Interesting. I can see it also being useful for taking long stories/ articles and quickly making them screen/page sized. (I find that I get more out of my reading when I don't have to keep scrolling, plus it make searchs a lot more exact)
Ken Girard On Jul 16, 12:09 am, "Mark S." <[email protected]> wrote: > Now that there's a way to make TiddlyPocketBooks (aka PocketMod) with > TW, I'm looking for ways to easily create portable documents. My > current technique is to create one central library with various sets > of 8 pages that make up the PocketBook. I pull the pages into the > PocketBook using Eric Shulman's ExternalTiddlerPlugin and a control > tiddler to specify the base names of the pages I want, where each page > is numbered like Tiddler1, Tiddler2, etc. > > One problem is that when sourcing new material, it can be tedious to > split it into 8 chunks of about the right size. So, here's my first > stab at it: > > http://marksbasement.tiddlyspot.com/#SplitTextIntoTiddlers > > Open it up to read the documentation and view the supporting > requirements. > > This script will allow you to split up a large chunk of copied text > into however many tiddlers you want, using a specified base (stem) > name for the generated tiddlers. It currently uses a character count > to to determine the break point, along with word boundaries. A > character count isn't perfect, but unless someone can point me to a > technique that can readily calculate the space a given bit of text > with a given font will take inside a specified box, it will have to > do. Picking the right character count for your particular project > should get you pretty close, and make the job mostly one of tweaking > here or there afterward. > > Thanks to everyone, especially Eric, for all the help and examples in > these forums that makes it possible to create these types of scripts. > > -- Mark --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
