Glad it looks promising enough to look at!
Just so I'm clear - the text (descriptions, animals, UPPs etc) on those samples was manually entered from the SectorMaker script's 'SpinwardMarches' .sec and text files, and we're not looking at the script's actual output?
Correct - have no setup good for running the scripts.
The text was copied and pasted from the .sec and text file with
(...) doLine added (and name/hex swapped in .sec). Each section starts with
setupPage and
lastPage, but the rest is totally optional. (Though no headers or page numbers will render without extra lines.)
Each section can have a header (start of section only), starting page numbers (and page increment), subsector number (for the little locator box), option to center or use the canon header rule, option to allow the subsector borders to scale with live area. Empty strings, zero and negative page numbers, zero subsector number and such allow disabling features. Originally intended to automatically determine subsector number (by hex ranges) and pull name from text for title and the locator box. Ditto for the World Descriptions section and even the TOC. But having manual control using simple
cat ... >> (
echo ... >>) from command lines is a lot more flexible, I think.
For script writing purposes, you don't need to do everything at once - aside from header/page number differences (which can be turned off with
/pageNum 0 def and
/sectionHeader () def, though I forgot to provide an option for empty space if you want to use your header 'background' PDFs), you can just do a section at a time...
For instance, append the World Description lines to prep.ps with:
setupPage
followed by (..) doLine for each line, and then:
lastPage
at end.
Get the 'fancy' header and page numbers appending the following before
setupPage line:
/pageNum 38 def
/pageInc 1 def
/centerRules false def
/subsectorNumber 0 def
/sectionHeader (World Descriptions) def
So, here's the 'canon' style TOC from the example.ps:
% Canon TOC version...
/pageNum -1 def
/centerRules false def
/subsectorNumber 0 def
/sectionHeader (Table of Contents) def
setupPage
(ABOUT THE REMOTE SURVEY) (2) doTOCLine
( Introduction) (2) doTOCLine
...
(WORLD DESCRIPTIONS) (38) doTOCLine
lastPage
To make it look like your TOC version (seen at end of example.ps) change
true to
false for
/centerRules, set
/pageNum to
(1), and leave the page number (can be anything, like iii or 3-5) string blank
() for the bold lines. Add empty lines between entries with a simple
() doLine. (NOTE:Leading space is what determines if entry text is bold; and, the
/subsectorNumber 0 def is the default, so is just there as a best practice - it controls render of the subsector locator box.)
For a 'background' (for pdftk) for the intro pages:
% background placeholder to consistently format header/footer
/pageNum 2 def
/pageInc 1 def
/sectionHeader (About the Remote Survey) def
/centerRules false def
setupPage
newPage
lastPage
This is a new section (i.e. has ruled header at top of page) with an extra 'empty' page, containing page number, achieved using
newpage .
Do note, for script writing purposes, that text does not have to be on separate lines, as PostScript sees spaces, tabs, CR, LF and the like as a single whitespace.
P.S. - forgot to document that the .ps files use 3 character tab spacing.
