Action to compile academic papers in LaTeX

LaTeXmk Action

This action compiles LaTeX docs to PDF using latexmk with a minimal TeXLive image.

Inputs

• tex_files

The main LaTeX file or a list of such files to be compiled.

• compiler

Default to latexmk, can be changed to latex or pdflatex.

• options

Default options for latexmk is set to -pdf -cd -file-line-error -halt-on-error -interaction=nonstopmode. The options should be changed correspondingly when the compiler has been changed.

Example

name: Build LaTeX document
on: [push]
jobs:
  build_latex:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Set up Git repository
        uses: actions/checkout@v2
      - name: Compile LaTeX document
        uses: fredqi/tl-action@mini-v2
        with:
          tex_files: |
            main.tex

References:

[1] https://github.com/xu-cheng/latex-action