lacheck (1) Linux Manual Page

NAME

lacheck – A consistency checker for LaTeX documents.

SYNOPSIS

lacheck filename [ .tex ]

DESCRIPTION

LaCheck is a general purpose consistency checker for LaTeX documents. It reads a LaTeX document and displays warning messages, if it finds bad sequences. It should be noted, that the badness is very subjective. LaCheck is designed to help find common mistakes in LaTeX documents, especially those made by beginners.

The things checked are:

Mismatched groups (braces), environments and math mode delimiters. When a mismatch is found, line numbers for both start and end of the mismatch is given. The error messages comes in pairs, one for the end match and one for the beginning, marked with `<-‘ and `->’ respectively.

Bad spacing including missing a `\ ‘ after an abbreviation, missing an `\@’ before a punctuation mark in a paragraph that is ended by an capital letter, double spaces like ` ~’, bad usage of ellipsis (like using … instead of \ldots, or using \ldots where