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. For example, with
blacktex in.tex > out.tex
the input file
Because of $$a+b=c$$ ({\it Pythogoras}),
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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.
blacktex is available from the Python Package Index, so with
pip install -U blacktex
you can install/upgrade.
This software is published under the GPLv3 license.