I wanted to make a build pipeline for my resume which is written in Latex. Using Travis CI, I was able to add a build that would upload an automatically compiled PDF as a release for every tag in a git repository.

sudo: required
dist: trusty
before_install:
- sudo apt-get -qq …

Aspell has a mode which allows a user check the spelling of the document without having to skip through all the latex commands.

aspell --lang=en --mode=tex check file.tex

I wish that I had know about latex back in high school when I was writing my MLA styled papers. For example the following template could be used to make a MLA paper for the user really simply.

\documentclass[12pt,letterpaper]{article}
\usepackage{ifpdf}
\usepackage{mla}
\begin{document}
\begin{mla …