Insert user defined packages into a latex file (by using the
environment variable TEXINPUTS) and remove unused commands from the
latex file. Thus creating a compact file tat can be easily
shared. This program is part of the flatex program.
What is flatex?
Flatex is a program that make it easier to share latex file with other
users. It was written long long time ago in a place far far away (1994
and Tel-Aviv University, respectively) in time where email attachments
were not really there yet.
Flatten a latex file into a single file, by explicitly including the
files included by \include and \input commands. Also, if bibtex is
being used, then includes the .bbl file into the resulting
file. Thus, creating a stand alone latex file that can be emailed to
someone else.
It have three main usages:
Take a latex file that includes other files and create from them a
single input file. This way, if you have to send your files to
someone else, you can send him a single file that passes latex (instead
of several files).
Unflatex - namely take a file created by flatex and expand it
back into the several files it was before.
Bibliography - Insert .bbl file into latex file. Namely, if you
use bibtex, it take the file (.bbl) created by BibTex and
includes it into the latex file.
This program is similar to texexpand.
Source
Source - Unzip &
compile it by using make.
Last modified: Sat Feb 10 03:45:37 CST 2007