Latex files

[dg7692]

The tool is nice; an additional adjustment which can strip out latex commands - such as those starting a document - or at least disregard them from the sentence length, would be really helpful.

[MartinoMensio]

Thanks for the feedback Daniel! :)

Yeah, I wanted to add some latex cleaning inside this library and handle different file types (.tex, .docx, ...), but at the moment, the best approach is to use existing tools that extract only the text from this type of files. For example for latex files, I found out that detex does a pretty good job (comes with the standard installation of latex).

So what I tried is:

1. detex main.tex > main_detexed.txt so that the latex commands get removed, and the plain text is saved to the output file
2. formal-writing-checker "$(cat main_detexed.txt)" to run this library on the text only.

It's one step more, but this does the trick in many cases.

With the new version 0.0.4 you can also run this directly in a pipe without the need for an intermediate file:

detex main.tex | formal-writing-checker

Limitations:

• if you use if conditions in latex, they will be just ignored, and everything will be passed down the pipeline
• if you use the environment comment, its content will be still checked and not ignored
• latex tables will still be considered long sentences

Martino