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LaCheck(1) Unix Programmer's Manual LaCheck(1)
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NAME
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lacheck - A consistency checker for LaTeX documents.
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SYNOPSIS
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lacheck filename [ .tex ]
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-------- ---
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DESCRIPTION
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lacheck is a general purpose consistency checker for LaTeX documents. It
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reads a LaTeX document and displays warning messages, if it finds bad
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sequences. It should be noted, that the badness is very subjective.
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The things checked are:
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Mismatched groups (braces), environments and math mode delimiters. When
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a mismatch is found, line numbers for both start and end of the mismatch
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is given. The error messages comes in pairs, one for the end match and
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one for the beginning, marked with `<-' and `->' respectively.
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Bad spacing. This is: missing a `\ ' after an abbreviation, missing an
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`\@' before a punctuation mark in a paragraph that is ended by an capital
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letter, double spaces like ` \~', bad usage of ellipsis (like using ...
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instead of \ldots, or using \ldots where \cdots should be used)
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lacheck will read files that are input using \input or \include. Files
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with suffix `.sty' are omitted, as they probably will cause errors.
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lacheck may be invoked from within Emacs(1) using compile:
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To run: M-x compile <ret> , and then C-x ` to parse the messages
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OUTPUT
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The output is UNIX-error like, and may be parsed using Emacs(1) compile
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mode. Here is a sample:
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lacheck compiler
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"/usr/mef/compiler.tex", line 34: missing `\\\\ ' after "etc."
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"/usr/mef/compiler.tex", line 179: double space at " ~"
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"/usr/mef/compiler.tex", line 186: <- unmatched "}"
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"/usr/mef/compiler.tex", line 181: -> unmatched "$$"
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A control space `\ ' should be inserted at line 34, to prevent an end-of-
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sentence space. Also, at line 179, the first space of the sequence " ~"
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should probably be deleted. The last two lines is an example, where the
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user mistyped, and probably inserted an extra "}" somewhere.
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DIAGNOSTICS
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Some special cases should be explained. In cases where a sentence ends
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with something that lacheck thinks is an abbreviation an missing `\ '
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error may also occur, if the following sentence begins with a capital
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letter.
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A mismatch error may cause more to follow, due to the chosen algorithm.
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In such cases just correct the first error and run lacheck again
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May 23, 1991 1
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LaCheck(1) Unix Programmer's Manual LaCheck(1)
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Braces, environments and math mode must be balanced within a file.
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SEE ALSO
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tex(1), Emacs(1), latex(1)
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BUGS
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Lots... Ideas for improvements and bug reports are very welcome. Such
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should be directed to the author.
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AUTHOR
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Kresten Krab Thorup, Email <krab@iesd.auc.dk>
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May 23, 1991 2
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