NAME latexpand - Flatten LaTeX file by expanding \include and \input, ... and remove comments SYNOPSIS latexpand [options] FILE... Options: --verbose show what's going on --keep-comments don't strip comments (comments are lines starting with %, and anything below \end{document}) --empty-comments keep empty comments (i.e. % at end of lines) for clarity --keep-includes don't expand \input and \include directives --expand-usepackage Expand \usepackage{...} directives if the corresponding .sty file is found in $TEXINPUTS (or the current directory if $TEXINPUTS is not set) --expand-bbl FILE Expand the bibliography by inlining FILE (should be a *.bbl file) --help this help message --output , -o generate output in --explain generate explanatory comments in output --show-graphics show included graphics --graphics_extensions colon-separated list of possible graphics extensions (used by --show-graphics to find the actual graphics files) --fatal Die in case a file can't be found. --makeatletter Insert a \makeatletter in the preamble. In some rare cases it may break your document, but it may help fixing bad interactions between @-commands and inclusion (see BUGS section). --in-encoding FMT, --out-encoding FMT File encoding used by input and output files. This uses the same syntax as PerlIO's layers. Example: --in-encoding 'encoding(UTF-8)' The default is 'bytes' and should always work. USES The most common use of latexpand is to simplify distribution of source LaTeX files, typically to satisfy the requirement of editors and archival sites (springer, arXiv.org, ...) who force the authors to submit sources. One does not necessarily want to submit sources with comments, and uploading a document made of several files including each other is a bit painful. By default, latexpand answers both problems by outputing a single LaTeX file that contain no comment. GETTING LATEXPAND The latest version of latexpand is available here: https://gitlab.com/latexpand/latexpand Versions are uploaded to ctan.org from time to time: http://www.ctan.org/pkg/latexpand BUGS Please, report bugs on the issue tracker on the project site: https://gitlab.com/latexpand/latexpand/issues Known bugs Verbatim latexpand currently ignores \begin{verbatim} ... \end{verbatim}, and will therefore process any \include, \input, ... directives that appear within verbatim environments (while it shouldn't). LaTeX comments inside verbatim environments are also incorrectly stripped. You can use --keep-comments as a workaround to avoid this. Comment environment It would be nice to remove code between \begin{comment} and \end{comment} too if \usepackage{comment} is used. Code like foo% \begin{comment} will produce the incorrect foo\begin{comment} A workaround is to use --empty-comments when such tricky usage of the comments package is done. \makeatletter and use with transfig/xfig with \scalebox{} If \input{} or \include{} appears as argument to a command, and the file included contains \makeatletter, then after expansion, the \makeatletter and the @-command appear as argument to the command, which is forbidden because the argument is parsed (and the @-command badly tokenized) before being executed. This happens with \scalebox{ \input{file-generated-by-xfig.pdf_t} } Workaround: add \makeatletter before the scalebox manually in your code, like \makeatletter{} \scalebox{ \input{file-generated-by-xfig.pdf_t} } \makeatother{} In the case of xfig generated files, it is necessary only for the first occurence. A more brute-force workaround is to use latexpand --makeatletter. SEE ALSO Instructions to include only the relevant .bib items (french): https://lacl.fr/~caubert/notes/portabilite-du-tex.html#dependances VERSION This is latexpand version v1.5.