Compile Beamer LaTeX Slides
SkillFiles & storageLets your agent compile a Beamer LaTeX slide deck into a PDF with citations resolved.
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Then ask your AI: use the Compile Beamer LaTeX Slides skill
About this capability
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 $ARGUMENTS.tex
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Check for warnings:
- Grep output for
Overfull \\hboxwarnings - Grep for
undefined citationsorLabel(s) may have changed - Report any issues found
- Grep output for
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Open the PDF for visual verification:
open Slides/$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
.auxfile with citation keys - bibtex: Reads
.aux, generates.bblwith 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
.bibfile lives in the repo root
Signals
- GitHub stars
- 2k
- Forks
- 3k
- Last commit
- Aug 2026
Advanced
- Catalog kind
- skill
- Gateway key
compile-latex-pedrohcgs- Source
- github.com/pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow