paperlint 7.2.0 → 9.0.0

package/docs/rules.md

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 The README lists what each check catches in one line. This page says exactly which file each one
 reads and when it fails. Errors fail `paperlint lint`; warnings print and do not.
 
-| Rule                                                                  | Level                                        | Reads                                                               | Fails when                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             |
-| --------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
-| `paper/stages`                                                        | error                                        | `PIPELINE-STATUS.md`                                                | a declared stage's PDF is missing, or the `bytes:` it names does not match the file's real size, or a frozen PDF exists that no stage declares                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         |
-| `paper/source`                                                        | error                                        | `PIPELINE-STATUS.md`                                                | a declared stage has no frozen `.tex` beside its PDF (a commit hash does not count — squash and gc destroy it)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         |
-| [`cycle/record`](rules/cycle/record.md)                               | error                                        | `paperlint.json` (`cycles`)                                         | the paper's attempts at venues (`cycles`, one entry per attempt) hold one source's deadlines out of order (registration ≤ submission ≤ resubmission < notification < camera-ready), or copy a portal reading the venue's preset carries; reported on `PIPELINE-STATUS.md`. A record that does not parse — a bare date, two open cycles, an unknown key — is refused by `paperlint lint` itself before any rule runs, exit 2 — [page](rules/cycle/record.md)                                                                                            |
-| [`cycle/evidence`](rules/cycle/evidence.md)                           | error                                        | `paperlint.json` (`cycles`) → the paper folder                      | a closed cycle (`accepted`, `rejected`, `withdrawn`) or a deadline's `override` names an `evidence` file — the decision mail, the reviews, the withdrawal note, the chairs' mail — that is not in the paper folder; reported on `PIPELINE-STATUS.md` — [page](rules/cycle/evidence.md)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 |
-| [`cycle/stage`](rules/cycle/stage.md)                                 | error                                        | `PIPELINE-STATUS.md` → `paperlint.json` (`cycles`)                  | with `cycles` declared, a stage names no `cycle: <id>`, names one no cycle has, or a `submitted`/`camera-ready` stage belongs to a cycle whose `phase` is still `porting` — [page](rules/cycle/stage.md)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               |
-| [`cycle/port-done`](rules/cycle/port-done.md)                         | error                                        | `paper.tex` → `paperlint.json` (`cycles`) → the preset's `template` | the current cycle still declares `"phase": "porting"` (which silences the venue's format rules) while the `\documentclass` is already the venue's template: the port is done, drop the phase — [page](rules/cycle/port-done.md)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        |
-| [`paper/folder-venue-leftover`](rules/paper/folder-venue-leftover.md) | warn                                         | the folder name → `paperlint.json`                                  | the paper's folder is named after another shipped venue than the one it extends (`papers/aisec-2026/` for a paper now set for AIDC); reported on `PIPELINE-STATUS.md` — [page](rules/paper/folder-venue-leftover.md)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   |
-| `paper/author-list`                                                   | error                                        | `paper.tex` → `_build/references.json`                              | an entry's authors are not those of the version it cites — typically the arXiv preprint's list under a published venue. Checked online by `paperlint build` (DBLP), reported on the entry's own line                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   |
-| `paper/section-word`                                                  | warn                                         | `paper.tex` and its body files, `paper.md`                          | `§` or `\S\ref` instead of the word Section. **Fixable:** `--fix` writes `Section~\ref{…}` / `Section 5`                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               |
-| `paper/leading-zero`                                                  | warn                                         | `paper.tex` and its body files, `paper.md`                          | a decimal below 1 without its leading zero (`.05` instead of `0.05`, IEEE / ISO 80000-1 style), counted only where the reader sees it — prose, math and table cells, not macro options, column specs, comments, code or tikz. A number right after `¶` or `§` (`¶¶.42`) is a paragraph designator and is not reported; in a paragraph that cites numbers that way, another bare decimal is reported without a fix, with the zero as a suggestion. **Fixable**                                                                                          |
-| `paper/figure-ref-style`                                              | warn                                         | `paper.tex` and its body files                                      | `Fig.~\ref` and `Figure~\ref` mixed in one document; each minority occurrence is reported. **Fixable:** `--fix` writes the majority form                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               |
-| `bib/reachable-entry`                                                 | warn                                         | `paper.tex` (its `filecontents` bibliography)                       | an entry has no doi, url or arXiv id — a reader has nothing to follow. Reported on the entry; no fix, the link has to be looked up                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     |
-| `paper/cite-exists`                                                   | error                                        | `paper.tex` → `_build/references.json`                              | an entry's doi or arXiv id resolves to nothing, or to a different work. Checked online by `paperlint build`; a work that was merely not found is not a finding                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         |
-| `paper/refs-fresh`                                                    | error                                        | `paper.tex` → `_build/references.json`                              | the bibliography changed since the build checked it (its SHA-256 differs) — run `npx paperlint build`                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  |
