LaTeX Calendar Generator
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.
/usr/lib/ruby/2.7.0/rubygems/dependency.rb:311:in `to_specs': Could not find 'coderay' (>= 0) among 56 total gem(s) (Gem::MissingSpecError) Checked in 'GEM_PATH=/.gem/ruby/2.7.0:/var/lib/gems/2.7.0:/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.7.0:/usr/share/rubygems-integration/2.7.0:/usr/share/rubygems-integration/all:/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/rubygems-integration/2.7.0:/home/johnch/.gems', execute `gem env` for more information from /usr/lib/ruby/2.7.0/rubygems/dependency.rb:323:in `to_spec' from /usr/lib/ruby/2.7.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_gem.rb:62:in `gem' from ./coderay:24:in `'
Happy new year!