Is anyone working on something like the LaTeX tikz Kalender?

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Hi,

I am looking for something like the tikz kalender.

In other words an annual calendar, which calculates itself according to the year, fits 6 months on an A4 in landscape, and takes import files (perhaps in YAML or CSV) for the immovable holidays, for the movable holidays, and a number of files to be loaded, for example, travel dates vacation and one for names.

Each of those file entries should have a fill color associated with it.

Obviously one would put the same color for each holiday, probably the same as one uses for Sundays. A lighter color variation of Sundays for the Saturdays.

And in the other files the colors are manually assigned to the pairings.

See the CTAN Example.

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It’s not the layout you’re looking for, but I did a proof of concept for a calendar a while ago: Calendar Experiment

What this demonstrates is

  • determining the days in a year (i.e. respecting leap years)
  • determining the week numbers and weeks containing days of each month
  • localizing month names (weekday names are hard coded; not sure if I couldn’t make it work or just forgot to fix it though)
  • special styling of holidays read from a list

I think this could well serve as a basis or inspiration for a calendar like you desire.

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