I have to create a one year agenda which shape would be an A6 booklet.
So far, I tryed most of tutorials I found about calendars makings (I did not find a lot of them), I focused mainly on a Evan A. Sultanik's calendar package as a start.
I have two problems with this idea:
1, I can not adjust counter system over the pages that are splitted all over 4 A4 pages, both sides (see below)
2, the counter is not an automatic system, which means if I success for one year, I have to modify, data by data every single lines of the .tex file.
Of course, I suppose there are specific programs that can make exactly what I'm describing here (e.g. all agenda books found in supermarket), but I know
nothing about it, neither in printing industry. Perhaps someone on this forum have some enlightments ?
Even if I don't have book making industry skills, I realised that pattern:
The whole book would contain on 4 A4 sheets (A, B, C, D), organized as follow:
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A: top - I | B. 1 flyleaf - 32 Rs oct2 | F. 2 ? - 31 Ls oct1
bot - II | B. 3 ? - 30 Ls oct1 | F. 4 Ls sep1 - 29 Ls sep1
B: top - III | B. 5 Ls sep1 - 28 Ls sep1 | F. 6 Ls oct1 - 27 Rs agu2
bot - IV | B. 7 Ls oct1 - 26 Ls agu1 | F. 8 Ls nov1 - 25 Ls jul1
C: top - V | B. 9 Rs nov2 - 24 Ls jul1 | F. 10 Ls dec1 - 23 Rs jun2
bot - VI | B. 11 Rs dec2 - 22 Ls jun1 | F. 12 Ls jan1 - 21 Rs may2
D: top - VII | B. 13 Rs jan2 - 20 Ls may1 | F. 14 Ls fev1 - 19 Rs avr2
bot - VIII | B. 15 Rs fev2 - 18 Ls avr1 | F. 16 Ls mar1 - 17 Rs mar2- top ou bot indicates the top or bottom half of the sheet should be printed
- I to VIII indicates the serie to print
- F. for Front; and B. for Back precise the concerned side of the sheet
- Ls for Left side indicates the left pattern (from monday to wednesday + a margin
- Rs for Right side. Right pattern (from thursday to sunday)
- dec1 for december 1, on the left part of the sheet
- dec2 for december 2, on the right part of the sheet
- flyleaf
- ? for some unused space (I probably use it for a global calendar)
- values are marks to ordonate each parts of the calendar.
The two sides patterns should look like this:
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Ls : Rs :
__________________________________ _________________________________
|January |
| 1 |
| _|monday_|tuesday|wednes_| _|thurda_|fryday_|saturd_|sunday_|
| | | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | | |
| |_|_______|_______|_______| |_______|_______|_______|_______|
| | | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | | |
| |_|_______|_______|_______| |_______|_______|_______|_______|
| | | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | | |
| |_|_______|_______|_______| |_______|_______|_______|_______|
| | | | | | | | | | |
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| |_|_______|_______|_______| |_______|_______|_______|_______|
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| |_|_______|_______|_______| |_______|_______|_______|_______|
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| |_|_______|_______|_______| _|_______|_______|_______|_______|
| |
|_________________________________ ________________________________|
In the end, the idea would be to have a .tex (or a script) to ba able to input new variables for further editions of the calendar (such as leap years, marking holidays, lunar months markings, etc.)
Here I display the Sultanik's template:
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%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
% Monthly Calendar
% LaTeX Template
%
% This template has been downloaded from:
% http://www.latextemplates.com
%
% Original calendar style author:
% Evan Sultanik (http://www.sultanik.com/LaTeX_calendar_style)
%
% Important note:
% This template requires the calendar.sty file to be in the same directory as the
% .tex file. The calendar.sty file provides the necessary structure to create the
% calendar.
