You can use the detex tool to strip LaTeX commands. If you do detex file.tex
, it will output to stdout. Then, you can use the diction tool to analyse your text, and suggest improvements. Putting it all together:
detex file.tex | diction -bs
This will strip the LaTeX, and pipe it into diction with suggestions and "beginner mistakes" enabled.
For Debian/Ubuntu:
sudo apt-get install diction texlive-extra-utils
This will install detex and diction, as well as several other useful tools.
Since you mentioned that you're using Emacs, there is also diction.el which provides diction integration with Emacs. You can do M-x diction-buffer
, and it will take care of detexing/dehtmling and show the diction results in a separate buffer. You can even hit enter on the individual results to be taken to approximately where the phrase is.
(If you do use diction.el, my version of detex didn't have the -C flag. I'm not sure of what it was meant to do, but if you search for 'detex -C' in the file, you can add other command line options if you want. Also, I recommend replacing 'diction -L' with 'diction -bsL')
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I use Grammarly and language tool together (They are complements). Just copy and past all of the latex content into them and correct the suggestion and bring back the text. It will work nicely without needing to connect the apps which usually is not working properly (in my case texstudio).