Contexts

This piece of software consists of a

• an ant task and
• a maven plugin

with a common source core.

Input and Output

Supports

• many output formats like PDF, DVI, HTML, DOCX, RTF, TXT and others
• document classes including book, article, leaflet, scrlttr2 and beamer; for the latter also beamerarticle
• many graphical input formats like PNG, MP, FIG, gnuplot and provides a separate goal creating them, grp
• bibliography, index/indices, glossary/glossaries and embedded code

Checks

Checks

• sources with chktex and logs the result in target and goal chk
• versions of used tools
• log files detecting errors and warnings
• Check of return codes
• further excessive logging of warnings and errors
• whether a document could have been reproduced, by demand

Orchestration and Document Development

Orchestrates various tools, detecting need for execution e.g. of bibtex including rerunfilecheck for lualatex and friends.

Supports document development.

• Provides goals grp to create graphic files and clr for cleaning up.
• Cooperates by cooperating with editor, viewer and with other tools in the build chain.
  • Offers installation script for extensions of VS Code.
  • Offers configuration file .chktexrc for chktex.
  • Can create configuration file .latexmkrc for latexmk synchronized with the configuration.
  • Offers a common header file header.tex to unify mainly packages loaded by latex main files.
  • Offers a common header file headerSuppressMetaPDF.tex to keep up security, i.e. privacy quite independent of the tool chain.