diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 0e72012c..b2cc8c2c 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+[[package]]
+name = "ansi_term"
+version = "0.11.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+dependencies = [
+ "winapi 0.3.7 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "arrayvec"
 version = "0.4.10"
@@ -6,6 +14,16 @@ dependencies = [
  "nodrop 0.1.13 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "atty"
+version = "0.2.11"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+dependencies = [
+ "libc 0.2.51 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
+ "termion 1.5.1 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
+ "winapi 0.3.7 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "autocfg"
 version = "0.1.2"
@@ -72,6 +90,20 @@ dependencies = [
  "time 0.1.42 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "clap"
+version = "2.33.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+dependencies = [
+ "ansi_term 0.11.0 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
+ "atty 0.2.11 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
+ "bitflags 1.0.4 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
+ "strsim 0.8.0 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
+ "textwrap 0.11.0 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
+ "unicode-width 0.1.5 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
+ "vec_map 0.8.1 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "cloudabi"
 version = "0.0.3"
@@ -541,6 +573,14 @@ name = "redox_syscall"
 version = "0.1.54"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "redox_termios"
+version = "0.1.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+dependencies = [
+ "redox_syscall 0.1.54 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "rustc-demangle"
 version = "0.1.14"
@@ -628,6 +668,11 @@ dependencies = [
  "thread_local 0.3.6 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "strsim"
+version = "0.8.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "syn"
 version = "0.15.31"
@@ -657,11 +702,22 @@ dependencies = [
  "wincolor 0.1.6 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "termion"
+version = "1.5.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+dependencies = [
+ "libc 0.2.51 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
+ "redox_syscall 0.1.54 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
+ "redox_termios 0.1.1 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "texlab"
 version = "0.1.0"
 dependencies = [
  "bytes 0.4.12 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
+ "clap 2.33.0 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
  "futures 0.1.26 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
  "jsonrpc-core 11.0.0 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
  "jsonrpc-core-client 11.0.0 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
@@ -675,6 +731,14 @@ dependencies = [
  "tokio-stdin-stdout 0.1.5 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "textwrap"
+version = "0.11.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+dependencies = [
+ "unicode-width 0.1.5 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "thread_local"
 version = "0.3.6"
@@ -896,6 +960,11 @@ dependencies = [
  "smallvec 0.6.9 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "unicode-width"
+version = "0.1.5"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "unicode-xid"
 version = "0.1.0"
@@ -920,6 +989,11 @@ dependencies = [
  "url 1.7.2 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "vec_map"
+version = "0.8.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "version_check"
 version = "0.1.5"
@@ -972,7 +1046,9 @@ dependencies = [
 ]
 
