diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index fc993b6c..f76fc05f 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -7,9 +7,6 @@
 [submodule "book/external/deploy-book-workflow"]
 	path = book/external/deploy-book-workflow
 	url = https://github.com/TeachBooks/deploy-book-workflow.git
-[submodule "book/external/latex-to-markdown-conversion"]
-	path = book/external/latex-to-markdown-conversion
-	url = https://gitlab.tudelft.nl/opentextbooks/latex-to-markdown-conversion.git
 [submodule "book/external/Useful_python_code"]
 	path = book/external/Useful_python_code
 	url = https://github.com/TeachBooks/Useful_python_code.git
diff --git a/book/_toc.yml b/book/_toc.yml
index f91addb2..56d53cb1 100644
--- a/book/_toc.yml
+++ b/book/_toc.yml
@@ -104,7 +104,6 @@ parts:
     - file: tools/figmaker
     - file: helper_code/intro.md
       sections:
-      - file: external/latex-to-markdown-conversion/README.md
       - file: external/Useful_python_code/snippit.ipynb
       - file: external/Useful_python_code/extensionfildownloadreturn.ipynb
       - file: external/Useful_python_code/figshrinker.ipynb
diff --git a/book/external/latex-to-markdown-conversion b/book/external/latex-to-markdown-conversion
deleted file mode 160000
index cb816915..00000000
--- a/book/external/latex-to-markdown-conversion
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Subproject commit cb8169156e5c0150848cf52fb177d0d40934522e
diff --git a/book/helper_code/intro.md b/book/helper_code/intro.md
index c5e7c38e..0886e9e2 100644
--- a/book/helper_code/intro.md
+++ b/book/helper_code/intro.md
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 # Scripts for automating workflow
 
 This chapter contains a few scripts which can be useful in the book-editing process:
- - [LaTeX to markdown conversion](../external/latex-to-markdown-conversion/README.md) to convert a LaTeX file into jupyter-book compatible markdown.
  - [Snippitall](Snippitall) to insert the same code snippet at a certain point in each md file in a specific folder and all subfolder. 
  - [Snippitonce](Snippitonce) to insert the same code snippet at a certain point in each md file only in a specific folder. 
  - [Extensionchecker](Extensionchecker) to identify the kind of files present in subfolder