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name: build and release PDFs
# Pull requests build only, so a merge is never the first time this workflow runs
# against a change. Pushes to main build and publish.
on:
push:
branches: [main]
pull_request:
branches: [main]
workflow_dispatch:
# The release step creates tags and releases.
permissions:
contents: write
# Per-ref, so a PR build and a main build never cancel each other. Within one ref,
# superseding runs win: two merges in quick succession would otherwise race to move
# the `latest` tag, and the older build is the one worth dropping.
concurrency:
group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }}
cancel-in-progress: true
jobs:
pdf:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
env:
PANDOC_VERSION: "3.10.1"
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v4
- name: Install pandoc, XeLaTeX and fonts
run: |
# apt's pandoc is too old for --syntax-highlighting, so take the upstream deb.
curl -fsSLO "https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/releases/download/${PANDOC_VERSION}/pandoc-${PANDOC_VERSION}-1-amd64.deb"
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y \
"./pandoc-${PANDOC_VERSION}-1-amd64.deb" \
texlive-xetex texlive-latex-recommended texlive-latex-extra \
fonts-texgyre fonts-texgyre-math fonts-dejavu-mono
rm -f "pandoc-${PANDOC_VERSION}-1-amd64.deb"
pandoc --version | head -1
xelatex --version | head -1
# fontspec resolves the -V font names through fontconfig. If one is missing it
# falls back silently in some cases, so check here rather than ship a PDF set in
# the wrong typeface. Names must match tools/build.sh and tools/header.tex.
- name: Verify fonts are visible to fontconfig
run: |
fc-cache -f > /dev/null
for font in "TeX Gyre Pagella" "TeX Gyre Heros" "DejaVu Sans Mono" "TeX Gyre Pagella Math"; do
if fc-list -f '%{family[0]}\n' | grep -qxF "$font"; then
echo "ok: $font"
else
echo "::error::font not installed: $font"
exit 1
fi
done
- name: Build PDFs
run: |
mkdir -p build
for doc in perception-guide math-primer notation; do
echo "::group::$doc.md"
tools/build.sh "$doc.md" "build/$doc.pdf"
echo "::endgroup::"
done
ls -lh build
# check.py is a heuristic linter and always exits 0 by design, so this is a
# report on the job summary, not a gate on the release.
- name: Linter report
run: python3 tools/check.py >> "$GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY"
# On a PR the PDFs are the check: download them from the run's Artifacts section.
# Pushes to main skip this — the release below is the durable copy.
- name: Upload PDFs as a build artifact
if: github.event_name == 'pull_request'
uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
with:
name: pdfs
path: build/*.pdf
if-no-files-found: error
retention-days: 14
- name: Publish rolling "latest" release
if: github.event_name != 'pull_request'
env:
GH_TOKEN: ${{ github.token }}
run: |
{
echo "PDFs built from \`${GITHUB_SHA:0:7}\` on $(date -u '+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M UTC')."
echo
echo "Latest commit: $(git log -1 --pretty='%s')"
} > "$RUNNER_TEMP/notes.md"
# Delete and recreate so the `latest` tag moves to this commit. The release
# may not exist on the first run, hence the `|| true`.
gh release delete latest --yes --cleanup-tag || true
gh release create latest \
--target "$GITHUB_SHA" \
--title "Perception Handbook — latest build" \
--notes-file "$RUNNER_TEMP/notes.md" \
--latest \
build/perception-guide.pdf \
build/math-primer.pdf \
build/notation.pdf