-| `paper/refs-checked`                                                  | warn                                         | `paper.tex` → `_build/references.json`                              | the paper has a bibliography and no build has checked it, or the last build could not (no network) — so the two rules above did not run                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                |
-| `tex/future-promise`                                                  | warn                                         | `paper.tex` and its body files                                      | a camera-ready build still says "will be released" about something already handed over                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 |
-| `tex/acm-frontmatter-override`                                        | error                                        | `paper.tex`                                                         | an `acmart` build overrides ACM's front-matter commands and drops template elements from page 1                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        |
-| [`tex/template`](rules/tex/template.md)                               | error                                        | `paper.tex` → `paperlint.json`                                      | the `\documentclass` is not the preset's `template` class, or lacks an option it names — [page](rules/tex/template.md)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 |
-| [`tex/required-section`](rules/tex/required-section.md)               | error                                        | `paper.tex` → `paperlint.json`                                      | a section the preset requires (AIDC: «LLM Usage Statement», last) is missing or not where it must be — [page](rules/tex/required-section.md)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           |
-| [`tex/heading-case`](rules/tex/heading-case.md)                       | optional; the AgenticDev preset sets `error` | `paper.tex` and the files it includes                               | a word in the paper's `\title` or in a `\section`, `\subsection`, `\subsubsection`, `\paragraph` or `\subparagraph` title is not in the style its scope asks: `{ "title", "headings", "levels"? }`, each `chicago-headline` (Conference Publishing's quote of the Chicago Manual of Style), `sentence` (first word only) or `any`. Words that are a preposition in one title and a particle in another (`up`, `on`, `in`) are not read mid-title. **Fixable:** `--fix` — [page](rules/tex/heading-case.md)                                             |
-| [`format/layout-override`](rules/format/layout-override.md)           | error                                        | `paper.tex` → `paperlint.json`                                      | the source changes the page layout the venue's template sets for the whole document — `geometry`, a layout `\setlength`, `\linespread`, `\baselinestretch` — [page](rules/format/layout-override.md)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   |
-| [`anonymity/identity`](rules/anonymity/identity.md)                   | error                                        | `paper.tex` → `_build/paper.facts.json`                             | a double-blind venue (`"blind": true`) and no `identity` declared, or a declared name, handle, email or project in the PDF's text, metadata or link targets — [page](rules/anonymity/identity.md)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      |
-| [`tex/venue-leftover`](rules/tex/venue-leftover.md)                   | warn                                         | `paper.tex` → `paperlint.json`                                      | the text names another shipped venue than the one the paper extends («Submission to VenueA 2026» in a paper now set for VenueB) — [page](rules/tex/venue-leftover.md)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  |
-| [`tex/claim-provenance`](rules/tex/claim-provenance.md)               | warn                                         | `paper.tex`                                                         | a sentence of the body states a number and does not say whose it is — no citation or link, no _we_/_our_, no `\ref` or "Table 2", no sample ("n = 134", "48 runs") — [page](rules/tex/claim-provenance.md)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             |
-| [`tex/register`](rules/tex/register.md)                               | warn                                         | `paper.tex` and the files it includes                               | the body runs to a post's register: more than 0.8 sentences per 1000 words open with _And_, _So_, _But_, _Nor_, _Or_ or _Yet_ — the limit is an option — [page](rules/tex/register.md)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 |
-| [`tex/contrast-frames`](rules/tex/contrast-frames.md)                 | warn                                         | `paper.tex` and the files it includes → `paperlint.json`            | contrast frames (_X, not Y_, _not X but Y_, _rather than_, _instead of_, _as opposed to_) per 10,000 words fall outside the band the venue preset's anchors set (AIDC: 0–10.4, from five accepted ACSAC papers); above it, each frame is reported too — [page](rules/tex/contrast-frames.md)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           |
-| [`tex/claim-emphasis`](rules/tex/claim-emphasis.md)                   | warn                                         | `paper.tex` and the files it includes → `paperlint.json`            | claims set in bold inside a sentence (six words or more, or holding a number; not a term, not a label opening a paragraph) per 10,000 words fall outside the preset's band (AIDC: 0–17.8); above it, each is reported too — [page](rules/tex/claim-emphasis.md)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        |
-| [`tex/relation-markers`](rules/tex/relation-markers.md)               | warn                                         | `paper.tex` and the files it includes → `paperlint.json`            | words that name how a sentence relates to the one before (_because_, _therefore_, _however_, _for example_ …) per 10,000 words fall outside the preset's band (AIDC: 25.4–135.0) — the floor that catches relations left to infer — [page](rules/tex/relation-markers.md)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              |
-| `review/frontmatter`                                                  | error                                        | `reviews/*.md`                                                      | the review's frontmatter fails paperlint's JSON Schema — a `findings` record without `id`/`status`, an unknown field, or an **open** finding with no `cause` (`skill-defect` · `missing-skill` · `hook` · `rule`). A review with no `findings` key is not checked for findings                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         |
-| `sibling/frontmatter`                                                 | warn                                         | `siblings/*.md` (not `README.md`)                                   | a sibling card's frontmatter has no `read:` saying how much of the competing paper was read (`full` · `abstract` · `none`)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             |
-| `pdf/fresh`                                                           | error                                        | `paper.tex` → `_build/paper.facts.json`                             | the paper names a venue and the facts cannot be judged: not JSON, a schema other than 3, or they describe a PDF that is gone or differs from the one on disk (its SHA-256)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             |
