Producing a calendar

Self-made calendars can be a great gift. Also, for work and education, it would be great to have our own customized calendar.

In this recipe, we will print a calendar of a whole year, with all months arranged in a tabular layout. You can adjust it to print just one month below an image, for example.

How to do it...

We will use the mighty TikZ bundle again, since it provides a calendar library:

1. Set up document class and page dimensions. Furthermore, change to empty pagestyle to not have page numbering:

   \documentclass{article}
   \usepackage[margin = 2.5cm, a4paper]{geometry}
   \pagestyle{empty}

2. Load TikZ and its libraries calendar and positioning:

   \usepackage{tikz}
   \usetikzlibrary{calendar,positioning}

3. To save the typing effort and for an easier change of year, define a macro for the year and one to call the TikZ \calendar command:

   \newcommand{\calyear}{2016}
   \newcommand{\mon}[1]{\calendar[dates = \calyear-#1-01
     to \calyear-#1-last] if (Sunday) [red];}
   

4. Now write the document containing...