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I would like an option in FanFicFare to preserve order of chapters, apocrypha and sides stories as they were published on Sufficient Velocity or Space Battles.
I have a suspicion that it was discussed already a few times, but cannot find it in the this many pages...
Anyway, here is my proposal:
The "supporting" chapters can distract from the main story, sure, but they also add some flavor, or influence the autor. But currently the book downloaded form SB or SV forums always has main chapter first, then Side Stories, Apocrypha, Media, etc.
But I believe it is wrong - the Side Stories and Apocrypha do evolve with progression of the main story line. And sometimes the side story become part of main story. And Media posts are often needed as illustration.
As an option, maybe we can have an automatic addition into the main story chapter with limited TOC: "After this chapter the next Media/Side Story/Apocrypha/Information were added". And the side story or apocrypha chapter can be prepended with a text "Published after main chapter XXXX", so the reader will know that there were some illustrations. Or if apocrypha goes against the "truth" as it become known in later chapters, the reader can go back and see at what stage of the main story that apocrypha was added.
So I would like to have a four-way switch:
- group posts by tag (as it is now),
- sort them as they were published in the thread,
- sort by tag with automatic list of references which could be used to see the order of publishing,
- just ignore everything which is not a main story. Just like the "Reader" mode on the forum is already doing it.
It is primarily needed for forum-like sources as SV and SB. Probably some other, which I am not know about, too. Not important for AO3 and similar - they do not have a specific "apocrypha" or "side story" tags. But for SB/SV - would be an excellent addition.
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