LaTeX Calendar Generator
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My wife is crafting together a calendar full of family photos, and she asked me to print off some simple 2016 calendar grids that she found online. I looked at the templates and vomited. They had URLs on them.
Because I suffer from developerism, I asked my wife if she’d let me try and generate some calendar pages for her. She agreed and even sat and watched me code up the script that I share below. She is rarely the direct benefactor of my career and skill set, and we will forever treasure this night when she watched me code up a calendar generator. Especially when we run it each year for the rest of our lives.
A page from the end results looks some like this:
The generator is written in Ruby and its output is LaTeX source, which can be fed into a LaTeX interpreter like pdflatex.
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Happy new year!