-| `pdf/profile`                                                         | error                                        | `paper.tex` → `paperlint.json`                                      | `paperlint.json` is not JSON or has an unknown key, its `extends` does not resolve (not found, a cycle, a chain longer than four, a preset that fails the schema, an npm name), it names no `kind` while the preset has kinds, or names a kind the preset does not have                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                |
-| `pdf/fonts`                                                           | error                                        | `paper.tex` → `_build/paper.facts.json`                             | a font the pages draw is Type 3 or not embedded, or no font starts with the family the venue preset names for body text (`fonts_text`) or headings (`fonts_title`)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     |
-| `pdf/geometry`                                                        | error                                        | `paper.tex` → `_build/paper.facts.json`                             | the page width or height is more than `dimTol` (default 0.05 in) off the preset's, or the column count differs                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         |
-| [`format/page-limit`](rules/format/page-limit.md)                     | error                                        | `paper.tex` → `_build/paper.facts.json`                             | body or reference pages exceed the limits of the paper's kind. With `body_ends_at: "references"` (AIDC) the body ends at the references or the appendix, whichever comes first — found by hyperref's anchors, then the heading line — and the page it ends on counts when body text stands above the heading; with `appendix_in_body` too (MSR) the appendix is body wherever it sits and the reference pages are the ones holding only references; an end it cannot find, or signals that disagree, are reported — [page](rules/format/page-limit.md) |
-| [`pdf/body-size`](rules/pdf/body-size.md)                             | error                                        | `paper.tex` → `_build/paper.facts.json`                             | the body font size is more than `body_pt_tol` off the preset's, or the reference font size is outside the preset's range widened by `body_pt_tol`. banal reads 0.3 pt above the size the glyphs are set in; checked on five built accepted papers (none reported) and three variants one size off (each reported) — [page](rules/pdf/body-size.md)                                                                                                                                                                                                     |
-| `pdf/measured`                                                        | warn                                         | `paper.tex` → `_build/paper.facts.json`                             | the paper's `paperlint.json` names no venue preset yet; or it names one and there are no facts (it was not built), or the facts carry no page geometry (banal was not found) — so the checks above did not run                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         |
-| [`talk/profile`](rules/talk/profile.md)                               | error                                        | `paper.tex` → `paperlint.json`                                      | the paper declares `talk` and names no preset, the preset has no `talk` block, the mode is not one the venue allows, or the venue sets no talk slot for the paper's kind — [page](rules/talk/profile.md)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               |
-| [`talk/required-files`](rules/talk/required-files.md)                 | error                                        | `paper.tex` → `paperlint.json`, the talk folder                     | a file the venue requires for the paper's talk mode (video, one-slide, captions…) is not in the talk folder — [page](rules/talk/required-files.md)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     |
-| [`talk/undeclared`](rules/talk/undeclared.md)                         | warn                                         | `paper.tex` → the paper's `talk/` folder                            | an `.mp4` sits in `talk/` and the paper declares no `talk`, so nothing checks it — [page](rules/talk/undeclared.md)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    |
-| [`talk/duration`](rules/talk/duration.md)                             | error                                        | `paper.tex` → the talk video                                        | the video runs longer than the slot's `talk_s_max`, or its audio track is more than 1 s off the video's length — [page](rules/talk/duration.md)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        |
-| [`talk/duration-floor`](rules/talk/duration-floor.md)                 | warn                                         | `paper.tex` → the talk video                                        | the video runs shorter than the slot's `talk_s_min` — [page](rules/talk/duration-floor.md)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             |
-| [`talk/video-format`](rules/talk/video-format.md)                     | error                                        | `paper.tex` → the talk video                                        | the video is not ISO media, is QuickTime where the venue asks for MP4, is under `min_height_px`, or over `max_bytes` — [page](rules/talk/video-format.md)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              |
-| [`talk/one-slide-size`](rules/talk/one-slide-size.md)                 | error                                        | `paper.tex` → the one-slide PNG                                     | the one-slide image is not the size the paper or the preset states, or not a PNG — [page](rules/talk/one-slide-size.md)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                |
-| [`talk/captions-cover`](rules/talk/captions-cover.md)                 | warn                                         | `paper.tex` → the captions and the video                            | the captions start late, end early or leave a long gap (uncalibrated thresholds) — [page](rules/talk/captions-cover.md)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                |
-
-**Body files** are the files `paper.tex` includes from its document body (`\input`, `\include`,
-`\subfile`, nested ones too), found in the paper's directory — not a preamble include, not a file
-found only in paperlint's own inputs, and not any other `.tex` beside the paper (`versions/`). Only
-the `.tex` ones are linted on their own: an included `.bbl` or `.pgf` is a tool's output, read into
-the whole paper where TeX typesets it, but not judged or fixed as prose of its own. A
-finding in a body file is reported at that file and line, and `--fix` edits that file. Which reference form
-is the majority and whether the build is a review build are decided over the whole paper. An include
-that names no file is printed as a note: lint did not read it, and the build will stop on it.
