On Apr 5 2025, at 5:47 am, Scott Kostyshak <skost...@lyx.org> wrote: > On Sat, Apr 05, 2025 at 05:15:00AM +0200, Anders Ekberg via lyx-users wrote: > > 5 apr. 2025 kl. 00:13 skrev Paul Verschueren <p...@verschueren.org.uk>: > > > > > > Scott - Yes, absolutely definitely!!! > > > Great idea! > > > Paul > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: lyx-users <lyx-users-boun...@lists.lyx.org> On Behalf Of Scott > > > Kostyshak > > > Sent: 04 April 2025 23:09 > > > To: LyX Users <lyx-users@lists.lyx.org> > > > Subject: Export to an archive for arXiv submission? > > > > > > Does anyone make submissions to https://arxiv.org/ ? > > > > > > I wonder if it would be useful to have an easy way to export to a > > > .tar.gz, or zip, that is easily uploadable to arXiv. > > > > > > Would this be useful to others? > > > > > > Scott > > > -- > > > lyx-users mailing list > > > lyx-users@lists.lyx.org > > > https://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users > > > > Doesn’t the export to LyX Archive do exactly that? > > /Anders > > Very similar, but LyX Archive includes a .lyx file. It is for sharing > with someone who uses LyX. arXiv wants a .tex file that has nothing to > do with LyX. > > Also, arXiv has some other requirements. I don't know it well, but I > think a bbl needs to be included. We also have a script include_bib.py, > which I think can be used to get it. > > Indeed hopefully the code in the LyX archive script and the include_bib > script could be shared, since they already does the needed work of > collecting the dependencies. > > Scott
The script https://github.com/djsutherland/arxiv-collector does an excellent job of this for LaTeX files in my experience. It would be very convenient even just to have a pipeline that calls out to arxiv-collector to generate the tarball. Alex
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