DHOSEK@HMCVAX.CLAREMONT.EDU (Don Hosek--ymir archive) (05/31/91)
I've just uploaded
ymir.claremont.edu:[anonymous.tex.utilities.lacheck]lacheck1_9.shar
This file was obtained by anonymous FTP from iesd.auc.dk on
30-May-1991.
The following is from the man page:
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.
The things checked are:
Mismatched groups (braces), environments and math mode del-
imiters. 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 begin-
ning, marked with `<-' and `->' respectively.
Bad spacing. This is: 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 \cdots should be used)
lacheck will read files that are input using \input or
\include. Files with suffix `.sty' are omitted, as they
probably will cause errors.
-dh
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