latex-formatting

LaTeX Formatting is a Claude Code skill for setting up and maintaining LaTeX projects for academic paper submissions. It addresses the recurring friction of preparing camera-ready or anonymized manuscripts for specific conferences: getting the right style file, meeting page and column limits, escaping special characters, and passing pre-submission checks. It offers three actions: setup (scaffold a venue-specific project structure and main.tex), fix (repair common LaTeX issues), and check (run pre-submission validation).

The skill bundles two Python helper scripts and a venue-templates reference. latex_checker.py validates a .tex file against a target venue, checking word/page count, required sections, leftover TODO markers, anonymization, mismatched environments, and content stats, with a --fix mode that applies cleanup and writes a fixed file. clean_latex.py replaces special or non-UTF8 characters with LaTeX equivalents while skipping math environments, with dry-run and tables-only flags. The venue-templates reference documents specs for major ML and NLP conferences (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, AAAI, ACL/EMNLP, CVPR/ICCV, and others) including page counts, columns, style files, and anonymization requirements, plus a recommended project layout, an essential-package list, common math macros, and an anonymization checklist. It also references a companion citation-management skill for validating citations and figures.

It targets researchers and graduate students preparing conference or arXiv submissions who want consistent formatting and to catch compliance issues before the deadline. Typical uses include scaffolding a new paper for a target venue, cleaning problematic characters, and running an anonymization and page-limit check before submitting.