[REBOL] Re: First attempt at Rebol - 16 hours later
From: greg::schofield::iinet::net::au at: 24-Sep-2007 7:26
Anto, that was more than I was expecting from anyone and very kind of you.
I will need to study the changes this afternoon to get my REBOL much improved.
I know the script aims are very simple, and only useful for a very restrictive need.
In the end I will make it publically available (if it is up to scratch), so at least
teachers can convert HTML and plain text literature into more useful forms.
"1) Insert page break
Replace selected <bnn> with <br/>"
"2) Make title
Enclose selected text in <title> </title>"
And yes this is primary objective, just give the text structural shape so that it can
be more easily handled (<div> being most important - chapters having beginings and ends
etc).
The problems with all XMLeditrors I have used is that they assume you are inputing the
text into tags, when in fact for such things you need to structure the text with tags.
They just don't work for large works - unless cutting and pasting hundreds of pages is
seen as a good productive time (it isn't).
Lines --> block series proved extremely useful (I have a huge amount to learn here),
treating nested structures as flat ones and easy conversion to nested (I am just using
a simple write to file, read from file mechanism to go between the two) looks like it
could pull the thing together without special code (which is rather neat).
Originally I was going to wait for R3, hopefully I will not have to unlearn much.
The main reason I posted it, was to encourage REBOLers.
The script was written literally with the manual in hand (the manual needs some reshaping
- an index would have helped a great deal - maybe this is something I can help with
in the future), and anyone can tell I am not a good programmer in any sense.
The fact that I could get it working at all is a tribute to the ease and power of REBOL.
Anton, I still canot believe you took so much trouble over my code piece. I am both grateful
and in awe - thank you!
Greg Schofield
Perth Australia
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From: Anton Rolls <anton-wilddsl.net.au>
To: rebolist-rebol.com
Reply-To: rebolist-rebol.com
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 04:42:49 +1000
Subject: [REBOL] Re: First attempt at Rebol - 16 hours later
Hi Greg,
I have extensively (but not completely)
optimized your Cleanerxx.r script.
http://anton.wildit.net.au/Cleanerxx_anton.r
(This link is temporary. I'll delete it after you get it.)
It produces almost exactly the same map as yours,
but a lot faster. (I tested only on 36.txt.)
The script can be optimized much further,
(I think a single parse can do it all.)
but I wanted to show you the improvements
in stages.
I'm not sure exactly what the script should do
and what modifications should be available to the
user. Could you list those things ? eg:
1) Insert page break
Replace selected <bnn> with <br/>
2) Make title
Enclose selected text in <title> </title>
Regards,
Anton.
