paper-latex-sanitizer

Paper LaTeX sanitizer

Internal deterministic pre-publication sanitizer for meta-paper-write.

It runs before the length, citation, and publication-quality gates.

The sanitizer performs only two bounded repairs:

• normalize U+2011, U+2013, and isolated U+2014 punctuation to LaTeX-safe

ASCII equivalents while preserving paired Chinese em dashes (——);

• when EVIDENCE_STATUS: not_supplied, replace concrete forecast magnitudes

in results-facing sections with TBD / 待实验确定. Planned setup values

remain intact. A declared result threshold remains intact only when the same

magnitude is present in the authoritative user request/paper contract;

labeling an invented number as a target or hypothesis does not preserve it;

• remove only the known generated figure_placeholder_template or

table_placeholder_template input line when the same manuscript already

contains the corresponding inlined figure/table environment. Arbitrary user

\input{...} commands and non-redundant template inputs remain untouched.

For an artifact-backed package, the referenced MANUSCRIPT_PATH is replaced

atomically and the compact manifest is returned. Inline manuscript packages

are normalized in the returned package. This step is not a quality gate: the

independent paper-quality-gate must still run afterwards and block any

unsupported semantic claims that remain.