respond-to-referees
Respond to Referees
Produce a complete response-to-referees document by cross-referencing the referee report against the revised manuscript. Classify every concern, draft a courteous response for each, and flag anything unaddressed before submission.
Inputs
$0— path to the referee report$1— path to the revised manuscript
Supported formats and how to read them. In the commands below, FILE stands for the input path being converted — either $0 (referee report) or $1 (revised manuscript). Always use mktemp for the temp file (not a predictable /tmp/... name) so paths with spaces and concurrent runs don't collide, and so untrusted FILE paths can't clobber other temp files via symlink races.
| Format | How to extract text |
|---|---|
.tex, .qmd, .md, .txt |
Read directly with the Read tool. |
.pdf |
TMP=$(mktemp -d)/input.txt && pdftotext "FILE" "$TMP" (poppler-utils). Grep "$TMP". |
.docx |
TMP=$(mktemp -d)/input.txt && pandoc "FILE" -t plain -o "$TMP" (or docx2txt "FILE" "$TMP"). Grep "$TMP". |
.html |
TMP=$(mktemp -d)/input.txt && pandoc "FILE" -t plain -o "$TMP". Grep "$TMP". |
If a required tool is missing or extraction fails, ask the user to provide a plain-text version (.txt or .md) and stop. A scanned or partly scanned PDF extracts with exit 0 and blank pages, so also compare pdfinfo "FILE" | grep Pages with the pages that returned text (awk 'BEGIN{RS="\f"} NF{n++} END{print n+0}' "$TMP"); read any blank pages directly with Read, or ask for a text version, and if you go on without them, say which pages were not read. When you are done, delete the extracted copy (rm -rf "$(dirname "$TMP")"): it is a plaintext copy of the document.