Github workflow to compile and deploy latex

writeapaper.yml

# Github workflow to compile latex and deploy the pdf to an orphan branch.
# The latest compiled pdf is at available at e.g.
# https://github.com/dgerosa/reponame/blob/build/filename.pdf
# Davide Gerosa (2021) https://github.com/dgerosa

name: writeapaper
on: [push]
jobs:
  paper:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    env:
      # Edit here with the names of your latex file and directory (can use ".")
      DIR: draft
      FILE: draft
    steps:
      - name: Checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v2
      - name: Install TeXlive
        run: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install texlive texlive-publishers texlive-science latexmk cm-super
      - name: LaTeX compile
        working-directory: ${{ env.DIR }}
        #run: latexmk -pdf -bibtex ${{ env.FILE }}
        run: pdflatex ${{ env.FILE }}; bibtex ${{ env.FILE }}; pdflatex ${{ env.FILE }}; pdflatex ${{ env.FILE }};
      - name: move
        run: mkdir -p github_artifacts && mv ${{ env.DIR }}/${{ env.FILE }}.pdf ./github_artifacts/
      - name: Upload pdf as artifact
        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v2
        with:
          name: ${{ env.FILE }}.pdf
          path: ./github_artifacts
  deploy:
    # Edit here if compiling multiple papers
    needs: [paper]
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v2
      - uses: actions/download-artifact@v2
        with:
          path: github_artifacts
      - name: move
        run: mkdir -p github_deploy && mv github_artifacts/*/* github_deploy
      - name: deploy on orphan branch
        uses: peaceiris/actions-gh-pages@v3
        with:
          github_token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
          publish_dir: ./github_deploy
          publish_branch: build
          force_orphan: true