GitHub Actions for Text Data Files

[BenjamenMeyer]

We need to add some GitHub Actions for some of the various tasks in this repository.
Some simple ones we should do on PRs:

• Spell Check (e.g. https://github.com/marketplace/actions/github-spellcheck) on text data and the Tex-based manual
• Running a Tex validator on the Tex-based manual to ensure all the Tex-control statements are valid
• Run a Tex converter (Tex->PDF/HTML) on the Tex-based manual
  • Test run for PRs
  • Submit a PR against https://github.com/vegastrike/Assets-Production when the Tex-based manual is changed on merges

I'm sure there's other things we'd like to do with the other functionality in here too. Actions should be mostly based around validating what might get changed.

[Loki1950]

We should also consider a verification process for asset files as well and then there is the Python scripts too.

[BenjamenMeyer]

@Loki1950 what tooling would we need for that?

BTW, I'm thinking each of these things could be separate actions for the PRs

[Loki1950]

For the assets maybe just a sanity check and path verification the Python is more in your area of experience.

[BenjamenMeyer]

The Python yes; that's pretty easy - I'm curious about the other stuff that's in here - images, sound, etc. - and what we should be doing to verify them. Are there format checkers? Can we validate audio streams? Verify we can process in text-to-audio?

[Loki1950]

All of our images are in dds format ATM to keep our download and repo usage low though I will be keeping a local repo of our master images as well as blender files for each ship/installation which can be burned to disc for possible distribution to who ever requests it. One of things that has/is happening is those loading errors most are caused by path references being wrong or just not present in the csv files dropped or extra comma pyramid3d's UnitConverter does a good job for creating/checking the csv structure have used it for putting models in game and testing other things.

[romanyacik]

I still want to help out, and even better, if I can start getting some coding exercise again. Is there anything trivial I can do?