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Translate Beamer LaTeX to Quarto RevealJS. Multi-phase workflow with TikZ extraction and QA.

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$ npx -y skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill translate-to-quarto --agent claude-code

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  • Fires itselfAuto-invocation. Claude auto-loads it when your prompt matches the work.Auto-invocation is when the right skill fires by itself at the right moment, driven by a FLOW.md router and a hook, instead of you invoking it by name. It is the difference between a skill being installed and a skill actually getting used.Read the full definition →
  • You can call itInvoke it directly when you want it.
  • Slash command/translate-to-quarto

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Translate Beamer LaTeX to Quarto RevealJS. Multi-phase workflow with TikZ extraction and QA.

SKILL.md

translate-to-quarto.SKILL.md
name: translate-to-quarto
description: Translate Beamer LaTeX to Quarto RevealJS. Multi-phase workflow with TikZ extraction and QA.
argument-hint: "[LectureN_Topic.tex]"
allowed-tools: ["Read", "Grep", "Glob", "Write", "Edit", "Bash", "Task"]
context: fork

Beamer → Quarto Translation Workflow

Full translation of a Beamer LaTeX lecture to Quarto RevealJS HTML slides.

**CRITICAL: The Beamer .tex file is the SINGLE SOURCE OF TRUTH.**

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Phase 0: Pre-Flight Checks

0A. Environment Parity Audit

Scan Beamer for all custom environments. Verify CSS equivalents exist in your theme SCSS. If any are missing, create them FIRST.

0B. TikZ Freshness Verification

Run `/extract-tikz` to verify SVGs match current Beamer source.

0C. RDS Data Inventory

List all RDS files needed for interactive charts.

0D. Citation Key Mapping

Extract all citations from Beamer, map to bibliography keys.

Phase 1: Pre-Translation Preparation

  • Read complete Beamer source, count frames
  • Inventory figures (TikZ → SVG, R plots → plotly, other → SVG)

Phase 2: Create QMD File with YAML Header

  • Standard RevealJS YAML with theme, logo, footer, bibliography
  • Setup chunk for R data loading if needed

Phase 3: Slide-by-Slide Translation

  • Delegate to `beamer-translator` agent
  • 1:1 frame-to-slide mapping
  • Verbatim math, environment parity, no font reduction

Phase 4: TikZ Diagram Integration

Reference extracted SVGs with 0-based indexing.

Phase 5: R Figure Integration (Plotly-First)

Interactive plotly from RDS data, static SVG for TikZ/complex figures.

Phase 6: First Render & Content Fidelity Check

Render, count slides, go through EVERY slide checking for issues.

Phase 6.5: Pedagogical Review

Run pedagogy-reviewer before visual polish.

Phase 7: Visual Polish

Semantic colors, transition slides, framing sentences.

Phase 8: Proofreading

Run `/proofread` on the QMD file.

Phase 9: Final Verification & Deployment

Render, open in browser, verify all elements.

Phase 10: Beamer Source Sync

Apply any corrections back to Beamer source.

Phase 11: Documentation

Update CLAUDE.md, session log, create PR.

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