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Myaban · Post by **Myaban** » Fri May 23, 2008 1:24 pm

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.

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markpace · Post by **markpace** » Mon Mar 28, 2011 3:02 pm

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

Any help?

hrothberht · Post by **hrothberht** » Tue Aug 30, 2011 11:12 am

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
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```
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 · Post by **mikesol** » Wed Apr 10, 2013 2:34 pm

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

leetcat · Post by **leetcat** » Tue Oct 06, 2015 8:32 pm

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/

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