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Merging multiple single-page asciidoc files into single work? #7
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Is anyone working on some sort of system for being able to track the relationship between pages in a scanned work and the pages' location in the final asciidoc file? Maybe single text files for each page, which then get merged into one (as part of the build script)? I'm not sure of the best way, but have been thinking of playing with some scripts for doing this.
The hardest thing I've found with working with proofreading Gitenberg books is the annoyance of keeping track of where one is in the .djvu vs the .asciidoc.... Any suggestions?
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eshellman commentedon Jul 20, 2015
Is this information preserved in any gutenberg txt or html files?
Anchors, for example
[[source-page-13]]should work, if you can figure out how to embed themsamwilson commentedon Jul 20, 2015
No, I think it's all thrown away. Maybe kept at PGDP though? I'm not sure.
The main issues are to do with paragraph breaks, and hyphenated words. Because one could e.g. just concatenate a bunch of asciidoc files (fragments, really) and it would work, but there would need to be conventions about which side of the pagebreak the full hyphenated word would be, and I think an extra line would have to be left at the top of pages on which a new paragraph is started.
Other than that, I think it'd work. Maybe. Hard to parse/format indiviudal pages, but that's no great problem.
samwilson commentedon Jul 21, 2015
@eshellman I wasn't quite thinking yesterday I think! You're quite right, of course: anchors are the way to go. I had thought that the double-square-bracket syntax was only for BlockIds, but now I remember that it's fine inline too. So this would work:
The only thing to decide, and perhaps it doesn't matter, is what side of cross-page items (hyphenated words etc.) to put the anchor on.
eshellman commentedon Jul 21, 2015
Looking forward to your sensible recommendation.
Add information about page anchors
samwilson commentedon Jul 21, 2015
Hm "sensible" eh? You might be waiting a while... ;)
Closing this; I've sent a PR, where we can talk more.