arara (1) Linux Manual Page
arara – a TeX automation tool based on rules and directives.
Synopsis
arara [options] documents…Description
arara is a TeX automation tool based on rules and directives. It gives you a way to enhance your TeX experience. The tool is an effort to provide a concise way to automate the daily TeX workflow for users and also package writers. Users might write their own rules when the provided ones do not suffice. arara takes a list of documents as input. They will be processed according to their directives. Options apply to the execution of all documents.
Options
- –log
- Generate a log output.
- –verbose
- Print or suppress command output.
- –dry-run
- Go through all the motions of running a command but with no actual calls.
- –safe-run
- Run in safe mode and disable potentially harmful features.
- –header
- Extract directives only in the file header.
- –preamble
- Set the file preamble as named based on the configuration file.
- –timeout
- Sets an execution timeout for spawned processes.
- –language
- Set the localization to the language specified by code.
- –max-loops
- Set the number > 0 of loops for looping directives.
- –working-directory
- Set the working directory for the whole execution.
- –call-property
- Pass a property as key=value parameter into the application to be used within the session.
- –version
- Show the version and exit.
- –help
- Show a help message and exit.