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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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@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ Both documents MUST be compiled and visually inspected via the Read tool on the
- [ ] **Cover letter bullet font matches body font** - `\lettercontent{}` must not wrap `\begin{itemize}...\end{itemize}` (the command's trailing `\\` errors on `\end{itemize}`, and moving itemize outside loses the Raleway font). Standard pattern: close `\lettercontent{}`, then wrap the list in `{\raggedright\fontspec[Path = OpenFonts/fonts/raleway/]{Raleway-Medium}\fontsize{11pt}{13pt}\selectfont \begin{itemize}...\end{itemize}\par}`
### ATS & keyword verification (CV)
ATS parsers read the PDF's embedded text layer, not the rendered page. Extract it with `pdftotext -layout` and verify what a parser sees. `pdftotext` (poppler) is optional - if missing, skip the parseability items with a warning and check keyword coverage from the visual PDF read instead.
ATS parsers read the PDF's embedded text layer, not the rendered page. Extract it with `pdftotext -layout -enc UTF-8` and verify what a parser sees. `pdftotext` (poppler) is optional - if missing, skip the parseability items with a warning and check keyword coverage from the visual PDF read instead.
- [ ] CV text layer extracts cleanly - no `(cid:*)` markers, `�` replacement characters, or text visible in the PDF but absent from the extraction
- [ ] Email and phone appear as **literal text** in the extraction (icon-glyph noise like `MOBILE-ALT`/`Envelope` is harmless, but a contact detail carried only by an icon or hyperlink is invisible to ATS)
- [ ] Reading order of the extracted text matches the visual order (single-column stock template is safe; multi-column custom templates are where this breaks)