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Originally Posted by airlik
I've been using this wonderful tool a lot over the last few days - thanks again!
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You're very welcome. I'm glad that it's useful and we hope to improve it substantially in the coming weeks.
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Originally Posted by airlik
I had a suggestion I thought I'd make about text handling.
I was recently re-reading the Marlowe plays, and thought I'd use the reader this time around. I downloaded the plain text versions from Gutenberg (most are only available in plain text). Most Gutenberg formatting apps, including this one, strip the single returns so the text flows on the display. However, with plays and poetry, you don't want that.
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Yeah I was concerned about plays, and how to algorithmically differentiate them from text that should reflow. I looked at
Dido Queene of Carthage and it has commas at the end of most of the lines. I'm sure that over the centuries there have been a ton of different styles used, and it's going to be quite a challenge to get this right.
I noticed that at the beginning of each paragraph there are names like _Cloan._ and _Iar._. Do you know what these mean?
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Originally Posted by airlik
I just used Wordpad to save as RTF (need that metadata so the book list looks nice), but it made me think - there are any number of operations that might need to be tweaked from book to book (like the page number stripping someone mentioned). I believe you said you might put things like that into a config file so people could modify/add, perhaps it could be a little more dynamic - have a little "always on top" window of checkboxes listing each operation that can be done on the text. You could check/uncheck various operations and hit "apply" to see how it would look.
It would also be nice, when TOC generation is working, to be able to change the pattern you use to find headings worthy of a TOC entry from within the program, rather than having to exit, change the config file, and try again.
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Excellent suggestion. It shouldn't be that difficult to make it automatically resurce whatever configuration file it reads, and maybe to have an editor for the config file contents.
<FingersCrossed>BTW I'm hoping that TOC and images will be coming in the next two weeks.</FingersCrossed>