From 49c9692d5d60f224bfde72cb6956f65249034954 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: woutdenolf <woutdenolf@users.sf.net>
Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2026 10:01:16 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] add custom doc pre-build commands

---
 .github/workflows/python-docs.yml | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/python-docs.yml b/.github/workflows/python-docs.yml
index 2018d1d..79c20ed 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/python-docs.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/python-docs.yml
@@ -7,6 +7,11 @@ on:
         description: "Python version for documentation build"
         type: string
         default: "3.12"
+      pre-build-commands:
+        description: "Optional custom commands to run before building the documentation"
+        type: string
+        required: false
+        default: ""
 
 jobs:
   docs:
@@ -23,5 +28,9 @@ jobs:
           sudo apt-get update
           sudo apt-get install -y pandoc
 
+      - name: Run custom command
+        if: ${{ inputs.pre-build-commands != '' }}
+        run: ${{ inputs.pre-build-commands }}
+
       - name: Build documentation
         run: sphinx-build ./doc ./html