+| Rule                                                                  | Level                                        | Reads                                                                             | Fails when                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             |
+| --------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
+| `paper/stages`                                                        | error                                        | `PIPELINE-STATUS.md`                                                              | a declared stage's PDF is missing, or the `bytes:` it names does not match the file's real size, or a frozen PDF exists that no stage declares                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         |
+| `paper/source`                                                        | error                                        | `PIPELINE-STATUS.md`                                                              | a declared stage has no frozen `.tex` beside its PDF (a commit hash does not count — squash and gc destroy it)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         |
+| [`cycle/record`](rules/cycle/record.md)                               | error                                        | `paperlint.json` (`cycles`)                                                       | the paper's attempts at venues (`cycles`, one entry per attempt) hold one source's deadlines out of order (registration ≤ submission ≤ resubmission < notification < camera-ready), or copy a portal reading the venue's preset carries; reported on `PIPELINE-STATUS.md`. A record that does not parse — a bare date, two open cycles, an unknown key — is refused by `paperlint lint` itself before any rule runs, exit 2 — [page](rules/cycle/record.md)                                                                                            |
+| [`cycle/evidence`](rules/cycle/evidence.md)                           | error                                        | `paperlint.json` (`cycles`) → the paper folder                                    | a closed cycle (`accepted`, `rejected`, `withdrawn`) or a deadline's `override` names an `evidence` file — the decision mail, the reviews, the withdrawal note, the chairs' mail — that is not in the paper folder; reported on `PIPELINE-STATUS.md` — [page](rules/cycle/evidence.md)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 |
+| [`cycle/stage`](rules/cycle/stage.md)                                 | error                                        | `PIPELINE-STATUS.md` → `paperlint.json` (`cycles`)                                | with `cycles` declared, a stage names no `cycle: <id>`, names one no cycle has, or a `submitted`/`camera-ready` stage belongs to a cycle whose `phase` is still `porting` — [page](rules/cycle/stage.md)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               |
+| [`cycle/port-done`](rules/cycle/port-done.md)                         | error                                        | `paper.tex` → `paperlint.json` (`cycles`) → the preset's `template`               | the current cycle still declares `"phase": "porting"` (which silences the venue's format rules) while the `\documentclass` is already the venue's template: the port is done, drop the phase — [page](rules/cycle/port-done.md)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        |
+| [`paper/folder-venue-leftover`](rules/paper/folder-venue-leftover.md) | warn                                         | the folder name → `paperlint.json`                                                | the paper's folder is named after another shipped venue than the one it extends (`papers/aisec-2026/` for a paper now set for AIDC); reported on `PIPELINE-STATUS.md` — [page](rules/paper/folder-venue-leftover.md)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   |
+| [`paper/sources-fresh`](rules/paper/sources-fresh.md)                 | warn                                         | `paper.tex` → `_build/sources.json`                                               | the paper has not been built (no record of the files TeX read), or a file changed since the last build (its SHA-256 differs) — run `npx paperlint build`                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               |
+| `paper/author-list`                                                   | error                                        | `paper.tex` → `_build/references.json`, `_build/sources.json`                     | an entry's authors are not those of the version it cites — typically the arXiv preprint's list under a published venue. Checked online by `paperlint build` (DBLP), reported on the entry's own line (or at the top of `paper.tex`, naming the entry's file); silent without a current build record                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    |
+| `paper/section-word`                                                  | warn                                         | `paper.tex` and its body files                                                    | `§` or `\S\ref` instead of the word Section. **Fixable:** `--fix` writes `Section~\ref{…}` / `Section 5`                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               |
+| `paper/leading-zero`                                                  | warn                                         | `paper.tex` and its body files                                                    | a decimal below 1 without its leading zero (`.05` instead of `0.05`, IEEE / ISO 80000-1 style), counted only where the reader sees it — prose, math and table cells, not macro options, column specs, comments, code or tikz. A number right after `¶` or `§` (`¶¶.42`) is a paragraph designator and is not reported; in a paragraph that cites numbers that way, another bare decimal is reported without a fix, with the zero as a suggestion. **Fixable**                                                                                          |
+| `paper/figure-ref-style`                                              | warn                                         | `paper.tex` and its body files                                                    | `Fig.~\ref` and `Figure~\ref` mixed in one document; each minority occurrence is reported. **Fixable:** `--fix` writes the majority form                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               |
