Flap is a simple utility that flattens LaTeX projects. It takes a well-organised LaTeX project—one you so carefully crafted—and merged it into a vulgar single LaTeX file in a 'flat' directory.
Why? Some publishers require one such flat structure when you submit the sources of your manuscript, and I got tired to flatten the sources by hand.
Another one? There already a couple of tools that merge latex projects such as latexpand, flatex or flatten. As far as I know, they only merge TeX files, without moving graphics around. I learned recently about texdirflatten, which seems to be an alternative, but I haven’t tried it.
FLaP requires Python 3 (3.3, 3.4, 3.5 and 3.6 are tested). Python 3.2 is not compatible anymore. The easiest way to install FLaP is to use pip using pip install flap.
Alternatively, you may download the sources distribution and use python
setup.py install
For the newest (development) version, use:
$> flap project/main.tex output/directory
Prior to v0.4.1 (included), we invoke FLaP using:
$> python -m flap project/main.tex output/directory
See also the online FLaP documentation.
If you give FLaP a try, please report any bugs, issues or feature request using the issue tracker.