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+compile_latex:
+  image: aergus/latex # the docker image by aergus https://hub.docker.com/r/aergus/latex/
+  stage: build
+  variables:
+    GIT_SUBMODULE_STRATEGY: recursive
+  script:
+    # the following script requires bash
+    # when editing, be careful, not to use any colons since they mess up the yaml parser!
+    # compile all the PDFs you are interested in:
+    - verb() { echo -e "\e[32;1m===== $* =====\e[0m" ; }
+    - failed=( )
+    - compile_tex() { latexmk -f -cd -pdf "$1" ; }
+    # activate the following line if you use a custom makefile
+    #- compile_tex() { make "${1%%.tex}.pdf" ; }
+    - mapfile -t gitfiles < <(git ls-files)
+    - mapfile -d $'\0' -t texfiles < <(grep -lZ -d skip --include '*.tex' -E '^[^%]*\\documentclass' "${gitfiles[@]}")
+    - for t in "${texfiles[@]}" ; do verb "Compiling $t" ; compile_tex "$t"  || failed+=( "$t" ) ;  done
+    - git ls-files -z | xargs -0 rm -v -f # remove all tracked files such that they are not included in the artifacts
+    - echo "Successful Compilation Coverage $(((${#texfiles[@]}-${#failed[@]})*10000/${#texfiles[@]}))" | sed 's/..$/\.&/'
+    - if [ "${#failed[@]}" -ge 1 ] ; then verb "failed files $failed" ; false ; fi
+  # the second last line in the script prints the statistics which are parsed by the following regex:
+  coverage: /^Successful Compilation Coverage [0-9]*\.[0-9][0-9]/
+  cache:
+    untracked: true # cache all pdf files for subsequent runs
+  artifacts:
+    name: "${CI_PROJECT_NAME}-pdfs"
+    when: always
+    expire_in: 10 yrs
+    paths:
+    - ./*.pdf
+    - ./*/*.pdf
+    - ./*/*/*.pdf
+
+
+  # You can link the most recently *finished* artifacts by a badge:
+  #
+  # Link:            https://gitlab.cs.fau.de/%{project_path}/-/jobs/artifacts/%{default_branch}/browse?job=compile_latex
+  # Badge image URL: https://gitlab.cs.fau.de/%{project_path}/badges/%{default_branch}/build.svg
+  #
+  # e.g.: https://gitlab.cs.fau.de/thorsten/coalgpartref/-/jobs/artifacts/master/browse?job=compile_latex
+  # see also https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/pipelines/job_artifacts.html#downloading-the-latest-artifacts
+  #
+  #environment:
+  #    name: Recent PDFs
+  #    url: https://gitlab.cs.fau.de/$CI_PROJECT_PATH/builds/$CI_BUILD_ID/artifacts/browse