[pm-h] write to empty files

[Chris Blanc]

Sounds like a fun project. If I recall correctly, you had mentioned
also wanting a custom header in each output file; what would that be?
Also, how do you want to delimit A, B, and C in the output?

Chris


On Sat, Jun 9, 2018 at 2:51 PM,  <rlharris at oplink.net> wrote:
> On Sat, June 9, 2018 8:32 am, Chris Blanc wrote:
>> I did something similar when I wrote an experimental hypertext book.
>> It turned out that using Perl to parse a source text file with simple
>> markup was the solution. Would something like that work for you?
>
> I am attempting to write a chapter-by-chapter survey of the Scripture. The
> survey is to be published in the form of articles in both HTML and PDF,
> posted to the WWW for free, no-charge download.
>
> For each of the roughly 1200 chapters in the Bible it is necessary to
> bring together in one document [A] the Scripture text (Greek), [B] the
> English translation of the Scripture text, and [C] an analysis of the
> chapter (which is the part I write).
>
> Parsing [A] and [B] is not an issue; it is easy to place each chapter
> (Greek or the English translation) into a separate file.  And each chapter
> analysis [C] is composed as a separate file.  Thus, I have three source
> directories (Greek, English translation, analysis), each of which contains
> roughly 1200 files.  A fourth directory contains the destination files, to
> which LaTeX markup subsequently is added prior to publication.
>
> The need is to create the set of approximately 1200 destination files.  To
> create each destination file, the corresponding source file is copied from
> [A], [B], and [C]:
>
>   sourceA-0001.tex to destination-0001.tex
>   sourceB-0001.tex to destination-0001.tex
>   sourceC-0001.tex to destination-0001.tex
>
>   sourceA-0002.tex to destination-0002.tex
>   sourceB-0002.tex to destination-0002.tex
>   sourceC-0002.tex to destination-0002.tex
>
>   ...
>
>   sourceA-1189.tex to destination-1189.tex
>   sourceB-1189.tex to destination-1189.tex
>   sourceC-1189.tex to destination-1189.tex
>
> Automating the creation of destination files not only saves time in the
> original compilation, but also facilitates revisions of the commentary, as
> well as change from one English translation to another.
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