FlexTail Whitepaper

Three-Dimensional Spinal Shape Reconstruction for Ambulatory Biomechanics

Built with LaTeX using the Tectonic typesetting engine and the rectify-whitepaper template.

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Building Locally

Prerequisites:

• just — command runner
• tectonic — LaTeX engine (handles package downloads automatically)

Build the PDF:

just build

This reads the version from VERSION, writes src/version.tex, and compiles the document. The output is placed in build/FlexTail_Whitepaper/FlexTail_Whitepaper.pdf.

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Releasing a New Version

1. Update VERSION with the new version number (e.g. 0.1.0):

   echo "0.1.0" > VERSION

2. Commit the change:

   git add VERSION
   git commit -m "chore: bump version to 0.1.0"

3. Tag and push:

   just release

   This creates a v<version> tag and pushes it to origin.

The CI pipeline (.github/workflows/build.yml) triggers on any tag push. It builds the PDF with Tectonic and creates a GitHub Release with the PDF attached automatically.

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Project Structure

src/            LaTeX source files
  index.tex     Main document entry point
  refs.bib      BibTeX bibliography
  sections/     Chapter/section files
assets/         Logos and images
ref/            Reference PDFs
build/          Compiled output (generated, not committed)
Tectonic.toml   Tectonic project configuration
VERSION         Current version string (e.g. 0.0.1)
justfile        Build and release recipes