style-check mit Homebrew installieren

Projektlinks

• Homepage

Befehle und Aliase

• style-check.rb

Projektgeschichte

Neil Spring's official README presents style-check as a personal writing aid: when the author notices a mistake identifiable by a regular expression, he adds it to the ruleset and runs the checker over LaTeX-formatted papers.

The source file carries a 2004 copyright notice and describes the script as a quick check against verbose phrases, overused expressions, misspellings, and inconsistent capitalization or hyphenation, while explicitly saying it is not a substitute for a proofreader.

Adoptionsgeschichte

The input package facts list style-check as a Homebrew package only, which matches its character as a narrow academic-writing utility rather than a broad ecosystem tool.

Its package-manager presence is still useful because the executable and default rule locations make it easy to install into local writing or build workflows without copying a standalone Ruby script by hand.

Wie es verwendet wird

The checker reads rule files from /etc/style-check.d, ~/.style-check.d, ~/.style-censor, ./style-censor, and related historical paths, then scans TeX files for expressions annotated with justifications.

The script supports options for gedit-style output, verbosity, HTML output, and overriding rule paths, making it suitable for editor or document-build integration.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

style-check matters to package nerds as the kind of tiny, opinionated script that package managers preserve well: one executable, no service, text files for policy, and enough configurability to fit local workflows.

It also shows an older Unix style of linting prose with plain files and regular expressions, before modern grammar SaaS tools became common.

Zeitleiste

• 2004: The style-check.rb source carries a copyright notice for Neil Spring.
• 2010s: The official README describes rule-file based checking for LaTeX-formatted text.
• 2026: Input package facts list style-check as available through Homebrew.

Related projects

• LaTeX is the document format style-check is designed to scan.
• Editor and build integrations are natural companions because the tool reports line-oriented findings from source text.

Quellen

• https://github.com/nspring/style-check/blob/master/style-check.rb
• https://www.cs.umd.edu/~nspring/software/style-check-readme.html
• input.source_facts.package-manager