prepare latex project for arxiv

arxiv_prepare.sh

#!/bin/bash

# use \listfiles in preamble to get a list of included files

rm -rf arxiv_tmp
mkdir -p arxiv_tmp

# copy files to temp folder
rsync -av --files-from=list-of-files.txt . arxiv_tmp/

for f in `find arxiv_tmp/ -name "*.tex"`
do
	echo "Processing $f"
	# remove comments
	latexpand --empty-comments $f > "${f}_stripped"
	# strip lines that start with % 
	sed -i '/^\s*%/d' "${f}_stripped"
	# squeeze multiple blank lines into single blank lines
	# cat -s "${f}_stripped" | sponge "${f}_stripped"
	mv "${f}_stripped" $f
done

# create tarball for upload to arxiv
tar -cvf arxiv.tar -C arxiv_tmp .
rm -rf arxiv_tmp