Ciao Richard S. The spreadsheet approach makes the text easier. Was that found or did you make it?
I'm looking at (thinking about, where i have competence) is Incremental RegEx with arbitrary text. One of good things with RegEx is you can test for compliance and alter next steps accordingly. Your semi-extraction of meta data from the spreadsheet is REALLY impressive. Its giving me ideas. Thank you. The screenplay thing is interesting too. You are RIGHT that its best for specific apps to provide the Appropriate Editor. For Screenplays its, fortunately, minimal. because the constraints in the film industry for scripts are very tight, simple & doable. Lets go on Josiah On Tuesday, 21 June 2016 12:10:31 UTC+2, Richard Smith wrote: > > Hi Josiah, > > It's done by pummelling a spreadsheet ~ it's supposed to be automated but > in practise, it takes a lot of trial and error to get the macros right. If > you had a hundred of them to do, it'd be fairly automated but you'd still > be cleaning up the input by hand. > > This is the spreadsheet I have left over, but it seems to be missing all > the macros, so I must have only kept a copy of the output, but you get the > idea. > > > https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Pyg99FHK8GhuPWHSLHNoLGmvypTW2Gr_wVL15Jrmeps/edit?usp=sharing > > I agree that a screenplay tool would be interesting. One thing I have > wondered about before is whether it makes sense sometimes to have a > different, kind-of "intermediate", editing mode where an end user can edit > content, but without dropping into the full wiki-text editor. Sort of like > a very limited wysywig editor. We would need to create a pleasant writing > environment for the creative mind. > > Regards, > Richard > > > On Tuesday, June 21, 2016 at 6:24:13 PM UTC+10, Josiah wrote: >> >> Ciao Mark & RichardWS >> >> Good stuff! showing what can be done. >> >> Mark, just looking at it made me realise how relatively easy it would be >> to tweak further in many ways... for instance to place all STAGE: >> instructions into italic or a different colour. >> >> Richard, the depth of decomposition you go to, and adumbrating various >> indices, is fascinating. I'd be interested to know how much this is >> automated, or could be. It certainly gives potential fine grained ways of >> studying & using long texts. >> >> The more I look at all this the more I think than just be an approach to >> presenting text, but actually to AUTHOR text. Specifically I can see how it >> might be developed into a SCREENPLAY writing tool. >> >> Best wishes >> Josiah >> >> On Tuesday, 21 June 2016 06:16:23 UTC+2, RichardWilliamSmith wrote: >>> >>> Hi Mark, >>> >>> It looks great. When I did similar with Macbeth, I was able to use the >>> spreadsheet (and a lot of futzing) to add several fields to each line of >>> the play - which might seem like overkill but it means that you can, for >>> example, extract all the lines spoken by a particular character etc. >>> >>> >>> <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-0DtqN8d_zPY/V2i99P4A_oI/AAAAAAAABo0/ojWKFQg2XG0FXJAYM55-VNd3Uo5AVy8ZACLcB/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2016-06-21%2Bat%2B2.04.08%2BPM.png> >>> >>> The primary key here is as simple as possible - every piece of dialog >>> and direction gets a sequential integer. >>> >>> As for the total size of the finished document, my advice would be >>> "don't panic!" - most of the web pages we load every day are much bigger >>> than even a fully-stuffed tiddlywiki. I was reading this slide-deck just >>> the other day which you might be interested in; >>> http://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm >>> >>> "Let's take a look at the Apple page that explains iOS on the iPad Pro >>>> <http://www.apple.com/ipad-pro/ios9/>. How big do you think this page >>>> is? >>>> Would you believe that it's bigger than the entire memory capacity of >>>> the iconic iMac? (32 MB) >>>> In fact, you could also fit the contents of the Space Shuttle Main >>>> Computer. Not just for one Shuttle, but the entire fleet (5 MB). >>>> And you would still have room for a tricked out Macintosh SE... (5MB). >>>> ...and the collected works of Shakespeare... (5 MB) >>>> With lots of room to spare. The page is 51 megabytes big." >>> >>> >>> So, you see, if our file is only 10 or 20 times the size of our actual >>> content, we are really doing quite well ;) >>> >>> Regards, >>> Richard >>> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/8c59db26-4aa2-4fc5-9d42-4d81047c64f0%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