+| [`bib/reachable-entry`](rules/bib/reachable-entry.md)                 | warn                                         | `paper.tex` → `_build/sources.json`: the databases the last build's bibtex opened | an entry has no doi, url or arXiv id — a reader has nothing to follow. Reported on the entry in the `filecontents` block of `paper.tex` that wrote its `.bib`, or at the top of `paper.tex` with the entry's file and line first; silent until a build records the paper; no fix, the link has to be looked up — [page](rules/bib/reachable-entry.md)                                                                                                                                                                                                  |
+| `paper/cite-exists`                                                   | error                                        | `paper.tex` → `_build/references.json`                                            | an entry's doi or arXiv id resolves to nothing, or to a different work. Checked online by `paperlint build`; a work that was merely not found is not a finding                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         |
+| `paper/refs-fresh`                                                    | error                                        | `paper.tex` → `_build/references.json`                                            | the databases bibtex opened changed since the build checked them (their SHA-256 differs) — run `npx paperlint build`                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   |
+| `paper/refs-checked`                                                  | warn                                         | `paper.tex` → `_build/references.json`                                            | a build recorded the paper's databases and none has checked their references, or the last build could not (no network), or its bibtex typeset a key paperlint's reader did not read (an entry behind `%`, inside `@comment{…}`), or bibtex found a database outside the paper directory (`BIBINPUTS`) — so the two rules above did not run on it. Silent without a record of the build (`paper/sources-fresh` speaks)                                                                                                                                  |
+| `tex/future-promise`                                                  | warn                                         | `paper.tex` and its body files                                                    | a camera-ready build still says "will be released" about something already handed over                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 |
+| `tex/acm-frontmatter-override`                                        | error                                        | `paper.tex`                                                                       | an `acmart` build overrides ACM's front-matter commands and drops template elements from page 1                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        |
+| [`tex/template`](rules/tex/template.md)                               | error                                        | `paper.tex` → `paperlint.json`                                                    | the `\documentclass` is not the preset's `template` class, or lacks an option it names — [page](rules/tex/template.md)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 |
+| [`tex/required-section`](rules/tex/required-section.md)               | error                                        | `paper.tex` → `paperlint.json`                                                    | a section the preset requires (AIDC: «LLM Usage Statement», last) is missing or not where it must be — [page](rules/tex/required-section.md)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           |
+| [`tex/heading-case`](rules/tex/heading-case.md)                       | optional; the AgenticDev preset sets `error` | `paper.tex` and the files it includes                                             | a word in the paper's `\title` or in a `\section`, `\subsection`, `\subsubsection`, `\paragraph` or `\subparagraph` title is not in the style its scope asks: `{ "title", "headings", "levels"? }`, each `chicago-headline` (Conference Publishing's quote of the Chicago Manual of Style), `sentence` (first word only) or `any`. Words that are a preposition in one title and a particle in another (`up`, `on`, `in`) are not read mid-title. **Fixable:** `--fix` — [page](rules/tex/heading-case.md)                                             |
+| [`format/layout-override`](rules/format/layout-override.md)           | error                                        | `paper.tex` → `paperlint.json`                                                    | the source changes the page layout the venue's template sets for the whole document — `geometry`, a layout `\setlength`, `\linespread`, `\baselinestretch` — [page](rules/format/layout-override.md)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   |
+| [`anonymity/identity`](rules/anonymity/identity.md)                   | error                                        | `paper.tex` → `_build/paper.facts.json`                                           | a double-blind venue (`"blind": true`) and no `identity` declared, or a declared name, handle, email or project in the PDF's text, metadata or link targets — [page](rules/anonymity/identity.md)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      |
+| [`tex/venue-leftover`](rules/tex/venue-leftover.md)                   | warn                                         | `paper.tex` → `paperlint.json`                                                    | the text names another shipped venue than the one the paper extends («Submission to VenueA 2026» in a paper now set for VenueB) — [page](rules/tex/venue-leftover.md)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  |
+| [`tex/claim-provenance`](rules/tex/claim-provenance.md)               | warn                                         | `paper.tex`                                                                       | a sentence of the body states a number and does not say whose it is — no citation or link, no _we_/_our_, no `\ref` or "Table 2", no sample ("n = 134", "48 runs") — [page](rules/tex/claim-provenance.md)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             |
+| [`tex/register`](rules/tex/register.md)                               | warn                                         | `paper.tex` and the files it includes                                             | the body runs to a post's register: more than 0.8 sentences per 1000 words open with _And_, _So_, _But_, _Nor_, _Or_ or _Yet_ — the limit is an option — [page](rules/tex/register.md)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 |
