Use several prose linters for better text-quality

There are several prose linters available, which check your text and give some useful advices how to optimize your language style.

This project uses vale, which uses these linters and provides nice configuration options and extensions to make customizable for your needs:

Configuration

All you need is in vale.ini. There you can specify the files, which should be checked (e.g. all *.tex-files).

You can add additional rules to specify a common language throughout all publications. For example we use the spelling "D-BAS" and want it to be all the same in our publications. These configurations can be set in an own configuration file, which can be found styles/dbas/replacements.yml

Usage

You have to install vale (see .gitlab-ci.yml). Then given a file:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[parfill]{parskip}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}

\begin{document}

\section*{Part a}

This is is a sample text.

dialog based

dbas

She is foo.

\end{document}

Call vale from the command line:

vale .

produces the following output:

 master.tex
 9:6   warning  'is' is repeated!               write-good.Illusions 
 11:1  warning  Consider using 'dialog-based'   dbas.replacements    
                instead of 'dialog based'                            
 13:1  warning  Consider using 'D-BAS' instead  dbas.replacements    
                of 'dbas'                                            
 15:1  error    Avoid using 'She'               Joblint.Gendered     

✖ 1 error, 3 warnings and 0 suggestions in 1 file.