phystool 5.2.1

Exercise database manager for LaTeX files

Phystool

This package is there to help managing physics lecture notes, exercises, tests... It is based on four complementary elements:

1. phystool: Manages a database of LaTeX documents with additional metadata
2. physnoob: Provides some the of phystool's functionalities in a GUI
3. optional physvim or phystool.nvim: Implements vim commands to interact with phystool
4. optional phystex: LaTeX classes and packages that are compatible with phystool

Among other things, this package provides:

• a clean way to compile LaTeX documents without cluttering your directories
• a neat and user-friendly log LaTeX compilation messages
• an automatic LaTeX recompilation when/if required

Development tools

The following tools are used during development:

• uv: manages the python dependencies, build and publish new releases
• just: provides a set of commands
• direnv: automatically loads the .envrc when the directory is entered so that
  • the envrironment variables are set
  • the virtual envrironment is synchronized and activated