Author: Serge Rey
Version: 0.2 (2023/01/15)
License: LPPL v1.3 or later (LaTeX code) and BSD 3-Clause (Python code)
Development: https://github.com/sjsrey/manitex Requirements: Python 3+

The manitext package builds a manifest of files for a Latex article that has been accepted for publication.

• archive of manifest in a zip file
• automatic indexing of figures and graphic files

If the main latex document is called main.tex, we first need to generate a list of files required to compile the paper. To do this, add the following at the top of the main latex document:

\RequirePackage{snapshot}

Compiling the paper with pdflatex main will produce a file called main.dep that contains information that can be used to build the manifest. The main.dep file is required for manitex to work and an exception will be raised if the file is missing.

manitex main.tex

Will produce the zip file main.zip that contains all the figures and main tex files required to build the pdf version of the article, along with a README.md file that provides an index/explanation for the copy-editor.

In some cases it can be useful to create a directory that contains the manifest files, rather than only the archive. This can be done with:

manitex main.tex --outputdir dirname

dirname will contain the required files.