Preprocess papers for submission to arxiv

README.md

What is this?

A Makefile recipe which allows to run make arxiv to get a tarball (__arxiv.tar.gz) that is ready to be uploaded to arXiv.

Prerequisites

The main LaTeX file has to be called main.tex, and the bibliography file has to be main.bib.

Makefile

FILENAME=main


.PHONY: arxiv
arxiv: clean
	pdflatex -interaction nonstopmode ${FILENAME}.tex
	bibtex ${FILENAME}
	pdflatex -interaction nonstopmode ${FILENAME}.tex
	pdflatex -interaction nonstopmode ${FILENAME}.tex
	rm -f ${FILENAME}.blg
	rm -f ${FILENAME}.aux
	rm -f ${FILENAME}.pdf
	rm -f ${FILENAME}.log
	cp ${FILENAME}.tex ${FILENAME}.tex.backup
	sed -i '2s;^;\\pdfoutput=1\n;' ${FILENAME}.tex
	cd .. && tar -czf __arxiv.tar.gz --exclude "Makefile" --exclude ".git" --exclude "${FILENAME}.tex.backup" $(shell basename ${PWD})
	mv ../__arxiv.tar.gz . 
	mv ${FILENAME}.tex.backup ${FILENAME}.tex


.PHONY: clean
clean:
	rm -f ${FILENAME}.bbl
	rm -f ${FILENAME}.blg
	rm -f ${FILENAME}.aux
	rm -f ${FILENAME}.pdf
	rm -f ${FILENAME}.log
	rm -f __arxiv.tar.gz