Wish to help?

As most other living creatures, I have only a limited amount of time. If you like ChkTEX and would like to help improving it, here's a few things I would like to receive. Think of it as giftware — if you like it, you help improving it. The following ideas are given:

• Help me port the program! This is a prioritized one. It's no fun writing ANSI C when people haven't got a C compiler.

  Of course, I'll provide whatever help necessary to modify the sources to fit to the new platform. Take contact if you're interested. I will include your compiled binary in the distribution, and give you credit where appropiate.

• Reports on problems configuring and compiling ChkTEX on supported systems are welcomed.

• Information on the ``_doprnt'' function; prototypes and use. I've understood that not all systems support the ``vfprintf'' function (which ChkTEX uses a lot); however, some of them have a similar function (according to the Autoconf manual).

  I would like to receive any information on this; as I would like to create an interface towards that function.

• Filters for other file formats. I do believe that there are several formats using L^ATEX for its formatting purposes, combining that with something else. If you can write a program or script which filters everything away but the L^ATEX code, it will surely be appreciated (and included). Look at the deweb script to see what I mean.

• Arexx interfaces for other editors are also welcomed; these should be rather fast to write. They should to the following:
  1. Get the filename of the active file.
  2. If possible, save the file to disk if there has been any changes.
  3. Call the program `ChkTeX.rexx' with the filename as the only parameter.

• If somebody out there actually possesses (and uses) GoldED, it would be nice if they checked whether the ARexx script included actually work. If not, please send me a fixed copy; perhaps also one which supports point 2 above, too. If it does work, then please tell me so, so I can remove this item.

  I don't have GoldEd in my possession; the script was just modelled after Juergen Zeschky's, (<juergen@sokrates.nbg.de>) PGP↔GoldED interface.

• If you have access to a dictionary listing abbreviations (not only English), I would appreciate an updated version of the ``chktexrc'' file with these filled in. In fact, if you update the ``chktexrc'' file in anyway that is not strictly local, I would appreciate to receive your updated version.

• Suggestions for new warnings are always welcomed. Both formal (i.e. regexps or similar) and non-formal (plain English) descriptions are welcomed.

Of course, people doing any of this will be mentioned in this document, and thus receive eternal glory and appreciation.