TeXact

TeXact is a tool for finding miscellaneous mistakes in LaTeX code and article writing. It does not edit your files, so you can run it fearlessly. It is also not intended to replace existing tools, such as ChkTeX and lacheck, but rather to complement and incorporate them.

Documentation

https://theodor-lindberg.github.io/TeXact/

Features

• Check consistency between "\ref" and "\label".
• Make sure certain words have correct casing.
• Warn if the abstract begins with "In this work" or similar.
• Avoid certain modal verbs, such as should, would, could, and might.
• Run ChkTeX, if installed, with "appropriate" settings.
• And more...

Quickstart

TeXact can be installed using pip directly from git:

python -m pip install "git+ssh://git@github.com/Theodor-Lindberg/TeXact.git"

then run as

texact path/to/file.tex

For more information, run

texact -h