LaTeX authoring skill and document-creation prompt for Claude Code, synthesized from 13 official LaTeX documentation PDFs.
A comprehensive LaTeX reference loaded as a Claude Code agent skill. Covers:
- Package load order and compatibility
- Typography rules (dashes, quotes, ellipsis, URLs, penalties)
- Tables: booktabs, longtable, tabularx — correct structure
- Floats and figures
- Cross-references with hyperref and cleveref
- Math: amsmath environments, operators, spacing
- Code listings setup and custom languages
- Page layout: geometry, fancyhdr, titlesec
- Colors and tcolorbox custom environments
- Bibliography with biblatex
- Beamer presentations
- TikZ/PGF basics
- Font selection and encoding
- Common mistakes and how to avoid them
- Compilation workflow and error diagnosis
A 31-rule system prompt for instructing an LLM to produce correct LaTeX from scratch. Encodes every rule from the skill as a directive. Use it as a system prompt when asking Claude (or any model) to write a .tex file.
Built from extracted text of these PDFs (789 pages total):
| File | Description |
|---|---|
| lshort.pdf | The Not So Short Introduction to LaTeX2e (v6.4) |
| latex2e-reference.pdf | LaTeX2e Reference Manual (June 2026) |
| usrguide.pdf | LaTeX2e for Authors |
| clsguide.pdf | LaTeX2e for Class and Package Writers |
| fntguide.pdf | LaTeX2e Font Selection Guide |
| amsmath.pdf | User's Guide for the amsmath Package |
| hyperref.pdf | Hyperref Manual (v7.01r) |
| geometry.pdf | geometry Package Manual |
| biblatex.pdf | BibLaTeX Manual |
| beameruserguide.pdf | Beamer User Guide (v3.78) |
| pgfmanual.pdf | PGF/TikZ Manual |
| latexsheet.pdf | LaTeX2e Cheat Sheet |
| symbols-comprehensive.pdf | Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List |
Copy latex.md into your project's .claude/agents/ directory:
mkdir -p .claude/agents
cp latex.md .claude/agents/latex.mdThen invoke it in Claude Code with /latex or reference it in your prompt.
Paste the contents of create-latex-document.md as the system prompt when starting a conversation about LaTeX document creation.