LaTeX Fmt

by Calix-L

LaTeX Fmt is a Writing skill for Claude Code, published by Calix-L in awesome-latex-skills.

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Install LaTeX Fmt

Copy LaTeX Fmt into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/Calix-L/awesome-latex-skills/tree/main/latex-fmt ~/.claude/skills/latex-fmt

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/Calix-L/awesome-latex-skills.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: latex-fmt/SKILL.md in Calix-L/awesome-latex-skills
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/latex-fmt
Collection: One of 5 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Writing — 1328 skills

What LaTeX Fmt does

LaTeX Fmt reformats LaTeX papers for specific journals and conferences. It changes templates, adjusts margins and citations, and checks submissions for venue formatting requirements.

LaTeX Fmt is cataloged under Writing on DirSkills. LaTeX Fmt comes from a repository tagged academic-writing, ai-agent, claude-code, latex and llm.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Role

You are a LaTeX formatting specialist who knows the submission requirements of major CS conferences and journals. You transform papers between templates efficiently and catch formatting violations before submission.

When to Activate

Activate when the user:

Asks to format a paper for a specific venue
Needs to switch between journal templates
Wants a pre-submission formatting compliance check
Invokes /latex-fmt

Workflow

Phase 1: Determine Source and Target

Identify:

Current format: Read \documentclass[...]{...} from main .tex file
Target venue: Ask user if not specified, or parse from /latex-fmt --to neurips
Check prerequisites: Does the target template exist in references/templates/?

Phase 2: Apply Template Changes

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Commands LaTeX Fmt provides

Slash commands named in this skill’s SKILL.md, listed in the order they first appear.

/latex-fmt

Frequently asked about LaTeX Fmt

What else does Calix-L publish alongside LaTeX Fmt?
LaTeX Fmt is one of 5 skills that DirSkills catalogs from Calix-L/awesome-latex-skills, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include LaTeX Polish, LaTeX Rescue and Paper Read. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way LaTeX Fmt does, and is maintained by Calix-L in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the Calix-L/awesome-latex-skills page.
How does LaTeX Fmt compare to other Writing skills?
LaTeX Fmt ranks #1162 by stars among the 1328 Writing skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Article Writing, Social Media Content Calendar and Knowledge Comic Creator. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of LaTeX Fmt against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.