General ⇒ LaTeX formatter like HTML Tidy?

[Myaban]

Is there a program that can bring messy (but correct) LaTeX code in a more readable form? I have some huge formulas that could use a standartized spacing, extra spaces before and after braces etc.

[markpace]

I would also be interested in such a tool...

Any help?

[hrothberht]

I did some googling and there seem to be two options to pretty print/tidy/beautify LaTeX code:

• TextMate seems to have this functionality, but TextMate is only for Mac OS X
• There is a Perl script made by Eric Hsu here, though as he himself says: it's simple and naive.
  
  Running the Perl script requires an installation of Perl (obviously) and can be run in Windows via console by typing

  Code: Select all

  type inputfile.tex|perl LaTeXTidy-0.31.pl>outputfile.tex

Apart from these two, I haven't been able to find anything. I was a bit surprised to find such meagre results.

[mikesol]

I'm also interested in something like this, especially if it's Linux compatible.

[leetcat]

Excuse the resurrection of an old thread. But I just created an online tool to format LaTeX code like HTML Tidy. I have not yet implemented personal preference of tab vs space. But It does most basic formatting.

http://c.albert-thompson.com/latex-pretty/