+| [`tex/contrast-frames`](rules/tex/contrast-frames.md)                 | warn                                         | `paper.tex` and the files it includes → `paperlint.json`                          | contrast frames (_X, not Y_, _not X but Y_, _rather than_, _instead of_, _as opposed to_) per 10,000 words fall outside the band the venue preset's anchors set (AIDC: 0–10.4, from five accepted ACSAC papers); above it, each frame is reported too — [page](rules/tex/contrast-frames.md)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           |
+| [`tex/claim-emphasis`](rules/tex/claim-emphasis.md)                   | warn                                         | `paper.tex` and the files it includes → `paperlint.json`                          | claims set in bold inside a sentence (six words or more, or holding a number; not a term, not a label opening a paragraph) per 10,000 words fall outside the preset's band (AIDC: 0–17.8); above it, each is reported too — [page](rules/tex/claim-emphasis.md)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        |
+| [`tex/relation-markers`](rules/tex/relation-markers.md)               | warn                                         | `paper.tex` and the files it includes → `paperlint.json`                          | words that name how a sentence relates to the one before (_because_, _therefore_, _however_, _for example_ …) per 10,000 words fall outside the preset's band (AIDC: 25.4–135.0) — the floor that catches relations left to infer — [page](rules/tex/relation-markers.md)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              |
+| `review/frontmatter`                                                  | error                                        | `reviews/*.md`                                                                    | the review's frontmatter fails paperlint's JSON Schema — a `findings` record without `id`/`status`, an unknown field, or an **open** finding with no `cause` (`skill-defect` · `missing-skill` · `hook` · `rule`). A review with no `findings` key is not checked for findings                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         |
+| `sibling/frontmatter`                                                 | warn                                         | `siblings/*.md` (not `README.md`)                                                 | a sibling card's frontmatter has no `read:` saying how much of the competing paper was read (`full` · `abstract` · `none`)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             |
+| `pdf/fresh`                                                           | error                                        | `paper.tex` → `_build/paper.facts.json`                                           | the paper names a venue and the facts cannot be judged: not JSON, a schema other than 3, or they describe a PDF that is gone or differs from the one on disk (its SHA-256)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             |
+| `pdf/profile`                                                         | error                                        | `paper.tex` → `paperlint.json`                                                    | `paperlint.json` is not JSON or has an unknown key, its `extends` does not resolve (not found, a cycle, a chain longer than four, a preset that fails the schema, an npm name), it names no `kind` while the preset has kinds, or names a kind the preset does not have                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                |
+| `pdf/fonts`                                                           | error                                        | `paper.tex` → `_build/paper.facts.json`                                           | a font the pages draw is Type 3 or not embedded, or no font starts with the family the venue preset names for body text (`fonts_text`) or headings (`fonts_title`)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     |
+| `pdf/geometry`                                                        | error                                        | `paper.tex` → `_build/paper.facts.json`                                           | the page width or height is more than `dimTol` (default 0.05 in) off the preset's, or the column count differs                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         |
+| [`format/page-limit`](rules/format/page-limit.md)                     | error                                        | `paper.tex` → `_build/paper.facts.json`                                           | body or reference pages exceed the limits of the paper's kind. With `body_ends_at: "references"` (AIDC) the body ends at the references or the appendix, whichever comes first — found by hyperref's anchors, then the heading line — and the page it ends on counts when body text stands above the heading; with `appendix_in_body` too (MSR) the appendix is body wherever it sits and the reference pages are the ones holding only references; an end it cannot find, or signals that disagree, are reported — [page](rules/format/page-limit.md) |
+| [`pdf/body-size`](rules/pdf/body-size.md)                             | error                                        | `paper.tex` → `_build/paper.facts.json`                                           | the body font size is more than `body_pt_tol` off the preset's, or the reference font size is outside the preset's range widened by `body_pt_tol`. banal reads 0.3 pt above the size the glyphs are set in; checked on five built accepted papers (none reported) and three variants one size off (each reported) — [page](rules/pdf/body-size.md)                                                                                                                                                                                                     |
+| `pdf/measured`                                                        | warn                                         | `paper.tex` → `_build/paper.facts.json`                                           | the paper's `paperlint.json` names no venue preset yet; or it names one and there are no facts (it was not built), or the facts carry no page geometry (banal was not found) — so the checks above did not run                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         |
+| [`talk/profile`](rules/talk/profile.md)                               | error                                        | `paper.tex` → `paperlint.json`                                                    | the paper declares `talk` and names no preset, the preset has no `talk` block, the mode is not one the venue allows, or the venue sets no talk slot for the paper's kind — [page](rules/talk/profile.md)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               |
+| [`talk/required-files`](rules/talk/required-files.md)                 | error                                        | `paper.tex` → `paperlint.json`, the talk folder                                   | a file the venue requires for the paper's talk mode (video, one-slide, captions…) is not in the talk folder — [page](rules/talk/required-files.md)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     |
+| [`talk/undeclared`](rules/talk/undeclared.md)                         | warn                                         | `paper.tex` → the paper's `talk/` folder                                          | an `.mp4` sits in `talk/` and the paper declares no `talk`, so nothing checks it — [page](rules/talk/undeclared.md)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    |
+| [`talk/duration`](rules/talk/duration.md)                             | error                                        | `paper.tex` → the talk video                                                      | the video runs longer than the slot's `talk_s_max`, or its audio track is more than 1 s off the video's length — [page](rules/talk/duration.md)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        |
+| [`talk/duration-floor`](rules/talk/duration-floor.md)                 | warn                                         | `paper.tex` → the talk video                                                      | the video runs shorter than the slot's `talk_s_min` — [page](rules/talk/duration-floor.md)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             |
+| [`talk/video-format`](rules/talk/video-format.md)                     | error                                        | `paper.tex` → the talk video                                                      | the video is not ISO media, is QuickTime where the venue asks for MP4, is under `min_height_px`, or over `max_bytes` — [page](rules/talk/video-format.md)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              |
+| [`talk/one-slide-size`](rules/talk/one-slide-size.md)                 | error                                        | `paper.tex` → the one-slide PNG                                                   | the one-slide image is not the size the paper or the preset states, or not a PNG — [page](rules/talk/one-slide-size.md)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                |
+| [`talk/captions-cover`](rules/talk/captions-cover.md)                 | warn                                         | `paper.tex` → the captions and the video                                          | the captions start late, end early or leave a long gap (uncalibrated thresholds) — [page](rules/talk/captions-cover.md)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                |
+
+**Body files** are the files of the paper's directory that TeX read after `\begin{document}` in the
+last build, as `paperlint build` recorded them in `_build/sources.json` — not a preamble file, not a
+file found only in paperlint's own inputs, not a file the text names but TeX never read (behind
+`\iffalse`), and not any other `.tex` beside the paper (`versions/`). Lint never looks for an include
+itself. Only the `.tex` ones are linted on their own: an included `.bbl` or `.pgf` is a tool's output,
+read into the whole paper where TeX typesets it, but not judged or fixed as prose of its own. A
+finding in a body file is reported at that file and line, and `--fix` edits that file. Which reference
+form is the majority and whether the build is a review build are decided over the whole paper: the
+files the record lists, spliced where their includes stand, each ended as TeX ends a file's last
+line. A paper with no record, or one it has changed since, is `paper.tex` alone, and
+[`paper/sources-fresh`](rules/paper/sources-fresh.md) says the files it includes went unlinted.
 
 `tex/required-section` requires AIDC's «LLM Usage Statement» **always**. ACSAC asks for it «if
 LLMs are used», which no rule can know; an author who used none says so in the section
@@ -88,7 +92,8 @@ Also here: .06 % eslint-disable-line paper/leading-zero -- quoted too
 % eslint-enable paper/section-word
 ```
 
-This works inside the `filecontents` bibliography of `paper.tex` too, above the entry:
+This works inside the `filecontents` bibliography of `paper.tex` too, above the entry — and, for
+`bib/reachable-entry`, on the line above an entry in a `.bib` file:
 
 ```latex
 % eslint-disable-next-line bib/reachable-entry -- an invited talk, no recording exists
@@ -268,10 +273,6 @@ The paper body is `paper.tex`, and it gets three rules of its own: `paper/typogr
 run on it but judge the files beside it. The scorecard and the review notes are Markdown files, and
 the other five rules read those.
 
-A Markdown body (`paper.md`, or `draft.md`) is still read today and gets only the two `paper/`
-rules, which is why they list it above. Markdown papers are deprecated and being removed
-([#57](https://github.com/zernie/paperlint/issues/57)); do not start a new one.
-
 ## The scorecard's `bytes:` and `sourceBytes:`
 
 **When you submit,** copy the PDF and `paper.tex` you sent into the paper's `versions/` folder and

package/eslint-rules/latex-language.harness.mjs

@@ -27,10 +27,10 @@
  * registry) through this language and froze their finding counts on three real papers
  * (35 · 52 · 15 at the 2026-08-27 measurement, later 32 · 53 · 20 after captions became
  * visible on 2026-09-06). None of those modules was extracted, and the papers are private, so:
- *   - the "rules see LaTeX the way they saw markdown" half is GONE. What is left proves the
+ *   - the "rules read the projection correctly" half is GONE. What is left proves the
  *     projection is correct, not that a downstream rule consumes it correctly;
- *   - the config half that checked rule-set PARITY between `.tex` and `paper.md`, and the
- *     list of rules explicitly switched `off` on `.tex` WITH A REASON, is GONE with the rules;
+ *   - the config half that listed the rules explicitly switched `off` on `.tex` WITH A
+ *     REASON is GONE with the rules;
  *   - the only rule that still runs through this language here is `tex/future-promise`, and it
  *     reads the file from disk rather than the projection — so end-to-end it proves the
  *     language parses and dispatches, not that the projection is what a rule reads.

package/eslint-rules/latex-language.ts

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 /**
- * AN ESLint LANGUAGE FOR `.tex` — so that the ~30 prose rules of a paper pipeline read papers
- * written in LaTeX, and not only papers written in markdown. The spike it grew out of lives in
- * the source corpus as a coverage measurement plus an executable prototype kept as history.
+ * AN ESLint LANGUAGE FOR `.tex` — so that prose rules read a paper's LaTeX source. The spike it
+ * grew out of lives in the source corpus as a coverage measurement plus an executable prototype
+ * kept as history.
  *
  * ── CONSTRUCTION: two legs ──────────────────────────────────────────────────
  *  1. AST — a flat mdast-like root (heading / code / html / strong) with REAL positions taken
@@ -9,9 +9,8 @@
  *  2. TEXT — a projection of `.tex` into a markdown-like view THAT PRESERVES LENGTHS AND
  *     OFFSETS: comments, the preamble, math, service macros and code environments are blanked
  *     with spaces; `\section{X}` projects to `##      X `, `\texttt{X}` to `` `X` ``.
- *     The point: a rule receives what it used to see in markdown and KNOWS NOTHING about
- *     LaTeX, while the position of a finding points into the real `.tex`. Not one rule was
- *     rewritten for LaTeX.
+ *     The point: a rule reads a plain, heading-marked text and KNOWS NOTHING about LaTeX, while
+ *     the position of a finding points into the real `.tex`.
  *
  * ── HEADING SYNTHESIS: not decoration, but the repair of seven silent rules ──
  * Measured 2026-08-26 across three real papers: NONE of them has a `Limitations` /
@@ -47,10 +46,8 @@
  *     `95   of it, costing   5 and A  B`. This matters: a word splitter counts `%` as part of
  *     a word, and a plain-language rule counts NUMBERS — so the percent sign detaches from
  *     its number. Not fixed: three exceptions would have to be written and pinned.
- *  3. THRESHOLDS WERE CALIBRATED ON MARKDOWN. 60 / 350 / 700 words were taken from a markdown
- *     paper. The projection counts differently: the same place gave 1239 words before macro
- *     blanking and 1208 after — a 2.5% discrepancy. The discrepancy is ACCEPTED deliberately;
- *     the thresholds were not recalibrated.
+ *  3. MACRO BLANKING SHIFTS WORD COUNTS. The same place gave 1239 words before macro blanking
+ *     and 1208 after — a 2.5% discrepancy, ACCEPTED deliberately.
  *  4. ONE FILE AT A TIME. `\input` / `\include` are in OPAQUE: the projection of `paper.tex`
  *     does not hold what they pull in. `paperlint lint` hands ESLint each file the paper includes
  *     from its body as a file of its own (src/paper-includes.ts), and a file with no `document`
@@ -546,9 +543,9 @@ export function texToMdast(
       // 🔴 AND SYMMETRICALLY ON THE LEFT (found by a run on 2026-08-27, not by reading). A
       // comment that follows a line of text directly, rather than a blank line, comes back from
       // unified-latex with a position starting at the PREVIOUS newline instead of at `%`.
-      // Consumers recognise a comment by its first character (`<!--` in markdown, `%` in
-      // LaTeX), so such a node was not a comment to them: notes above bold appendix lead-ins
-      // never bound, and the block-note / block-verdict rules could NEVER fire. Measured:
+      // Consumers recognise a comment by its first character (`%`), so such a node was not a
+      // comment to them: notes above bold appendix lead-ins never bound, and the block-note /
+      // block-verdict rules could NEVER fire. Measured:
       // 2 out of 2 blocks were reported as "no note AT ALL" while the notes were right there.
       let cs = pos.start.offset;
       while (cs < ce && src[cs] !== "%") cs++;

package/eslint-rules/paper-context.ts

@@ -4,12 +4,13 @@
  * ESLint lints one file at a time. A paper whose body is in `sections/*.tex` is several files, and
  * two questions are about the paper, not the file: which reference form (`Fig.` or `Figure`) the
  * paper uses most, and whether the build `paper.tex` declares is a review build. The CLI knows the
- * files (it resolves the includes the way the build does, `bodyFiles` in src/tex-paper.ts) and puts
- * them under `settings.paperlint.paper`
- * for `paper.tex` and for every file it includes. A rule reads the other files from disk.
+ * files — the `.tex` files TeX read after `\begin{document}` in the last build, from the record the
+ * build wrote (`paperBodies` in src/paper-includes.ts) — and puts them under
+ * `settings.paperlint.paper` for `paper.tex` and for every one of them. A rule reads the other files
+ * from disk. A paper with no record, or a stale one, is `paper.tex` alone.
  *
- * No setting — a file linted outside `paperlint lint`, or a markdown paper — means a paper of one
- * file: every rule decides on the file it was handed, as it did before.
+ * No setting — a file linted outside `paperlint lint` — means a paper of one file: every rule
+ * decides on the file it was handed, as it did before.
  */
 import { readFileSync } from "node:fs";
 import { z } from "zod";