Awesome-Agent-Skills-for-Empirical-Research compile-latex

Compile a Beamer LaTeX slide deck with XeLaTeX (3 passes + bibtex). Use when compiling lecture slides.

install

source · Clone the upstream repo

git clone https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Agent-Skills-for-Empirical-Research

Claude Code · Install into ~/.claude/skills/

T=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Agent-Skills-for-Empirical-Research "$T" && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r "$T/skills/12-pedrohcgs-claude-code-my-workflow/dot-claude/skills/compile-latex" ~/.claude/skills/brycewang-stanford-awesome-agent-skills-for-empirical-research-compile-latex && rm -rf "$T"

manifest: skills/12-pedrohcgs-claude-code-my-workflow/dot-claude/skills/compile-latex/SKILL.md

source content

Compile Beamer LaTeX Slides

Compile a Beamer slide deck using XeLaTeX with full citation resolution.

Steps

Navigate to Slides/ directory and compile with 3-pass sequence:

cd Slides
TEXINPUTS=../Preambles:$TEXINPUTS xelatex -interaction=nonstopmode $ARGUMENTS.tex
BIBINPUTS=..:$BIBINPUTS bibtex $ARGUMENTS
TEXINPUTS=../Preambles:$TEXINPUTS xelatex -interaction=nonstopmode $ARGUMENTS.tex
TEXINPUTS=../Preambles:$TEXINPUTS xelatex -interaction=nonstopmode $ARGUMENTS.tex

Alternative (latexmk):

cd Slides
TEXINPUTS=../Preambles:$TEXINPUTS BIBINPUTS=..:$BIBINPUTS latexmk -xelatex -interaction=nonstopmode $ARGUMENTS.tex

Check for warnings:
- Grep output for
```
Overfull \\hbox
```
  warnings
- Grep for
```
undefined citations
```
  or
```
Label(s) may have changed
```
- Report any issues found

Open the PDF for visual verification:

open Slides/$ARGUMENTS.pdf          # macOS
# xdg-open Slides/$ARGUMENTS.pdf    # Linux

Report results:
- Compilation success/failure
- Number of overfull hbox warnings
- Any undefined citations
- PDF page count

Why 3 passes?

First xelatex: Creates
```
.aux
```
file with citation keys
bibtex: Reads
```
.aux
```
, generates
```
.bbl
```
with formatted references
Second xelatex: Incorporates bibliography
Third xelatex: Resolves all cross-references with final page numbers

Important

Always use XeLaTeX, never pdflatex
TEXINPUTS is required: your Beamer theme lives in
```
Preambles/
```
BIBINPUTS is required: your
```
.bib
```
file lives in the repo root