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Unpack. Extract the zip into templates/<venue>/. If a
directory of that name already exists with different contents,
confirm with the user before overwriting.
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Inspect the target kit. Read its sample .tex file, its
.cls/.sty/.bst files, and any README/instructions bundled with
it. Identify:
- The required
\documentclass line and options (columns, page
size).
- Required packages the kit's own class does not already load.
- The kit's native title/author/affiliation macros and their exact
call signatures.
- The bibliography style the kit expects (bibstyle/bst name).
- Any anonymous-mode toggle the kit defines (e.g.
\iccvfinalcopy, \cvprfinalcopy, a final class option).
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Scaffold the output directory. Create submit/<venue>/. Copy
every .cls, .sty, and .bst file from templates/<venue>/ into
submit/<venue>/ byte-for-byte. Never edit an official file's
contents — if something about it seems wrong, flag it in the final
report instead of patching it.
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Copy paper content unmodified. Copy, byte-for-byte, into
submit/<venue>/:
main/main.bibmain/secs/main/figs/ (including main/figs/srcs/)main/tabs/main/algs/main/appx.tex
Do not edit any of these files. .bib content is never touched,
per this repo's CLAUDE.md — if the venue needs a different
citation style, that is a \bibliographystyle{...} change in the
generated main.tex, not a .bib edit.
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Generate submit/<venue>/compat.sty. This repo's content files
use arXivTeX-only macros that the venue class will not define:
\parahead, \figref, \tabref, \algref, \eqnref,
\tablestyle, \cmark, \xmark, and the x/y/z/P/Y
compact table column types (all defined in main/main.cls — read
it for exact behavior). Re-implement each one used by the content
files as plain LaTeX on top of packages the venue class already
loads (or minimal, widely-available packages like array,
pifont, if the venue class doesn't already provide the
equivalent). This is what lets secs/, figs/, tabs/, algs/
compile unmodified against the new class.
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Generate submit/<venue>/main.tex. New entry point built from:
- The venue's own
\documentclass line, required packages, and
\input{compat.sty}.
- Title, author, affiliation, abstract, and keyword values parsed
out of the existing
main/main.tex preamble (its
\title/\author/\affiliation/\abstract/\keywords calls).
These calls are not always made directly in main.tex — e.g. this
repo's main/main.tex preamble does
\input{secs/00_abstract.tex}, and the \abstract{...}/
\keywords{...} calls actually live inside that file. Follow any
\input chains reachable from the main/main.tex preamble (before
\begin{document}) to find where these values are really set —
do not assume they're all literally in main.tex.
- Re-emit the extracted title/author/affiliation/abstract/keyword
text using the venue's own native macros from step 2. In
particular, the abstract and keywords text pulled from
secs/00_abstract.tex's \abstract{...}/\keywords{...} is
extracted and re-emitted through the venue's native
abstract/keywords mechanism (e.g. an abstract environment,
\begin{abstract}...\end{abstract}, or the venue's own
\keywords{...} macro) — secs/00_abstract.tex itself is NOT
\input-ed verbatim as a preamble call in the new main.tex,
since the venue class won't define arXivTeX's \abstract/
\keywords macros (or will define incompatible ones), causing a
compile error or silently wrong output. This applies only to that
title-metadata file; the rest of secs/ (body sections such as
01_introduction.tex) is still \input normally inside
\begin{document}, unchanged from below.
- Any paper-specific
\newcommand/\renewcommand definitions from
main/main.tex's own preamble (e.g. this repo's
\newcommand{\method}{MethodName\xspace}) — these aren't
arXivTeX-framework macros, so they won't be in compat.sty, but
the body content still relies on them. Carry them over into the
generated main.tex's preamble as-is.
- The same
\input{secs/...} order as main/main.tex, plus
\input{appx.tex} if the original includes it.
\bibliographystyle{...} set to whatever the venue kit expects,
and \bibliography{main} pointing at the copied main.bib.
Mode-specific handling:
- camera-ready: real author names, affiliations, and metadata
links (
\code, \project, \dataset values from main/main.tex).
- anonymous: replace every author with "Anonymous Author(s)" and
every affiliation with "Anonymous Institution"; replace
\code/\project/\dataset/\demo URLs with the literal text
"Link redacted for review"; enable the venue's anonymous-mode
toggle found in step 2 if one exists.
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Build and iterate. Run latexmk -pdf (or the kit's documented
build command, if different) inside submit/<venue>/. Read
compile errors and fix compat.sty/main.tex — never patch the
venue's own .cls/.sty/.bst files to work around an error.
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Report. Tell the user, in plain text:
- What was auto-mapped (title/author fields, bib style, column
macros).
- Anything needing manual attention: page-limit overflow, a
venue-mandated formatting rule not fully automated, a package the
venue kit doesn't provide that the content relies on, or any
content that could not be mapped 1:1.
- Never silently drop content to make it compile — call out the
gap instead.
