Program

Modifications to the executable itself:

• As usual, a few more warnings:
  • No space or similar in front/after parenthesis.
  • Demands a consistent quote style.
  • Double spaces in input which will not be rendered as one.
  • Punctuation malplaced regarding to math mode.
  • Warns about TEX primitives.
  • Space in front of footnotes.
  • Bogus \left and \right commands.

• The abbreviation recognizer has (for the last time?) been redesigned. We now produce far less false warnings, catch more cases and do all this faster than before. Seems like a win.

  Done much of the same with the italic correction detection part, too...

• Some bugs have been silently fixed. Hot spots in the program have been optimized; in certain cases this in fact doubles the speed!

  Along with this goes more code elegance and utilization of macro processing and the C language. Take a look at ``Resource.[ch]''.

• It's possible to specify separate output-formats depending on whether you are sending the output to a file/pipe or to a terminal.

• Column positions are finally correct; we now expand tabs correctly.
• ChkTeX will now recursively search for \input'ed files, both in the document and on the commandline. See the ``chktexrc'' file for more info.
• The debug switch is now more intelligent; if you wish to hack a bit on ChkTeX for yourself, it is possible to produce selective debugging output. The feature can also be disabled altogether.
• MS-DOS and OS/2 version of the program is now more flexible and well-behaved, thanks to Gerd Böhm.
• You may now say ``-wall'' to make all messages warnings, and turn them on.
• Uses termcap on UNIX boxes; this should ensure that ``-v2'' (or more precisely: ``%i'' and ``%I'') works regardless to what terminal you are using.