Textools provides CLI commands for the most commonly used tasks when working with LaTeX,
e.g., generating a .gitignore file, creating the final pdf and validating the .tex and .bib files.
Requires JDK 7 with JAVA_HOME set to the JDK path!
$ git clone [email protected]:simonharrer/textools
$ cd textools
$ gradlew installApp
# add textools/build/install/textools/bin to PATH
# in your latex directory
$ textools pdf # create the pdf with pdflatex and bibtex using main.tex as the starting file
$ textools validate # validates all .tex and .bib files using Simon's validation rules
$ textools clean # remove all generated files like .div, .pdf, .log, ...
textools [command]
create-gitignore creates a latex project specific .gitignore file
clean Removes all generated files during a tex build
texlipse generates texlipse project files
texniccenter generates the texniccenter project files
validate executes validate-latex and validate-bibtex commands in sequence
validate-bibtex validates all .bib files for the existence of certain fields
validate-latex validates .tex files
minify-bibtex-optionals removes optional keys in bibtex entries
minify-bibtex-authors replace additional authors with et al. in bibtex entries
pdf creates pdf with pdflatex, including bibtex; logs to textools-pdf.log
pdfclean executes pdf and clean commands in sequence
version prints the current version
help prints usage information
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