An extremely fast LaTeX formatter written in Rust.
| Input | Output |
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\begin{itemize}
\item Lists with items
over multiple lines
\end{itemize}
\begin{equation}
E = m c^2
\end{equation}
\end{document} |
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\begin{itemize}
\item Lists with items
over multiple lines
\end{itemize}
\begin{equation}
E = m c^2
\end{equation}
\end{document} |
- ⚡ Extremely fast run-time performance
- 🔧 No configuration necessary
- 📟 Command-line interface
- 📜 Handles LaTeX file types
.tex,.bib,.cls, and.sty - 🦀 Written entirely in safe Rust
# install stable release
cargo install tex-fmt
# install from github
cargo install --git "https://github.com/wgunderwood/tex-fmt"nix build "github:wgunderwood/tex-fmt"tex-fmt file.tex # format file.tex and overwrite
tex-fmt -c file.tex # check if file.tex is correctly formatted
tex-fmt -p file.tex # format file.tex and print to STDOUT
tex-fmt -h # view help informationWhen formatting all of the test cases, tex-fmt is hundreds of times faster than latexindent.
| Files | Lines | Size | tex-fmt | latexindent | latexindent -m |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 47 | 93k | 3.5M | 0.143s | 102.1s [x714] | 128.4s [x898] |
- Semantic parsing of LaTeX code not conducted
- No linting or correction of syntax errors
- Customization via configuration files not supported
- Compliance with existing formatting guidelines not guaranteed
- Editor integration not currently provided
- No spelling or grammar checking
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