papersmith 0.1.3

Programmatic Word document generation with LaTeX equations, style presets, citations, charts, and MCP server

🔨 papersmith

Programmatic Word document generation with LaTeX equations, academic formatting, citations, charts, and MCP server.

papersmith wraps python-docx into a fluent, high-level API that handles all the boilerplate for professional document generation. It bundles its own LaTeX-to-OMML equation pipeline, citation management with multiple styles, chart generation, metadata scrubbing, and exposes an MCP server so any LLM can generate documents directly.

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✨ Features

• 📝 Fluent Document API — Create professional Word documents with a clean, chainable API

• 📐 LaTeX Equations — Inline $...$ and display $$...$$ equations rendered as native OMML (editable in Word)

• 🎨 Style Presets — Academic, modern, report, formal, minimal — or define your own

• 📚 Citations & Bibliography — APA, IEEE, Harvard, MLA, Chicago styles with BibTeX import

• 📊 Charts & Infographics — Bar, line, pie, scatter charts via matplotlib, embedded as high-res images

• 🔍 Live Editing — Open, navigate, find/replace, and modify existing documents

• 💬 Review Support — Comments, footnotes, endnotes, and tracked changes

• 📋 Metadata Management — Set or scrub author, dates, revision info — leave no generation fingerprints

• 🤖 MCP Server — 25+ tools for LLM-powered document generation (works with Claude Desktop, Cursor, etc.)

• ⌨️ CLI Interface — Generate documents from the command line

• 🔌 LLM Provider Abstraction — Swap between OpenAI, Anthropic, Google with a config change

🚀 Quick Start

Installation

# Full install (all features included)

pip install papersmith

Create Your First Document

from papersmith import SmithDocument



doc = SmithDocument(preset="academic")

doc.add_cover_page(

    title="Advanced Algorithms: Lab Solutions",

    author="Jane Smith",

    institution="MIT"

)

doc.add_heading("Question 1: Merge Sort Analysis", level=2)

doc.add_text("The time complexity of merge sort is $O(n \\log n)$.")

doc.add_equation(r"T(n) = 2T\left(\frac{n}{2}\right) + \Theta(n)")

doc.add_table(

    headers=["Algorithm", "Best", "Average", "Worst"],

    rows=[

        ["Merge Sort", "$O(n \\log n)$", "$O(n \\log n)$", "$O(n \\log n)$"],

        ["Quick Sort", "$O(n \\log n)$", "$O(n \\log n)$", "$O(n^2)$"],

    ]

)

doc.set_metadata(author="Jane Smith", scrub=True)

doc.save("solutions.docx")

Citations

from papersmith import SmithDocument



doc = SmithDocument(preset="academic")

doc.citations.style = "ieee"



doc.citations.add_source("knuth1997",

    author="Donald E. Knuth",

    title="The Art of Computer Programming",

    year=1997,

    publisher="Addison-Wesley",

)



doc.add_heading("Literature Review")

doc.add_text("Sorting algorithms are well studied {cite:knuth1997}.")

doc.add_bibliography()

doc.save("paper.docx")

MCP Server (for LLM Integration)

# Start MCP server for Claude Desktop / Cursor

papersmith mcp-server --transport stdio

Claude Desktop config (claude_desktop_config.json):

{

  "mcpServers": {

    "papersmith": {

      "command": "papersmith",

      "args": ["mcp", "--transport", "stdio"]

    }

  }

}

VS Code workspace MCP config: put the same server definition in .vscode/mcp.json.

This repository includes a working example at examples/mcp_quickstart.py.

📦 Installation

pip install papersmith installs the full runtime feature set: documents, equations, citations, charts, PDF export, MCP, CLI, and LLM provider support.

For development tools only, install pip install -e ".[dev]".

🛠️ CLI Usage

# Generate a document from markdown

papersmith convert notes.md -o notes.docx --preset academic



# Generate with LLM assistance

papersmith generate questions.md -o solutions.docx --provider openai



# Scrub metadata from a document

papersmith scrub report.docx --author "John Doe"



# List available presets

papersmith presets



# Start MCP server

papersmith mcp-server --transport stdio

📖 Documentation

Full documentation is available at imnb57.github.io/papersmith.

🤝 Contributing

We welcome contributions! See CONTRIBUTING.md for guidelines.

# Clone and install for development

git clone https://github.com/imnb57/papersmith.git

cd papersmith

pip install -e ".[dev]"



# Run tests

pytest



# Lint and format

ruff check src/ tests/

ruff format src/ tests/



# Type check

mypy src/papersmith/

🚀 Releasing

This repository already includes a GitHub Actions release workflow at .github/workflows/release.yml.

To publish without Twine, tag a release and push it:

git tag v0.1.1

git push origin v0.1.1

The workflow uses PyPI trusted publishing, so no local Twine account or API token is needed once the PyPI project is configured for this GitHub repository.

Claiming papersmith on PyPI

1. Sign in to your PyPI account.

2. Open the papersmith project page on PyPI, or create the project by publishing the first release.

3. In the project settings, add a trusted publisher for this repository: imnb57/papersmith.

4. Keep the GitHub Actions workflow environment name as pypi to match the PyPI trusted publisher entry.

5. Tag v0.1.1 and push it once the trusted publisher is saved.

📄 License

MIT License. See LICENSE for details.