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+name: create-documentation
+on: 
+  workflow_dispatch
+
+jobs: 
+  create-documentation: 
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        config:
+         - name: "ubuntu-20"
+           os: ubuntu-20.04
+           cxx: "g++-9"
+           cc: "gcc-9"
+           fc: "gfortran-9"
+           swig_builtin: "Off" #uses swig 4.0.1
+           py: "/usr/bin/python3" #python 3.8
+    
+    # define steps to take
+    steps: 
+      - name: Checkout repository
+        uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - name: Python install
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v4
+        with:
+          python-version: '3.9'
+          cache: 'pip' # caching pip dependencies
+      - name: Prerequirements
+        run: |
+          sudo apt-get update
+          sudo apt-get install libmuparser-dev libhdf5-serial-dev libomp5 libomp-dev libfftw3-dev libcfitsio-dev lcov 
+          pip install -r doc/pages/example_notebooks/requirements.txt # load requrements for notebooks
+      - name: Set up the build
+        env:
+          CXX: ${{ matrix.config.cxx }}
+          CC: ${{ matrix.config.cc }}
+          FC: ${{ matrix.config.fc }}
+        run: |
+          mkdir build
+          cd build
+          cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$HOME/.local 
+            -DENABLE_PYTHON=True -DPYTHON_EXECUTABLE=${{ matrix.config.py }} 
+            -DENABLE_TESTING=Off -DENABLE_SWIG_BUILTIN=${{ matrix.config.swig_builtin }} 
+            -DSIMD_EXTENSIONS=native
+            -DBUILD_DOC=True -DENABLE_COVERAGE=True
+      - name: Build CRPropa
+        run: |
+          cd build
+          make -j
+      - name: run test
+        run: | 
+          cd build
+          make test
+        continue-on-error: true
+      - name: coverage and documentation
+        run: |
+          cd build
+          make coverage
+          tar -zcvf coverage.tar.gz coverageReport
+          make doc
+          tar -zcvf documentation.tar.gz doc
+      - name: archive documentation
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3
+        with:
+          name: "documentation.tar.gz"
+          path: | 
+            documentation.tar.gz
+            coverage.tar.gz