Future plans

In a somewhat prioritized sequence, this is what I'd like to put into the program — if I have the time.

• Support for regular expressions as user patterns. Have the code, just have to interface to it.

• Differentiate whether strings in the resource file should be checked case-sensitively or case-insensitively; we do now only do a dumb enforcement of what seems most practical for each keyword.

• Clean up the italic checking; it doesn't nest braces (in fact, that's why it magically works with L^ATEX2 ...).

• Probably some more warnings/errors; just have to think them out first. Suggestions are appreciated — I've ``stolen'' most that lacheck provides, and am running out of ideas, really.

• Fix a few more bugs. :-)

• Put some garbage collecting into the thing. We're buffering almost one half of the lines in the file for the life of the program. 99% of these can be expunged much earlier. However, if you're dealing with so large files that you get out-of-mem errors, please consider splitting and using \input instead.

  Besides; if ChkTEX runs out of memory when processing your files, L^ATEX will indeed do the same!

• Rewrite the thing in Perl? Get regexp's for free, at least. I have received positive reactions on this; however I feel that Perl hasn't the structural support C gives the programmer (I'm especially thinking of struct's now, which simply doesn't feel the same when realized as an associative array).