[OS X TeX] Finding duplicate labels - a perl script

Joachim Kock jkock at gmx.com
Tue Jun 25 16:26:30 EDT 2013


> Anyone who has written a very long math document has probably
> encountered the problem of accidentally creating duplicate labels.
> Right now I have 352 labels, and I have run into this problem several
> times. I stumbled on a way of detecting exactly which labels have
> duplicates here:
>
> http://www.mawode.com/blog/blog/2012/03/21/finding-duplicate-latex-labels/
>
>  It involves running this perl script in the terminal:

...

AlphaX does this automatically as part of its error browsing:
multiply defined labels are listed along with errors and
warnings (together with line numbers, although the log file
does not provide these), and pressing return takes you there.

Joachim.



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