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diff --git a/README.md b/README.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5a3c57c --- /dev/null +++ b/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,70 @@ +Org-Quotes +========== + +This was a quick weekend (well, two Fridays and a Sunday) project to +do some org-mode file parsing to get some useful work done. + +make-post.php +------------- + +This was the original Friday hack. + +The idea is that we have an org-mode file with a specific structure: + + * Root Element + ** Reporter One Name + *** First Source-Person Name + Quote body text + *** Second Source-Person Name + Quote body text + ** Reporter Two Name + +We parse that, offer an HTML form to select one quote from each +reporter, then dump all the selected quotes to a (partial) HTML file +that we can use as a Wordpress post. + +word2org.sh +----------- + +This happened later that Friday, when I had to deal with some quotes +that had already been typed by an assistant. + +The assistant had typed up a bunch of quotes into Microsoft Word. +Blech. Fortunately for me she(? I haven't actually met said person) +did it in a fairly disciplined structure, so that after copy/pasting +into a text-file, I could parse it into an org-mode file with the +above structure. I wrote a quickie bash script to do this. + +For reference, the format of this text is: + + “Quote body” + - Quote Source + + “Quote body” + - Quote Source + + Reporter: Reporter Name + +upload-org.php/upload-ms-word.php +--------------------------------- + +The next week I discovered that the proxy I had to work behind had +been reconfigured, and I couldn't figure out tunnel SSH through it. +So I couldn't SSH in, paste the MS Word data into an Emacs buffer, +then run it through `word2org.sh`, then `mv` it to the location looked +for by [what is now named] `make-post.php`. So, when I got home I +make `upload-msword.php` and `upload-org.php` so that I could paste in +either org-mode or MS Word formatted quotes from a browser behind the +proxy, and still get work done /at work/. + +So yeah, `upload-msword.php` uses the system() PHP call to run +word2org. Go ahead, shoot me, but this was never meant to be a +polished project. + +Other Notes +----------- + +All of the PHP files have a directory hardcoded into them to either +look for the org-mode files in, or upload them to. I've got it set to +`/home/luke/j1-uploads`. Perhaps one day I'll move that to a single +config file. |