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 :)
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
- Make sure you have Perl 5.8+ in your environment.
- Download
latexdiff
from https://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/latexdiff unzip latexdiff
python3 -m latex_proj_tool flat old_project/main.tex --output old.tex
python3 -m latex_proj_tool flat new_project/main.tex --output new.tex
latexdiff old.tex new.tex > tmp.tex
sed 's/^M//' tmp.tex > diff.tex
- Compile
diff.tex
to get the PDF.
List all unused files to help you clean the project.
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