1ARARA(1) General Commands Manual ARARA(1)
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6 arara - a TeX automation tool based on rules and directives.
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9 arara [options] documents...
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12 arara is a TeX automation tool based on rules and directives. It gives
13 you a way to enhance your TeX experience. The tool is an effort to pro‐
14 vide a concise way to automate the daily TeX workflow for users and
15 also package writers. Users might write their own rules when the pro‐
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18 arara takes a list of documents as input. They will be processed ac‐
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23 --log Generate a log output.
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26 Print or suppress command output.
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28 --dry-run
29 Go through all the motions of running a command but with no ac‐
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33 Run in safe mode and disable potentially harmful features.
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36 Extract directives only in the file header.
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39 Set the file preamble as named based on the configuration file.
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45 Set the localization to the language specified by code.
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