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fix(latex): brace bracket-leading bullets, document escapes, pin pdftotext encoding

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Three findings from the 2026-08-19 review (F9, F31, F34):

- F9: every placeholder bullet written as \item [text] let LaTeX parse
  the bracketed text as the item's optional label, rendering it clipped
  off the left page edge and absent from the PDF text layer ("Achievement"
  appeared 9 times in cv/main_example.tex and 0 times in the extraction,
  with a clean compile and green CI). Bullets are now braced as
  \item {[text]} in the example CV and in the template
  06-cover-letter-templates.md teaches, and CI's stock PDF assertions
  additionally require "Achievement" to survive pdftotext.

- F31: 05-cv-templates.md gains a "LaTeX Special Characters" section and
  06's is completed beyond \_ and \&. The load-bearing case is an
  unescaped % in a quantified achievement bullet: it starts a LaTeX
  comment and silently deletes the rest of the line from the PDF.

- F34: the documented ATS extraction commands (apply.md,
  05-cv-templates.md, CLAUDE.md) now carry -enc UTF-8. Xpdf-based
  pdftotext builds default to Latin-1 output, so a correct non-ASCII CV
  failed the replacement-character parseability check.

framework_version: 05-cv-templates.md 1.4.1 -> 1.4.2,
06-cover-letter-templates.md 1.0.1 -> 1.0.2. All three pinned by the new
tests/test_latex_guidance.py (9 tests; suite now 261).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -254,12 +254,12 @@ Do not proceed to Step 6 until both PDFs pass inspection.
An ATS parser reads the PDF's embedded **text layer**, not the rendered page — a CV that passed visual inspection can still extract as garbage (icon glyphs where the contact details should be, scrambled reading order in multi-column layouts). This step verifies what a parser actually sees. It applies to the **CV only**; cover letters rarely go through keyword screening.
**Availability check:** run `pdftotext -v`. `pdftotext` (poppler) is an optional dependency, not part of TeX distributions. If it is missing, print a one-line warning that the mechanical parse check is skipped, do the keyword-coverage check (item 3 below) against your visual Read of the PDF instead, and note the degraded mode in the Step 6 report. Same graceful-skip pattern as the salary lookup.
**Availability check:** run `pdftotext -v`. `pdftotext` (poppler) is an optional dependency, not part of TeX distributions. If it is missing, print a one-line warning that the mechanical parse check is skipped, do the keyword-coverage check (item 3 below) against your visual Read of the PDF instead, and note the degraded mode in the Step 6 report. Same graceful-skip pattern as the salary lookup. Keep the `-enc UTF-8` flag: Xpdf-based builds default to Latin-1 output, and without it a correct non-ASCII CV fails the replacement-character check below.
**1. Extract the text layer:**
```bash
cd cv && pdftotext -layout main_<company>_<role>.pdf main_<company>_<role>.txt
cd cv && pdftotext -layout -enc UTF-8 main_<company>_<role>.pdf main_<company>_<role>.txt
```
Read the `.txt` file.