davidjpurser / siglog

SIGLOG Monthly code

This project is now archived. The new coordinator took over from February 2024, see the new repository here.

SIGLOG Monthly Newsletter Generator

• Given a newsletter in the format described below, in a file called 209-anything.txt
• Use python3 process.py 209 to compile
• Then run python3 html.py to generate the webpage
• Then run python3 html.py email to generate the email
• Then run python3 tex.py to generate the tex

Format

# For the master render date
  -dd date 

# For verbatim dates to be added (from previous newsletters)
  -dM Name: date


Acronym: Title
  Meta data
  Meta data
Type of Announcement # first word determines TOC (CALL FOR ..., JOBS, ANNOUNCEMENT)
* ELEMENT
  continuation of element
* Other element
  continuation of element
  - Sub list
  - Sub list
* Yet another element (Perhaps about dates!)
  -d Date name: date  # Preferred format Mon Day, Year. Shown only here
  -dH Date name: date  # Acronym: date (Date name) goes in special dates header
  -dv Date name: verbatim date # System will not try to parse the date (necessary for date ranges)

Another Acronym: Another Title that comes after at least one clear line
  etc!

Non-standard Dependencies

• dateparser from pip
• css-inliner from here