v.pl

   1 #!/usr/bin/env perl
   2 use strict;
   3 use warnings;
   4
   5 # code as grid. only the grid saves!
   6 # there may already be a little groff markup in this file
   7 my $textFile = "sections_7,_9" unless $ARGV[0];
   8 $textFile = $ARGV[0] unless not $ARGV[0];
   9
  10 # this returns the text as an array of arrays, alllinesAllleters ;)
  11 my @textAoA = &parseText($textFile);
  12 &verticalMotionMarkUp(\@textAoA, 10);
  13
  14 # takes as an argument the file to be parsed, so &parseText("file")
  15 sub parseText {
  16     my @alllinesAllletters;
  17     my @currentLineLetters;
  18     open(TEXT, "<", $_[0]) || die "can't open $_[0] : $!";
  19
  20     while (<TEXT>) {
  21         chomp;
  22         @currentLineLetters = split //, $_;
  23         push @alllinesAllletters, [@currentLineLetters];
  24     }
  25     @alllinesAllletters;
  26 }
  27
  28 sub verticalMotionMarkUp {
  29     my @textLetters = @{$_[0]};
  30         my $localMotionRange = $_[1];
  31     my $aLetter;
  32     my $aLineRef;
  33     my $anAmount;
  34     my $markedUpLetter;
  35
  36     # this is the file that we will build
  37     my $newFile = $textFile . "Typeset";
  38     open(TYPESET, ">", $newFile) || die "can't open $newFile : $!";
  39
  40     # for evry letter...
  41     foreach $aLineRef (@textLetters) {
  42         if (@$aLineRef == 0) {}
  43         # the script recognizes lines that begin with a `.' or a `\'
  44                 elsif (@$aLineRef[0] eq "." || @$aLineRef[0] eq "\\") {
  45             foreach $aLetter (@{$aLineRef}) {
  46                 print TYPESET $aLetter;
  47             }
  48         } else {
  49             foreach $aLetter (@{$aLineRef}) {
  50                 $anAmount = int(rand($localMotionRange));
  51                 $markedUpLetter = "\\v'" . $anAmount . "M'$aLetter\\v'-" . $anAmount . "M'";
  52                 print TYPESET $markedUpLetter;
  53             }
  54         }
  55         print TYPESET "\n";
  56     }
  57 }