adding documentation PDF file

docs/make.jl

@@ -1,34 +1,62 @@
 using Documenter, Dynare
 
+# A flag to check if we are running in a GitHub action.
+const _IS_GITHUB_ACTIONS = get(ENV, "GITHUB_ACTIONS", "false") == "true"
+
+# Pass --pdf to build the PDF. On GitHub actions, we always build the PDF.
+const _PDF = findfirst(isequal("--pdf"), ARGS) !== nothing || _IS_GITHUB_ACTIONS
+_PAGES =[
+    "Home" => "index.md",
+    "Installation and Configuration" => "installation-and-configuration.md",
+    "Running Dynare" => "running-dynare.md",
+    "Model File" => [
+        "Syntax elements" => "model-file/syntax-elements.md",
+        "Variables and parameters declaration" => "model-file/variable-declarations.md",
+        "Model declaration" => "model-file/model-declaration.md",
+        #            "Initial and terminal conditions" => "model-file/initial-terminal-conditions.md",
+        "Steady state" => "model-file/steady-state.md",
+        "Shocks on exgogenous variables" => "model-file/shocks.md",
+        "Deterministic simulations" => "model-file/deterministic-simulations.md",
+        "Local approximation" => "model-file/local-approxiation.md",
+        "State space, filtering and smoothing" => "model-file/filtersmoother.md",
+        "Estimation" => "model-file/estimation.md",
+        "Forecasting" => "model-file/forecasting.md",
+        "Reporting"=> "model-file/reporting.md",
+        #            "Optimal policy" => "model-file/optimal-policy.md",
+    ],
+    "Macroprocessing language" => "macroprocessor.md"     
+]
+
+# Needed to make Documenter think that there is a PDF in the right place when
+# link checking. Inn production we replace this by running the LaTeX build.
+write(joinpath(@__DIR__, "src", "Dynare.pdf"), "")
+
 makedocs(
     sitename="Dynare.jl",
     format=Documenter.HTML(; prettyurls=get(ENV, "CI", nothing) == "true"),
     # doctest = false,
-    pages=[
-        "Home" => "index.md",
-        "Installation and Configuration" => "installation-and-configuration.md",
-        "Running Dynare" => "running-dynare.md",
-        "Model File" => [
-            "Syntax elements" => "model-file/syntax-elements.md",
-            "Variables and parameters declaration" => "model-file/variable-declarations.md",
-            "Model declaration" => "model-file/model-declaration.md",
-#            "Initial and terminal conditions" => "model-file/initial-terminal-conditions.md",
-            "Steady state" => "model-file/steady-state.md",
-            "Shocks on exgogenous variables" => "model-file/shocks.md",
-            "Deterministic simulations" => "model-file/deterministic-simulations.md",
-            "Local approximation" => "model-file/local-approxiation.md",
-            "State space, filtering and smoothing" => "model-file/filtersmoother.md",
-            "Estimation" => "model-file/estimation.md",
-            "Forecasting" => "model-file/forecasting.md",
-            "Reporting"=> "model-file/reporting.md",
-#            "Optimal policy" => "model-file/optimal-policy.md",
-        ],
-        "Macroprocessing language" => "macroprocessor.md"     
-    ],
+    pages = _PAGES,
     pagesonly = true,
 
 )
 
+latex_platform = _IS_GITHUB_ACTIONS ? "docker" : "native"
+makedocs(
+    sitename = "Dynare",
+    format = Documenter.LaTeX(; platform = latex_platform),
+    build = "latex_build",
+    pages = _PAGES,
+    pagesonly = true,
+    debug = true,
+    )
+    # Hack for deploying: copy the pdf (and only the PDF) into the HTML build
+    # directory! We don't want to copy everything in `latex_build` because it
+    # includes lots of extraneous LaTeX files.
+     cp(
+        joinpath(@__DIR__, "latex_build", "Dynare.pdf"),
+        joinpath(@__DIR__, "build", "Dynare.pdf");
+        force = true,
+    )
 deploydocs(
     repo="github.com/DynareJulia/Dynare.jl.git", push_preview=true
 )

docs/src/index.md

@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 # The Dynare Julia Reference Manual
 # Introduction 
 
+!!! note This documentation is also available in PDF format: [Dynare.pdf](Dynare.pdf).
+
 DynareJulia is a rewriting of Dynare (https://www.dynare.org) that was initially written in
 Gauss in 1994 and rewritten in Matlab around 2000.