HowTo SanityCheck

The sanity check is available via

http://www.langsci-press-gug.org/doc2tex/home and http://langsci-press.org/templatesAndTools

Authors should perform the sanity check on all of their latex files before submitting their revised version.

Each tex-file can be checked individually on the web service, or a GitHub repo with a LangSci ID can be given.

A standalone program is available from https://github.com/langsci/pypi/langsci/wrapperscripts

The following checks are performed:

• no et al. in tex-file
• no explicit fonts
• no explicit changes of font size
• Tables and Figures are correctly referenced
• Footnote do not have a preceding space
• no double parentheses when citing
• dash instead of hyphen for page ranges
• no ff
• en-dash with spaces rather than em-dash without
• no \hline; use \midrule
• Sentences in examples should be capitalized and have punctuation
• no ALLCAPS
• no special capitalization
• use spaces after punctuation

bibliography

The bibliography can be checked with the webservice as well. A standalone script is also available from https://github.com/langsci/pypi/langsci/wrapperscripts

The following things are checked:

• subtitles start with correct capitals
• full first names are given
• spaces after several initials
• not both author and editor present
• mandatory fields are given (author, title, year for all; publisher, address for books; journal, number, pages of articles)
• urls do not contains spaces
• no urls to commercial sites are given
• format of field "edition" is correct
• author field uses "and" rather than comma for multiple authors
• no fields to be printed have "???" in them.

Furthermore, the ordering of records is adjusted so as to make sure crossrefs can be resolved. The following fixes are also applied:

• dash for page ranges
• add booktitle for books with editors
• add sortname for authors or editors with diacritics
• the output can be restricted to the works actually cited in the *tex-files by setting restricted to True