Compile Beamer LaTeX Slides

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Lets your agent compile a Beamer LaTeX slide deck into a PDF with citations resolved.

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About this skill

Compile a Beamer LaTeX slide deck with XeLaTeX (3 passes + bibtex). Use when user says "compile", "build the slides", "rebuild the PDF", "run latex", "render the tex", or asks why a `.tex` file isn't producing a PDF. Operates on `Slides/*.tex`.

What this skill tells your AI

The instructions your AI receives, as published by pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow in .claude/skills/compile-latex/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.

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

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Forks: 3k
Last commit: Sep 2026

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Key: compile-latex-pedrohcgs
Source: github.com/pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow

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