%
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
%----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
% PACKAGES AND OTHER DOCUMENT CONFIGURATIONS
%----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
\documentclass[landscape,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{calendar} % Use the calendar.sty style
\usepackage[landscape,margin=0.5in]{geometry}
\begin{document}
\pagestyle{empty} % Removes the page number from the bottom of the page
\noindent
\StartingDayNumber=1 % Calendar starting day, default of 1 means Sunday, 2 for Monday, etc
%----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
% MONTH AND YEAR SECTION
%----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
\begin{center}
\textsc{\LARGE Month}\\ % Month
\textsc{\large Year} % Year
\end{center}
%----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
\begin{calendar}{\hsize}
%----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
% BLANK DAYS BEFORE THE BEGINNING OF THE CALENDAR
%----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
% This part is very finicky.
% It defines the number of blank days before the first day of the month.
% If you need more than 4 (i.e. 1st starts on a Friday in a 31 days month), then you have two options:
% 1) You can uncomment another one or two \BlankDay's below which will make a new week (6 total)
% which makes the calendar too big for one page,
% remedy this by decreasing the size of each day by replacing 2.5cm below with a smaller number.
% 2) Make the spill-over days start at the top left of the calendar
% (i.e. the calendar starts with 31 then a few days blank then 1, 2, 3, etc).
% The second option can be configured by uncommenting the \setcounter below:
%\setcounter{calendardate}{31} % Begin the count with 31 so the top left day is 31;
% this can be changed to 29 or 30 as required
%\day{}{\vspace{2.5cm}} % 31 - add another line identical to this if starting at 30 or earlier
% You will need to comment out the 31 in the NUMBERED DAYS AND CALENDAR CONTENT
% section below for this as well as commenting out one of the \BlankDay's below.
% Play around with it and you will get it.
\BlankDay
\BlankDay
\BlankDay
%\BlankDay
%\BlankDay
%\BlankDay
%----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
% NUMBERED DAYS AND CALENDAR CONTENT
%----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
% These are the numbered days in the template - if there are less than 31 days simply comment out the bottom lines.
% \vspace{2.5cm} is only there to provide an even look to the calendar where each day is 2.5cm tall,
% it can be changed or removed to automatically adjust to the day in the week with the most content
\setcounter{calendardate}{1} % Start the date counter at 1
\day{Work}{10am Meeting with Boss \\[6pt] 12pm Meeting with Group} % 1 - Example of content
\day{}{\vspace{2.5cm}} % 2
\day{}{\vspace{2.5cm}} % 3
\day{}{\vspace{2.5cm}} % 4
\day{}{\vspace{2.5cm}} % 5
\day{}{\vspace{2.5cm}} % 6
\day{}{\vspace{2.5cm}} % 7
\day{}{\vspace{2.5cm}} % 8
\day{}{\vspace{2.5cm}} % 9
\day{}{\vspace{2.5cm}} % 10
\day{}{\vspace{2.5cm}} % 11
\day{}{\vspace{2.5cm}} % 12
\day{}{\vspace{2.5cm}} % 13
\day{}{\vspace{2.5cm}} % 14
\day{}{\vspace{2.5cm}} % 15
\day{}{\vspace{2.5cm}} % 16
\day{}{\vspace{2.5cm}} % 17
\day{}{\vspace{2.5cm}} % 18
\day{}{\vspace{2.5cm}} % 19
\day{}{\vspace{2.5cm}} % 20
\day{}{\vspace{2.5cm}} % 21
\day{}{\vspace{2.5cm}} % 22
\day{}{\vspace{2.5cm}} % 23
\day{}{\vspace{2.5cm}} % 24
\day{}{\vspace{2.5cm}} % 25
\day{}{\vspace{2.5cm}} % 26
\day{}{\vspace{2.5cm}} % 27
\day{}{\vspace{2.5cm}} % 28
\day{}{\vspace{2.5cm}} % 29
\day{}{\vspace{2.5cm}} % 30
\day{}{\vspace{2.5cm}} % 31
% Un-comment the \BlankDay below if the bottom line of the calendar is missing
%\BlankDay
% Un-comment to start counting again after 31
%\setcounter{calendardate}{1}
%\day{}{\vspace{2.5cm}} % 1
%\day{}{\vspace{2.5cm}} % 2
%\day{}{\vspace{2.5cm}} % 3
%----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
\finishCalendar
\end{calendar}
\end{document}