draftcheck

draftcheck is an LaTeX linter that is specifically designed for academic writing.

Installation

draftcheck can be installed using pip:

pip install draftcheck

You can also install it from source:

mkdir draftcheck && cd draftcheck
git clone https://github.com/ebnn/draftcheck.git
python setup.py install

Usage

The supplied files contains several example LaTeX files that can be used to test it.

$ draftcheck examples/simple.tex
examples/simple.tex:26:1: (http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/andyr/misc/latex/\-latextut...
                           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
	[030] Wrap URLs with the \url command.

examples/simple.tex:31:37: ...thin \LaTeX\cite{lamport94}...
                                        ^^^^^^^
	[004] Place a single, non-breaking space '~' before citations.

examples/simple.tex:49:10: ...%Set up an 'itemize' environmen...
                                        ^^^^^^^^^^^
	[014] Use left and right quotation marks ` and ' rather than '.

examples/simple.tex:93:0: \begin{center}
                          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
	[015] Use \centering instead of \begin{center}.

examples/simple.tex:123:29: ...the number '9'. This is b...
                                         ^^^^^
	[014] Use left and right quotation marks ` and ' rather than '.


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