chklref

Written by Jerome Lelong jerome.lelong@gmail.com and distributed under the terms of GNU GPLv3.

Installation

System wide installation

Installation into the TeX structure

This package follows the TDS[1]

• put the TeX package chklref.sty into $(texmf_prefix)/tex/latex/chklref
• put the documentation doc/chklref.pdf into $(texmf_prefix)/doc/latex/chklref
• put the man page doc/chklref.1 into $(texmf_prefix)/doc/man/man1
• put the Perl parser chklref.pl into $(texmf_prefix)/scripts/chklref

Note that you will also need to make a link or copy chklref.pl to a location in your PATH. On Unix systems, you may need to set the script as executable.

Depending on your OS and TeX distribution, the TEXMF directory texmf_prefix can have different values

• Single account installation under Linux ~/texmf.
• Single account installation under Mac OS X ~/texmf or $HOME/Library/texmf.
• System wide installation under Linux /usr/share/texmf-local/.
• System wide installation under Mac OS X /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/.
• Under Windows something like C:\localtexmf\. Check in your distribution settings.

You may need to run texhash to update your TeX Directory Structure.

The fastest way to carry out the installation is to use the file chklref.tds.zip included in the numbered releases (not available inside the git repository). You just have to unzip it inside the proper texmf_prefix. Alternatively, you can copy the files by hand. On Unix systems, you may need to set the script as executable.

Local installation

Instead of carrying out a system wide installation, you can simply copy the package file chklref.sty next to your main LaTeX file and put the Perl script chklref.pl next to it or in anywhere in your PATH. On Unix systems, you may need to set the script as executable.

Requirements

The chklref tool is mainly written in TeX with a small Perl script to parse the output generated by the TeX package. It should be working with any standard Perl installation.

The Perl script calls a LaTeX compiler to extract labels related information.

Usage

You typically just run: perl chklref.pl file.tex

The full calling syntax is perl chklref.pl [options] file.tex, where options can be

• --tex <compiler>, -t: Specify the TeX compiler to be used. Default is pdflatex.
• --tex-options: List of options to pass to the TeX compiler. It should be a quoted string of white space delimited options. Note that we always add -interaction nonstopmode on top of these options.
• --debug, -d: Run in debug mode. Do not clean the generated .chk file.
• --quiet, -q: Run in quiet mode. Do not print the output of the TeX compiler.
• --parse-only: Do not run the LaTeX compiler but use the already existing .chk file. When this option is passed, the following other options are meaningless: --tex, --tex-options, --quiet, --debug.
• --version, -v: Print the version of this script.
• --help,h: Print this help.

Alternatively, you can directly add \usepackage{chklref} to your main LaTeX file and compile it normally. This will create a file with extension .chk, which can then be parsed by the Perl script:

perl chklref.pl --parse-only file.tex

Note that you need to pass the \verb!.tex! file to the parser not the .chk file.

Bugs

Report bugs to https://github.com/jlelong/chklref.

chklref is known not to work with cleveref. If you would like to contribute to chklref, feel free to open a PR on https://github.com/jlelong/chklref.

[1] : TeX Directory Structure http://www.tug.org/twg/tds/