Submit Paper — Pre-Submission Checklist

Run a systematic readiness check on a LaTeX paper project before submitting to a conference. Covers submission mode, mandatory sections, drafting artifacts, bibliography, anonymity, source formatting, and optional compilation.

Do not record local TeX availability as shared project state. Whether latexmk, pdflatex, xelatex, lualatex, tectonic, or tlmgr exists is a runtime fact about one user's machine. The durable project state is the compile backend for the paper or worktree: local, Overleaf-GitHub, CI, or unknown.

Use static checks locally by default. Run local LaTeX compilation only when the project compile backend is local or the user explicitly requests local compilation, and only after detecting an available compiler at runtime. For Overleaf-GitHub or CI backends, use pushed source plus remote logs/PDF artifacts as compile evidence.

Paper versions may live in separate worktrees. If the project has paper-worktrees/, prefer checking the specific version worktree for the target venue, arXiv release, or camera-ready submission rather than mutating the main paper/ branch.

When the task involves layout debugging, float placement, overfull/underfull boxes, short lines, page breaks, or screenshot-based formatting feedback, read references/layout-debugging.md before proposing fixes. Prefer page/object-specific local changes over one-shot global parameter tuning.

Step 1 — Locate the LaTeX project

// turbo Find the paper directory: