CatScan Latex

This is the LaTeX checker developed for IPAC'25. The initial release perform a series of simple checks for common issues in bibitems. This is due to this section typically requiring the most attention by editors.

Structure

1. finder is the document parser.
2. checker performs the detection of issues
3. main handles generating an output. Including generating a suitable summary to be used as the comment in indico. This uses google's Gemini AI agent.
4. stats is directly executable, for analysing the impact of changes against real world papers.

Generating the baseline stats

Statistics are generated on example files to gauge the impact of changes to the checks.

To generate a new baseline (stats/details.csv and stats/summary.csv), run the following from the project root

go run stats/stats.go

You'll need some tex files in examples/

The recommendation is to run this before then after code changes to see the impact your changes make in the real world.