NAME

       chktex - finds typographic errors in LaTeX.

SYNOPSIS

       chktex  [-hiqrW]  [-v[0-...]] [-l <rcfile>] [-[wemn] <[1-42]|all>] [-d[0-...]] [-p <name>]
       [-o <outfile>] [-[btxgI][0|1]] file1 file2 ...

DESCRIPTION

       chktex finds typographic errors in LaTeX

OPTIONS

       Miscellaneous options:

       -h --help
              Print a help screen.

       -i --license
              Show distribution information.

       -l --localrc
              Read local .chktexrc formatted  file.

       -d --debug
              Debug information. Give it a number.

       -r --reset
              Reset settings to default.

       Muting warning messages:

       -w --warnon
              Makes msg # given a warning and turns it on.

       -e  --erroron
              Makes msg # given an error and turns it on.

       -m --msgon
              Makes msg # given a message and turns it on.

       -n --nowarn
              Mutes msg # given.

       -L --nolinesupp
              Do not allow per-line suppressions.  These are TeX comments of the form % chktex ##
              .

       Output control flags:

       -v --verbosity
              How errors are displayed.  Default 1, 0=Less, 2=Fancy, 3=lacheck.

       -V --pipeverb
              How errors are displayed when stdout != tty.  Defaults to the same as -v.

       -s --splitchar
              String used to split fields when doing -v0

       -o --output
              Redirect error report to a file.

       -q --quiet
              Shuts up about version information.

       -p --pseudoname
              Input file-name when reporting.

       -f --format
              Format to use for output

       Boolean switches (1 -> enables / 0 -> disables):

       -b --backup
              Backup output file.

       -x --wipeverb
              Ignore contents of `\verb' commands.

       -g --globalrc
              Read global .chktexrc file.

       -I --inputfiles
              Execute \input statements.

       -H --headererr
              Show errors found in front of \begin{document}

       -W --version
              Version information

       If  no  LaTeX  files  are  specified  on  the command line, we will read from stdin.   For
       explanation   of   warning/error   messages,   please   consult    the    main    document
       /usr/share/doc/chktex/ChkTeX.dvi.gz.

DISTRIBUTION

       Copyright (C) 1996 Jens T. Berger Thielemann

       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of
       the GNU General Public License as  published  by  the  Free  Software  Foundation;  either
       version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

       This  program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY;
       without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR  PURPOSE.
       See the GNU General Public License for more details.

       You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program;
       if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite  330,  Boston,
       MA  02111-1307  USA

ENVIRONMENT

       No environment variables are used.

FILES

       None.

AUTHOR

       Jens T. Berger Thielemann, <jensthi@ifi.uio.no>

       This  manual  page  was  cobbled together by Clint Adams <schizo@debian.org>, based on the
       output of "chktex --help" and deweb(1).

SEE ALSO

       deweb(1), chkweb(1)