TEXcellent

An excellent CLI for managing LaTeX projects

Installation

curl -fsSL "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/itsisak/texcellent/main/install.sh" | zsh

The above is recommended but you can also manually clone this repo and add the follwing to your .zshrc

export TEXCELLENT_DIR="$HOME/texcellent"
alias tx="$TEXCELLENT_DIR/texcellent.sh"

And run chmod +x texcellent.sh if it is not excecutable

PS: Remember to update the path to TEXCELLENT_DIR

Usage

Can also be found by running tx -h.

Options

Short	Long	Description
-h	--help	Shows this usage guide
-o	--open	Opens file in vim. Works with command new and output.
-f	--file	Sets file flag. Works with command new to create a new file or list to only list file template
-p	--project	Sets project flag. Works with command new to create a new project or list to only list project templates.

Commands

Short	Long	ARGS	Description
h	help	None	Shows this usage guide
c	count	<file_path/prohect_path>	Count words in file or project.
l	list	None	List templates. If -f is set it only lists file templates. If -p is set it only lists project templates.
o	output	<output_file>	Remove LaTeX from file/project and output pure text to <output_file>. Default out.txt.
n	new	<new_file_name/new_project_name>	Create a new file/project from template. Default behaviour is creating a file with basic template. Set -p flag to create project.