # Alternate LaTeXs for Unicode vs. non-Unicode processing.
 #
 ifdef UNICODE