This is a mirror of http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2187

The script allows to format a piece of latex text by splitting paragraphs according to latex keywords.

The main function, FormatLatexPar, formats the latex text to which the cursor belong, stopping above and below when a keyword is found, or when the vim paragraph ends. Then it moves at the end of the formatted section. If the current line is a comment, does the same thing, but searching for neighboring comments. The function is mapped to CTRL-j.

Note: have a look also at a similar scrip (http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2307).

Todolist: merge multiple empty line into one.

If you have better solutions, improvements or suggestions, email me!

Here is an example of text, and the resulting formatted text obtained by repeated calls of the function:

<EXAMPLE BEGIN>
This is an example of the latex formatting script: the paragraphs are
formatted
by taking into account special latex ending keywords, as any
\begin{something}
    or as,
    for example
\end{something}

Also
formulas
$$
    like this
    one
$$
are kept separated

Other separators are a line beginning
with
{
    as this one
}   
but others can be easily added

Also,
comments
% like this
% or this
% are merged

but not % if the comment is not at the beginning of the line
% as in this case.

�\begin{itemize}
    \item Some commands, as item, are delimiters,
    but one may want
    to format them with the text.
    \item These are treated differently
    in the script
\end{itemize}

You can easily suit this script to your needs
changing SingleLineLatexParEndings and
MultiLineLatexParEndings functions.
<EXAMPLE END>

is formatted, by subsequent calls, into

<FORMATTED EXAMPLE BEGIN>
This is an example of the latex formatting script: the paragraphs 
are formatted by taking into account special latex ending keywords,
as any
�\begin{something}
    or as, for example
\end{something}

Also formulas
$$
    like this one
$$  
are kept separated

Other separators are a line beginning with
{
    as this one
}   
but others can be easily added

Also, comments
% like this or this are merged

but not % if the comment is not at the beginning of the line
% as in this case.

\b�egin{itemize}
    \item Some commands, as item, are delimiters, but one may want
    to format them with the text.
    \item These are treated differently in the script
\end{itemize}

You can easily suit this script to your needs changing
SingleLineLatexParEndings and MultiLineLatexParEndings functions.
<FORMATTED EXAMPLE END>