https://github.com/cburkert/textractor

Extracting build-essential files from a LaTeX project and zip them
https://github.com/cburkert/textractor

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Extracting build-essential files from a LaTeX project and zip them

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/cburkert/textractor
• Owner: cburkert
• License: mit
• Created: 2019-08-02T14:10:41.000Z (over 5 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2022-04-04T20:51:40.000Z (over 2 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-09-29T09:21:17.724Z (about 1 month ago)
• Topics: latex, zip
• Language: Python
• Size: 12.7 KB
• Stars: 2
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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[![Latest version on PyPI](https://img.shields.io/pypi/v/latextractor.svg)](https://pypi.org/project/latextractor/)

# La TeXtractor – Get your LaTeX zipped up!

Do you find yourself sometimes in need of a neat and clean zip archive with the

essential artefacts of your LaTeX project? Maybe to submit it along with the

camera-ready PDF of your paper?

**The times when you manually cleaned out your project directory are over!**

We present: **La TeXtractor** a tool that takes care of everything for you (no

warranty!!)

## Installation

La TeXtractor is available on PyPI:

```

python3 -m pip install latextractor

```

## Usage

Simply run `textract -m paper.tex camera-ready.zip` and you are done.

Really, that's almost it. Check out `textract --help` for the more advanced

power-user features like

- include additional files (like a copyright form)

- get a directory with all files in the zip for extra reassurance

## How it works

To be honest: It's not hard. LaTeX's `-recorder` option does the heavy lifting

by listing all files that are accessed during a build run.

La TeXtractor just takes all (non-global) build assets from that list and zips

them up.

To make sure that everything that is needed for a build is included, La

TeXtractor test the build on a copy of the zip,

and prints a reassuring success message if all goes right.