User talk:Inductiveload/dp reformat.js

A Few Requests

Hi, I'm not sure if you plan on keeping on developing this tool. I really hope that you do. But, I can understand if you no longer feel comfortable. If you do, can you add the following things:

1. A Tool to deal with split pages. This could even be a separate script that can be used for any match-and-split.
2. The ability to deal with latex as in projectID455242379bd7f
3. The ability to insert a blank page. Because of missing blank pages, I've had to do 13-14 splits for a file. Even if had to insert each blank page one at a time, it would save me tons of time. Once again, this could be a useful tool for more general match-and-splits.
   1. Coupled with this it would be great to have the ability to automatically renumber the page numbers in a consecutive sequence. I've seen things like a001..a0016 b001...b0007 ...

Really appreciate all your hard work. Languageseeker (talk) 01:19, 9 March 2021 (UTC)

@Languageseeker: I don't see why not, it's a useful base for other M&S-powered importers, it's just a few regexen.

Re A Tool to deal with split pages, I don't quite follow, can you be more specific?

Re latex I'll check it out.

OK, looking at that work, it's entirely in latex. I don't think an importer is that useful unless there are lots more of these. If there were such an importer, it would essentially be custom latex syntax parser, which is a hell of a job. It's certainly not as simple as adding regexes to the existing transformations. For a start, LaTeX isn't a regular grammar (actually neither is the DP format, but we can just about manage).

Re The ability to insert a blank page, probably possible. Can you provide a good example ID?

Re ability to automatically renumber the page numbers in a consecutive sequence, again, can you show an example in situ?

Cheers, Inductiveload—talk/contribs 09:20, 9 March 2021 (UTC)

I'm so grateful to you for doing this. It's allowed me to add some really cool text to this project.

Re {{tqi|A Tool to deal with split pages} Wooden Ship-building projectID4b0bf96235f48_F2_latest User:Languageseeker/Wooden_ship-building is a good example. DP tends to split multicolumn pages into two. So page 1 become 1 and 2. It happens generally with magazines, indexes, and multi column works. Languageseeker (talk) 12:59, 9 March 2021 (UTC)

Re latex I figured that it might be too much. Would it be possible to remove the latex and just add a missing math tag?

Re The ability to insert a blank page The heart of Monadnock projectID4840381961770 F2 is a good example. I think I had to do something around 14 merge and splits for this one.

projectID3ff9cd2128457_F2_latest is a good example with unmerged text Languageseeker (talk) 01:21, 11 March 2021 (UTC)

Re ability to automatically renumber the page numbers in a consecutive sequence I'll post one as soon as I find it again.

Cheers and with extreme thankfulness Languageseeker (talk) 12:59, 9 March 2021 (UTC)