montxero / flatex

A Python script for "flattening" a nested LaTeX document by pulling in all the \input files

flatex.py

This "flattens" a LaTeX document by replacing all \input{X} lines w/ the text actually contained in X. I recently re-factored it to use the click module to create a command line interface.

Copyright, 2015, John J. Horton ([email protected]) Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License See http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt for details.

It was inspired by: http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/21838/replace-inputfilex-by-the-content-of-filex-automatically/21840#21840

There are C and perl versions of this, but I wanted a pure python version to fit in w/ my existing paper-creating toolchain.

To install

git clone [email protected]:johnjosephhorton/flatex.git
cd flatex
pip install --editable . 

To use as a stand-alone script

flatex inputfile.tex outputfile.tex

If you want to include the bbl file as well

flatex --include_bbl inputfile.tex outputfile.tex

Limitations:

1. It doesn't do \includes - just inputs.

2. I haven't tested it for nested inputs (thought it's designed to work on files like).

3. I haven't tested it for more complicated file arrangements e.g., realtive reference inputs that are more complex that just a file living in the same directory.

4. The test case writes to the /tmp folder - so the test probably wouldn't work on Windows(?).