Page a day calendar problems

Question

I am really new to the whole LaTeX thing, but it really interests me, so I'd like to learn more about it. I am also looking mostly to do just words, maybe a picture here and there but i just want words on the pages. I found http://blog.mattj.me/latex-page-a-day-calendar# this tutorial type thing on how to do so, I copied the LaTeX file onto the back page, and i finally got that working, a PDF with just the outline of a page-a-day sized calendar. But it is blank, the website says that the next thing needed is a Python script to run and generate the \daypages, but that doesn't make any sense to me, how will doing a python program(if i even knew how) even be inputted into LaTeX? So i guess i have 2 questions, does anyone know how to write up this python program, and how am i supposed to use it in LaTeX? thanks so much.

Answer 1

Steps for this to work:

1. Create the latex code, which you have compiled correctly
2. Have python, which you have done
3. Create a file called, generate_daypage.py
4. Copy the contents of the python code into generate_daypage.py

5. Type this exact command to run the python code

   python generate_daypage.py 2012 tex-days.tex

6. The script will create a file called tex-days.tex, place this file in the same directory as your latex calendar code
7. Compile the latex calendar again

If you do not have any images to use right now, the line in the latex code that says:

\usepackage[final]{graphicx} change it to

\usepackage[demo]{graphicx} and it will provide a black box.

I have confirmed the entire script works and generates the pdf correctly.