Week Calendar

Print a large calendar of each week for a number of years. Sometimes this sort of thing is called a Memento Mori calendar or life calendar. I wanted a calendar with boxes big enough to write in.

Example of a 36x24 inch calendar starting in the year 2000 for 50 years.

Since a year is actually a little more than 52 weeks, you'll notice that some years are missing a 53rd week. Feel free to enjoy the extra "leap week" not on the calendar.

Generate calendar

Install TeX, then run

lualatex calendar.tex

to generate calendar.pdf.

There are a few settings you can adjust in the Lua code:

  local print_dates = true -- should dates be printed in every square?
  local year_one_line = true -- should the year in the left column be on one line?
  local paper_width = 36 -- in inches: keep in sync with the geometry command above
  local paper_height = 24 -- in inches: keep in sync with the geometry command above
  local margin = 1 -- in inches: keep in sync with the geometry command above

  local start = 2000 -- year of first row
  local years = 50 -- how many years

If you change the vertical size of the calendar, you'll need to adjust the box height manually. You can uncomment the showframe option to the geometry package to better see how much vertical space you have while making this adjustment.

  local box_height = .293