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Mads LorentzenandClaude Opus 5 b2545d5121 fix(latex): brace bracket-leading bullets, document escapes, pin pdftotext encoding
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>
2026-08-19 19:44:36 +02:00

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"""Guards for the LaTeX authoring guidance and the example documents.
Three silent-failure modes live here, all found by the 2026-08-19 review
(F9, F31, F34). Each one produces a clean compile and a green CI run
while the rendered document or its ATS extraction is wrong, so the spec
files and the example sources are the only place a test can catch them:
- F9: a bullet written as `\\item [text]` is parsed as moderncv's
optional label, rendered off the left page edge, and dropped from the
PDF text layer. The example CV shipped that way for months.
- F31: an unescaped `%` in body text silently truncates the rest of the
line (`&` at least fails loudly). The guidance must name the escapes.
- F34: `pdftotext` without `-enc UTF-8` emits Latin-1 on Xpdf builds,
so a correct Danish CV fails the documented "no replacement
characters" check and the agent is sent to "fix" a healthy document.
"""
import re
import unittest
from pathlib import Path
REPO = Path(__file__).resolve().parent.parent
SKILL_DIR = REPO / ".claude" / "skills" / "job-application-assistant"
CV_TEMPLATES = SKILL_DIR / "05-cv-templates.md"
COVER_TEMPLATES = SKILL_DIR / "06-cover-letter-templates.md"
APPLY = REPO / ".claude" / "commands" / "apply.md"
EXAMPLE_CV = REPO / "cv" / "main_example.tex"
EXAMPLE_COVER = REPO / "cover_letters" / "cover_example.tex"
# \item whose body starts with [ - with or without whitespace between.
# LaTeX skips spaces while scanning for the optional argument, so
# `\item [text]` and `\item[text]` both swallow the text as a label.
# The safe spelling `\item {[text]}` does not match.
UNBRACED_BRACKET_ITEM = re.compile(r"\\item\s*\[")
# The escapes both guidance files must document. `%` is the load-bearing
# one: it truncates silently. The others fail loudly or corrupt spacing.
REQUIRED_ESCAPES = ["\\&", "\\%", "\\$", "\\#", "\\_"]
def section(text, heading):
"""Return the body of a markdown section up to the next heading."""
pattern = re.compile(
rf"^#+ {re.escape(heading)}[^\n]*\n(.*?)(?=^#+ |\Z)",
re.MULTILINE | re.DOTALL,
)
match = pattern.search(text)
return match.group(1) if match else None
class TestBulletBracketTrap(unittest.TestCase):
"""F9: no document or template doc may teach `\\item [text]`."""
def assert_no_unbraced_bracket_items(self, path):
offending = [
f"{path.name}:{lineno}: {line.strip()}"
for lineno, line in enumerate(path.read_text(encoding="utf-8").splitlines(), 1)
if UNBRACED_BRACKET_ITEM.search(line)
]
self.assertEqual(
offending,
[],
"\\item followed by [ is parsed as an optional label and the "
"text is clipped off the page; write \\item {[...]} instead:\n"
+ "\n".join(offending),
)
def test_example_cv_has_no_bracket_labelled_bullets(self):
self.assert_no_unbraced_bracket_items(EXAMPLE_CV)
def test_example_cover_letter_has_no_bracket_labelled_bullets(self):
self.assert_no_unbraced_bracket_items(EXAMPLE_COVER)
def test_cover_letter_guide_does_not_teach_the_broken_pattern(self):
self.assert_no_unbraced_bracket_items(COVER_TEMPLATES)
def test_cv_guide_does_not_teach_the_broken_pattern(self):
self.assert_no_unbraced_bracket_items(CV_TEMPLATES)
class TestSpecialCharacterGuidance(unittest.TestCase):
"""F31: both template guides must document the LaTeX escapes."""
def assert_escapes_documented(self, path):
body = section(path.read_text(encoding="utf-8"), "LaTeX Special Characters")
self.assertIsNotNone(
body, f"{path.name} has no 'LaTeX Special Characters' section"
)
missing = [esc for esc in REQUIRED_ESCAPES if esc not in body]
self.assertEqual(
missing,
[],
f"{path.name}'s special-characters section is missing: {missing}",
)
def test_cv_guide_documents_the_escapes(self):
self.assert_escapes_documented(CV_TEMPLATES)
def test_cover_letter_guide_documents_the_escapes(self):
self.assert_escapes_documented(COVER_TEMPLATES)
def test_cv_guide_warns_that_percent_truncates_silently(self):
body = section(
CV_TEMPLATES.read_text(encoding="utf-8"), "LaTeX Special Characters"
)
self.assertIsNotNone(body)
self.assertRegex(
body,
re.compile(r"silent", re.IGNORECASE),
"the % failure mode must be called out as silent - it is the "
"reason this section exists (a clean compile with the rest of "
"the bullet gone)",
)
class TestAtsExtractionEncoding(unittest.TestCase):
"""F34: every documented extraction command must pin the encoding."""
def assert_pdftotext_commands_pin_utf8(self, path):
offending = [
f"{path.name}:{lineno}: {line.strip()}"
for lineno, line in enumerate(path.read_text(encoding="utf-8").splitlines(), 1)
if "pdftotext" in line and "-layout" in line and "-enc UTF-8" not in line
]
self.assertEqual(
offending,
[],
"pdftotext without -enc UTF-8 emits Latin-1 on Xpdf builds, so "
"the ATS check reports phantom replacement characters on any "
"non-ASCII CV; add -enc UTF-8:\n" + "\n".join(offending),
)
def test_apply_extraction_command_pins_utf8(self):
self.assert_pdftotext_commands_pin_utf8(APPLY)
def test_cv_guide_extraction_command_pins_utf8(self):
self.assert_pdftotext_commands_pin_utf8(CV_TEMPLATES)
if __name__ == "__main__":
unittest.main()