comaniac/latex-proj-tool

A toolset to traverse and manipulate a Latex project with multiple .tex files.

Latex Project Managment Tool

A toolset to traverse and manipulate a Latex project with multiple .tex files. Here are the currently supported functionalities. You are welcome to contribute more features :)

Project flatten

Flatten a Latex project to a single .tex file. This is useful if you want to use latexdiff or other Latex tools that require a single .tex file.

This is mainly inspired by this post: http://dropbearcode.blogspot.com/2011/09/multiple-file-latex-diff.html

Usage with latexdiff

1. Make sure you have Perl 5.8+ in your environment.
2. Download latexdiff from https://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/latexdiff
3. unzip latexdiff
4. python3 -m latex_proj_tool flat old_project/main.tex --output old.tex
5. python3 -m latex_proj_tool flat new_project/main.tex --output new.tex
6. latexdiff old.tex new.tex > tmp.tex
7. sed 's/^M//' tmp.tex > diff.tex
8. Compile diff.tex to get the PDF.

List Unused Files

List all unused files to help you clean the project.

Usage

List all unused files in this project:

python3 -m latex_proj_tool find_unused my_project/main.tex

List all unused files in this project, excluding some files:

python3 -m latex_proj_tool find_unused my_project/main.tex --exclude-extensions cls,sty,bst

List all unused files in this project, excluding some directories:

python3 -m latex_proj_tool find_unused my_project/main.tex --exclude-dirs backup