Comment by mseri
4 months ago
Google has a great aid to reduce the attack surface: https://github.com/google-research/arxiv-latex-cleaner
4 months ago
Google has a great aid to reduce the attack surface: https://github.com/google-research/arxiv-latex-cleaner
I use this before submission and recommend others do too. If ai was in charge of arXiv Id have it integrated as an optional part of the submission process.
I do this by hand. In the whole process, cleaning up the TeX before submission is a small step. And I like to keep some comments, like explaining how some Tikz figures are made. Might help someone some day.
Yes but then we wouldn't have https://xcancel.com/LeaksPh
Most people I know simply use `latexpand` which "flattens" all files into one tex-file and by default removes all comments.