 [metadata]
+"checksum ansi_term 0.11.0 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "ee49baf6cb617b853aa8d93bf420db2383fab46d314482ca2803b40d5fde979b"
 "checksum arrayvec 0.4.10 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "92c7fb76bc8826a8b33b4ee5bb07a247a81e76764ab4d55e8f73e3a4d8808c71"
+"checksum atty 0.2.11 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "9a7d5b8723950951411ee34d271d99dddcc2035a16ab25310ea2c8cfd4369652"
 "checksum autocfg 0.1.2 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "a6d640bee2da49f60a4068a7fae53acde8982514ab7bae8b8cea9e88cbcfd799"
 "checksum backtrace 0.3.15 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "f106c02a3604afcdc0df5d36cc47b44b55917dbaf3d808f71c163a0ddba64637"
 "checksum backtrace-sys 0.1.28 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "797c830ac25ccc92a7f8a7b9862bde440715531514594a6154e3d4a54dd769b6"
@@ -982,6 +1058,7 @@ dependencies = [
 "checksum cc 1.0.35 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "5e5f3fee5eeb60324c2781f1e41286bdee933850fff9b3c672587fed5ec58c83"
 "checksum cfg-if 0.1.7 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "11d43355396e872eefb45ce6342e4374ed7bc2b3a502d1b28e36d6e23c05d1f4"
 "checksum chrono 0.4.6 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "45912881121cb26fad7c38c17ba7daa18764771836b34fab7d3fbd93ed633878"
+"checksum clap 2.33.0 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "5067f5bb2d80ef5d68b4c87db81601f0b75bca627bc2ef76b141d7b846a3c6d9"
 "checksum cloudabi 0.0.3 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "ddfc5b9aa5d4507acaf872de71051dfd0e309860e88966e1051e462a077aac4f"
 "checksum crossbeam-deque 0.7.1 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "b18cd2e169ad86297e6bc0ad9aa679aee9daa4f19e8163860faf7c164e4f5a71"
 "checksum crossbeam-epoch 0.7.1 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "04c9e3102cc2d69cd681412141b390abd55a362afc1540965dad0ad4d34280b4"
@@ -1037,6 +1114,7 @@ dependencies = [
 "checksum rand_xorshift 0.1.1 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "cbf7e9e623549b0e21f6e97cf8ecf247c1a8fd2e8a992ae265314300b2455d5c"
 "checksum rdrand 0.4.0 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "678054eb77286b51581ba43620cc911abf02758c91f93f479767aed0f90458b2"
 "checksum redox_syscall 0.1.54 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "12229c14a0f65c4f1cb046a3b52047cdd9da1f4b30f8a39c5063c8bae515e252"
+"checksum redox_termios 0.1.1 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "7e891cfe48e9100a70a3b6eb652fef28920c117d366339687bd5576160db0f76"
 "checksum rustc-demangle 0.1.14 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "ccc78bfd5acd7bf3e89cffcf899e5cb1a52d6fafa8dec2739ad70c9577a57288"
 "checksum rustc_version 0.2.3 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "138e3e0acb6c9fb258b19b67cb8abd63c00679d2851805ea151465464fe9030a"
 "checksum ryu 0.2.7 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "eb9e9b8cde282a9fe6a42dd4681319bfb63f121b8a8ee9439c6f4107e58a46f7"
@@ -1050,9 +1128,12 @@ dependencies = [
 "checksum smallvec 0.6.9 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "c4488ae950c49d403731982257768f48fada354a5203fe81f9bb6f43ca9002be"
 "checksum stable_deref_trait 1.1.1 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "dba1a27d3efae4351c8051072d619e3ade2820635c3958d826bfea39d59b54c8"
 "checksum stderrlog 0.4.1 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "61dc66b7ae72b65636dbf36326f9638fb3ba27871bb737a62e2c309b87d91b70"
+"checksum strsim 0.8.0 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "8ea5119cdb4c55b55d432abb513a0429384878c15dde60cc77b1c99de1a95a6a"
 "checksum syn 0.15.31 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "d2b4cfac95805274c6afdb12d8f770fa2d27c045953e7b630a81801953699a9a"
 "checksum synstructure 0.10.1 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "73687139bf99285483c96ac0add482c3776528beac1d97d444f6e91f203a2015"
 "checksum termcolor 0.3.6 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "adc4587ead41bf016f11af03e55a624c06568b5a19db4e90fde573d805074f83"
+"checksum termion 1.5.1 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "689a3bdfaab439fd92bc87df5c4c78417d3cbe537487274e9b0b2dce76e92096"
+"checksum textwrap 0.11.0 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "d326610f408c7a4eb6f51c37c330e496b08506c9457c9d34287ecc38809fb060"
 "checksum thread_local 0.3.6 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "c6b53e329000edc2b34dbe8545fd20e55a333362d0a321909685a19bd28c3f1b"
 "checksum time 0.1.42 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "db8dcfca086c1143c9270ac42a2bbd8a7ee477b78ac8e45b19abfb0cbede4b6f"
 "checksum tokio 0.1.18 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "65641e515a437b308ab131a82ce3042ff9795bef5d6c5a9be4eb24195c417fd9"
@@ -1072,9 +1153,11 @@ dependencies = [
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 "checksum unicode-bidi 0.3.4 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "49f2bd0c6468a8230e1db229cff8029217cf623c767ea5d60bfbd42729ea54d5"
 "checksum unicode-normalization 0.1.8 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "141339a08b982d942be2ca06ff8b076563cbe223d1befd5450716790d44e2426"
+"checksum unicode-width 0.1.5 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "882386231c45df4700b275c7ff55b6f3698780a650026380e72dabe76fa46526"
 "checksum unicode-xid 0.1.0 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "fc72304796d0818e357ead4e000d19c9c174ab23dc11093ac919054d20a6a7fc"
 "checksum url 1.7.2 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "dd4e7c0d531266369519a4aa4f399d748bd37043b00bde1e4ff1f60a120b355a"
 "checksum url_serde 0.2.0 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "74e7d099f1ee52f823d4bdd60c93c3602043c728f5db3b97bdb548467f7bddea"
+"checksum vec_map 0.8.1 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "05c78687fb1a80548ae3250346c3db86a80a7cdd77bda190189f2d0a0987c81a"
 "checksum version_check 0.1.5 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "914b1a6776c4c929a602fafd8bc742e06365d4bcbe48c30f9cca5824f70dc9dd"
 "checksum winapi 0.2.8 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "167dc9d6949a9b857f3451275e911c3f44255842c1f7a76f33c55103a909087a"
 "checksum winapi 0.3.7 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "f10e386af2b13e47c89e7236a7a14a086791a2b88ebad6df9bf42040195cf770"
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 1b2b65fd..1981de25 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "texlab"
+description = "LaTeX Language Server"
 version = "0.1.0"
 authors = [
     "Eric Förster <efoerster@users.noreply.github.com>", 
@@ -19,3 +20,4 @@ bytes = "0.4.12"
 nom = "4.2.3"
 log = "0.4.6"
 stderrlog = "0.4.1"
+clap = "2.33"
diff --git a/src/main.rs b/src/main.rs
index f332ca98..55434b1a 100644
--- a/src/main.rs
+++ b/src/main.rs
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ mod range;
 mod server;
 mod syntax;
 
+use clap::*;
 use lsp::server::ServerBuilder;
 use server::LatexLspServer;
 use stderrlog::*;
@@ -10,8 +11,26 @@ use tokio;
 use tokio_stdin_stdout;
 
 fn main() {
+    let matches = app_from_crate!()
+        .author("")
+        .arg(
+            Arg::with_name("verbosity")
+                .short("v")
+                .multiple(true)
+                .help("Increase message verbosity"),
+        )
+        .arg(
+            Arg::with_name("quiet")
+                .long("quiet")
+                .short("q")
+                .help("No output printed to stderr"),
+        )
+        .get_matches();
+
     stderrlog::new()
         .module(module_path!())
+        .verbosity(matches.occurrences_of("verbosity") as usize)
+        .quiet(matches.is_present("quiet"))
         .timestamp(stderrlog::Timestamp::Off)
         .init()
         .unwrap();