LatexSAK

LaTeX swiss army knife

Install

pip install latexSAK --upgrade

You need the following commands available on your computer:

• latexpand
• delatex (brew install opendetex)
• awk
• zip

Features

Run latexSAK -h to show all the options available.

latexSAK first removes all commands listed in commandsToIgnore.json. This file is generated in the current folder the first time the command is executed. You can then edits the commands to ignore by editing this file that will be loaded upon running the command again.

commandsToIgnore.json defines 4 levels of command to ignore that can be set using the -level option. The default level is 1.

Number of words --count

Count the number of words

clean the tex file and figures --clean

Creates a clean version of the document, using image files actually used. Cleaned files can be found in articleclean/ folder.

zip --zip

Creates the zip archive of the previously cleaned folder (articleclean/).

Get text --text

Get text only and creates the file articleTextOnly.md

Captions --captions

Get captions from images and tables that use the \Description command from acmart.