What problem does it solve?
Compiling LaTeX academic papers for conference or journal submission is error-prone, with cryptic build failures, strict venue-specific page limits, and formatting rules that are easy to miss. This skill eliminates manual debugging and compliance checking, saving researchers hours of pre-submission work.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Automated LaTeX Compilation: Uses latexmk to handle multi-pass builds (pdflatex, BibTeX, etc.) automatically, with support for xelatex and lualatex for CJK or custom font needs.
- Intelligent Error Remediation: Auto-detects and fixes common LaTeX issues including missing packages, undefined references, missing figures, BibTeX syntax errors, and overfull hbox warnings.
- Submission Compliance Validation: Verifies page limits (with separate rules for ML conferences and IEEE venues), font embedding, anonymity, and absence of undefined references/citations to ensure papers meet submission requirements.
- Use Case: A researcher submitting to NeurIPS 2025 can use this skill to compile their paper, auto-fix missing citation errors, and confirm the main body fits the 9-page limit before uploading to OpenReview.
Quick Start
Use the paper-compile skill to compile the LaTeX paper in the ./paper directory into a submission-ready PDF that meets your target venue's formatting and page limit requirements.