arara with indent.yaml works in command line but not in TeXmaker

Question

I am running Windows 7 and a recent (Dec 2014) distribution of TeX Live and a recent version of TeXmaker.

When invoking arara myFile.tex in the command line it returns "indent SUCCESS" and when opening myFile.tex it is indeed beautified/correctly indented.

However when setting up a macro in TeXmaker (via Users->Commands->User-defined "arara %.tex") TeXmaker returns:

Process started

Process exited normally

However the code is not beautified. Closing and opening the file does not help.

Do you have any ideas on how to make this work?

PS a minimal working example (working from command line - but not via TeXmaker) is:

% arara: indent
% arara: indent: {overwrite: yes}

\documentclass[10pt]{article}
\begin{document}
\begin{enumerate}
        \item a
    \item b
\end{enumerate}
\end{document}

PPS indent.log file output (when invoking via TeXmaker)

Thu Dec 11 15:41:00 2014

latexindent.pl version 2.0R, a script to indent .tex files

latexindent.pl lives here: C:/texlive/2014/bin/win32/

>

Directory for backup files and indent.log: .

file: tikpkzTEST.tex Reading defaultSettings.yaml from C:/texlive/2014/bin/win32/defaultSettings.yaml

Home directory is C:/Users/Björn To specify user settings you would put indentconfig.yaml here: C:/Users/Björn/indentconfig.yaml

Backup procedure: (...various backups...) Overwriting file: tikpkzTEST.tex

Line Count of tikpkzTEST.tex: 10 Line Count of indented tikpkzTEST.tex: 10

Line counts of original file and indented file match

PPPS arara.log file

11 Dec 2014 18:50:09.524 INFO Arara - Welcome to arara!

11 Dec 2014 18:50:09.524 INFO Arara - Processing file 'tikpkzTEST.tex', please wait.

11 Dec 2014 18:50:09.524 INFO DirectiveExtractor - Reading directives from

tikpkzTEST.tex.

11 Dec 2014 18:50:09.524 TRACE DirectiveExtractor - Directive found in line 1 with indent.

11 Dec 2014 18:50:09.524 TRACE DirectiveExtractor - Directive found in line 2 with indent: {overwrite: yes}.

11 Dec 2014 18:50:09.584 INFO DirectiveParser - Parsing directives.

11 Dec 2014 18:50:09.584 INFO TaskDeployer - Deploying tasks into commands.

11 Dec 2014 18:50:09.584 TRACE TaskDeployer - Task 'indent' found in >'C:\texlive\2014\texmf-dist\scripts\arara\rules'.

11 Dec 2014 18:50:09.728 TRACE TaskDeployer - Task 'indent' found in 'C:\texlive\2014\texmf-dist\scripts\arara\rules'.

11 Dec 2014 18:50:09.738 INFO CommandTrigger - Ready to run commands.

11 Dec 2014 18:50:09.738 INFO CommandTrigger - Running 'Indent'.

11 Dec 2014 18:50:09.738 TRACE CommandTrigger - Command: cmd /c latexindent.exe "tikpkzTEST.tex"

11 Dec 2014 18:50:10.048 TRACE CommandTrigger - Output logging:

11 Dec 2014 18:50:10.048 TRACE CommandTrigger - % arara: indent

% arara: indent: {overwrite: yes}

\documentclass[10pt]{article} \begin{document} \begin{enumerate} \item a \item b \item c \end{enumerate} \end{document} 11 Dec 2014 18:50:10.048 INFO CommandTrigger - 'Indent' was successfully executed. 11 Dec 2014 18:50:10.048 INFO CommandTrigger - Running 'Indent'. 11 Dec 2014 18:50:10.048 TRACE CommandTrigger - Command: cmd /c latexindent.exe -w >"tikpkzTEST.tex" 11 Dec 2014 18:50:10.348 TRACE CommandTrigger - Output logging: 11 Dec 2014 18:50:10.348 TRACE CommandTrigger - % arara: indent % arara: indent: {overwrite: yes}

\documentclass[10pt]{article}

\begin{document}

\begin{enumerate}

\item a

\item b

\item c

\end{enumerate}

\end{document}

11 Dec 2014 18:50:10.348 INFO CommandTrigger - 'Indent' was successfully executed.

11 Dec 2014 18:50:10.348 INFO CommandTrigger - All commands were successfully executed.

11 Dec 2014 18:50:10.348 INFO Arara - Done.

Answer 1

@texenthusiast has found a workaround for the problem:

In TeXmaker File menu press Reload Document from file to see updated the current file with indented contents.

So basicly you can set up arara/the command-line-version of latexindent to indent the code via TeXmaker:

(*) (Users->Commands->User-defined "arara %.tex" or "texmaker.exe" -w %.tex) or alternatively via (Options->quickbuild->...)

A minor inconvenience remains however: You will have to invoke latex-indent via ALT+SHIFT+F1 (as set up in (*)) and then you will additionaly have to choose "reload document" from the file menu. This should be good enough for most users.