Pandoctylus

A crazy and opinionated way of generating documents.

Installation

pip install pandoctylus

Use

Check out the example project in examples/project1 to understand how to make a document. Key ingredients:

• define the document as yaml file in docs/ sub-dir
• create or pick an existing jinja template and refernece it in the yaml file
• create or pick an existing docx template and reference it in the yaml file
• run the tool:

  python pandoctylus/pandoctylus.py \
    --root-dir examples/project1 \
    --output-dir ./output

• enjoy the generated docs in ./output

Development

This project uses modern Python packaging with pyproject.toml. To set up the development environment:

1. Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/yourusername/pandoctylus.git
cd pandoctylus

2. Create a virtual environment and install development dependencies:

uv venv pandoctylus-venv
source .pandoctylus-venv/bin/activate 
uv pip install -e ".[dev]"

3. Run tests:

pytest

Packaging and Publishing

To build and publish the package to PyPI:

1. Install build tools:

uv pip install build twine

2. Build the package:

python -m build

3. Verify the distributions:

python -m twine check dist/*

4. Upload to PyPI:

python -m twine upload dist/*

The package will be available at https://pypi.org/project/pandoctylus/

Features

• Generate multiple documents from shared Markdown and YAML and a docx template.

License

MIT License