blacktex 0.8.8

Clean up your LaTeX files

Clean up your LaTeX files.

blacktex is a command-line tool that helps with article editing in LaTeX. It removes all comments from a given file and corrects some common anti-patterns.

Install with one of

pip install -U blacktex

Then, with

blacktex in.tex > out.tex

the input file

Because   of $$a+b=c$$ ({\it Pythogoras}),
% @johnny remember to insert name
and $y=2^ng$ with $n=1,...,10$, we have ${\Gamma \over 2}=8.$

is converted to

Because of
\[
a+b = c
\]
(\textit{Pythogoras}),
and \(y = 2^n g\) with \(n = 1,\dots,10\), we have \(\frac{\Gamma}{2} = 8\).

You can use

blacktex -i in0.tex in1.tex ...

to modify files in-place. See blacktex -h for all options.