Re: Document builds on readthedocs (lesson I learned)

["Konrad, Martin via Core-talk" <core-talk at aps.anl.gov>]

Hi Timo,
> Finally I was able to track the reason to pdflatex producing too many
> errors because it could not handle “ligatures” in the UTF-8 files.
Yeah, LaTeX doesn't want you to use ligatures in the source. It will of
course automatically use them in the output to improve readability. So
whenever you are copying text from a LaTeX-generated PDF file into your
source you run into this problem.

Here is a Python solution [1] that might help with replacing them. Would
it make sense to turn that into a Git pre-commit hook? This would also
give us the opportunity to run additional style checks in the future
(e.g. prevent users from committing files with spaces at the end of a
line etc.). The downside of pre-commit hooks is that they aren't copied
automatically when cloning a repo.

-Martin

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/a/9175406/7583635

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