Deploy built DOCX to Github pages

[habi]

I've started a new manuscript and think I need an easily accessible DOCX file for the co-authors. The DOCX file is built correctly, but not accessible at https://habi.github.io/EAWAG-manuscript/manuscript.docx as I would expect. How can I deploy/copy the DOCX file to GitHub pages to make it easily accessible for my co-authors?

[agitter]

That has to do with the deploy script. The current behavior is to commit the files written in the output directory to the output branch, which includes the docx file, and to commit the files written to the webpage directory to the gh-pages branch, which does not include the docx file.

You could probably modify deploy.sh to copy the docx output file into the webpage directory before this command makes the commit to the gh-pages branch:

ghp-import \
  --no-jekyll \
  --follow-links \
  --push \
  --branch=gh-pages \
  --message="$MESSAGE" \
  webpage

If you want to try doing that, I can give more detail. It should even be possible to track the versions of the docx file in the versioned GitHub pages URLs.

[dhimmel]

Noting that the DOCX is getting saved to the output branch, so if you are okay with a URL like https://github.com/habi/EAWAG-manuscript/raw/output/manuscript.docx that might be all you need.

[agitter]

Maybe adding a link from the manuscript front matter to that output branch URL would be a quick solution? It's much easier than modifying the deploy script.

[habi]

I'll try to fiddle with the deploy script, but having a link to the output branch is a quick and easy solution, yeah!