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!!)
La TeXtractor is available on PyPI:
python3 -m pip install latextractor
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
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.