Clean-up latex track changes

latex_track_change.md

Clean-up LaTeX Track Changes

Remove TrackChanges

If you have track change commands from the TrackChanges package (not the changes package), the commands can be removed by:

1. Copy the entire Overleaf (or latex) folder to PythonPackge under trackchanges folder. For the command above to work, copy entire latex folder under /trackchanges-0.7.0/PythonPackage/ folder. Confirm you have acceptchanges.py in a folder above your latex files.
2. Run Terminal and activate python v 2.7. Note that acceptchanges.py works only with python v2.7.
3. Compile main tex file and make pdf to keep an original tracked version in PDF file.
4. Rename all the tex files to be cleaned up. acceptchanges.py does not automatically deal with \input{} or \include{} files. So I have to process with acceptchanges.py all associated files individually.

mv 0-main-text.tex 0-main-text-old.tex

5. Run the following command to clean up.

python ../acceptchanges.py -c -n --infile=0-main.tex --outfile=0-main-no-track.tex

• If the command above does not change any, please consider remove all the commented parts using arxiv_latex_cleaner first.

Remove Changes

For latex changes package was used for track change, use pyMergeChanges.py.

python ../pyMergeChanges.py -a input.tex output.tex # python 3

Remove comments and organize files for submission

Under the base environment of anaconda, I installed arxiv_latex_cleaner (https://github.com/google-research/arxiv-latex-cleaner).

arxiv_latex_cleaner Hydrogen_FeS_paper/ --im_size 500

• This will create organized package in a new folder, Hydrogen_FeS_paper_arXiv.
• arxiv_latex_cleaner seems to know how to deal with \include{} and \input{}. It also deals well with bibunits.