Awesome-Agent-Skills-for-Empirical-Research extract-tikz

Extract TikZ diagrams from Beamer source, compile to PDF, convert to SVG with 0-based indexing. Use when updating TikZ diagrams for Quarto 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 "$T/skills/12-pedrohcgs-claude-code-my-workflow/dot-claude/skills/extract-tikz" ~/.claude/skills/brycewang-stanford-awesome-agent-skills-for-empirical-research-extract-tikz && rm -rf "$T"

manifest: skills/12-pedrohcgs-claude-code-my-workflow/dot-claude/skills/extract-tikz/SKILL.md

source content

Extract TikZ Diagrams to SVG

Extract TikZ diagrams from the Beamer source, compile to multi-page PDF, and convert each page to SVG for use in Quarto slides.

Steps

Step 0: Freshness Check (MANDATORY)

Before compiling, verify that

extract_tikz.tex

matches the current Beamer source.

Find the Beamer source:
```
ls Slides/$ARGUMENTS*.tex
```
Extract all
```
\begin{tikzpicture}
```
blocks from Beamer
Compare with
```
Figures/$ARGUMENTS/extract_tikz.tex
```
If ANY difference exists: update extract_tikz.tex from the Beamer source
If extract_tikz.tex doesn't exist: create it from scratch

Step 1: Navigate to the lecture's Figures directory

cd Figures/$ARGUMENTS

Step 2: Compile the extract_tikz.tex file

TEXINPUTS=../../Preambles:$TEXINPUTS xelatex -interaction=nonstopmode extract_tikz.tex

Step 3: Count the number of pages

pdfinfo extract_tikz.pdf | grep "Pages:"

Step 4: Convert each page to SVG using 0-BASED INDEXING

CRITICAL: PDF pages are 1-indexed, but output SVG files are 0-indexed!

PAGES=$(pdfinfo extract_tikz.pdf | grep "Pages:" | awk '{print $2}')
for i in $(seq 1 $PAGES); do
  idx=$(printf "%02d" $((i-1)))
  pdf2svg extract_tikz.pdf tikz_exact_$idx.svg $i
done

Step 5: Sync to docs/ for deployment

cd ../..
./scripts/sync_to_docs.sh $ARGUMENTS

Step 6: Verify SVG files

Read 2-3 SVG files to confirm they contain valid SVG markup
Confirm file sizes are reasonable (not 0 bytes)

Step 7: Report results

Source of Truth Reminder

TikZ diagrams MUST be edited in the Beamer

.tex

file first, then copied verbatim to

extract_tikz.tex

. See

.claude/rules/single-source-of-truth.md