TeXtidote is a command-line correction tool designed for LaTeX documents.
It strips away markup while preserving the relationship between the cleaned text and original source, allowing spelling and grammar issues detected by LanguageTool to be mapped back to their precise locations. It also performs LaTeX-specific sanity checks and supports Markdown documents.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Checks LaTeX documents for spelling, grammar and style issues.
- Uses LanguageTool for linguistic analysis.
- Maps detected problems back to their positions in the original LaTeX source.
- Performs LaTeX-specific sanity and formatting checks.
- Supports Markdown documents.
- Checks text in English, French, German, Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese and Polish.
- Supports user dictionaries for words which should be ignored.
- Can automatically use local Aspell dictionaries.
- Produces plain text, single-line and HTML reports.
- Can read documents from standard input.
- Lets users disable individual checking rules.
- Supports ignoring specified LaTeX environments and macros.
- Can follow files referenced with LaTeX input and include commands.
- Removes LaTeX markup to produce clean text suitable for external processing.
- Supports custom search and replacement rules before analysis.
Website: github.com/sylvainhalle/textidote
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Developer: Sylvain Hallé
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
TeXtidote is written in Java. Learn Java with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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