diff --git a/services/clsi/app/js/CompileManager.js b/services/clsi/app/js/CompileManager.js
index dd62f435ed..614c49aaf7 100644
--- a/services/clsi/app/js/CompileManager.js
+++ b/services/clsi/app/js/CompileManager.js
@@ -142,6 +142,10 @@ module.exports = CompileManager = {
         )
       // set up environment variables for chktex
       const env = {}
+      if (Settings.texliveOpenoutAny && Settings.texliveOpenoutAny !== '') {
+        // override default texlive openout_any environment variable
+        env.openout_any = Settings.texliveOpenoutAny
+      }
       // only run chktex on LaTeX files (not knitr .Rtex files or any others)
       const isLaTeXFile =
         request.rootResourcePath != null
diff --git a/services/clsi/config/settings.defaults.js b/services/clsi/config/settings.defaults.js
index 51cb624862..3328afa92d 100644
--- a/services/clsi/config/settings.defaults.js
+++ b/services/clsi/config/settings.defaults.js
@@ -57,6 +57,7 @@ module.exports = {
   parallelSqlQueryLimit: process.env.FILESTORE_PARALLEL_SQL_QUERY_LIMIT || 1,
   filestoreDomainOveride: process.env.FILESTORE_DOMAIN_OVERRIDE,
   texliveImageNameOveride: process.env.TEX_LIVE_IMAGE_NAME_OVERRIDE,
+  texliveOpenoutAny: process.env.TEXLIVE_OPENOUT_ANY,
   sentry: {
     dsn: process.env.SENTRY_DSN
   }