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latex-polish
Inspect a cleanly compiling LaTeX document for source pathologies and rendered visual defects by linting and viewing selected PDF pages. Use when compilation succeeds but title pages, floats, tables, figures, or layout still need publication-quality review. Not for basic compilation health; use $latex-health-check.
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# LaTeX Polish — Source Lint + Vision-On-Rendered-PDF
> Heavier-weight visual-quality review than `latex`. Combines the Phase 4 source-pathology lint with vision-model inspection of selected rendered PDF pages. Designed to catch the failure class that `latex` Phase 4 source-grep misses: blank pages, clipped tables, illegible shrunken figures, weird title-page line spacing that the regex couldn't fingerprint, bad float placement, overlap.
## When to Use
- Pre-submission visual check on a paper, proposal, thesis, or deck
- After major restructuring (new sections, table re-layouts, figure swaps) when you want eyes on the rendered output
- When `latex` reports a clean build but something still "looks weird"
- When preparing for a panel / supervisor read where presentation matters
## When NOT to Use
| Need | Use instead |