Pluck me!

[elfs]

I spent my study time this morning writing a series of Plucker toolchains for various Usenet and storiesonline outputs.

One of the neat features of plucker is its ability to bundle a whole collection of chapters, books, or series into a series of pages, like web pages, that you can then distribute or upload as a single Palm Database Block (PDB) file. This allows you to arrange your collections as a heirarchy, rather than as a flat library, which was one of the problems with CSpotRun.

It's not perfect but it's getting there. I'm using AFT to convert stories to html, since it's very smart and very tolerant of the shenanigans of most Usenet authors, myself included, and I've written a tool called mkpluckindex that will take a list of AFT'd stories and create a Plucker "landing page" for them.

I have chosen my test subject well. I now carry Noriko's Demon in my pocket.

Comments

[norikos-author.livejournal.com]

*blush*

[elfs.livejournal.com]

Yeah, well, just consider the company you keep. The next experiment, which will autopopulate the title and author fields of the Plucker makefile, will consist of Nickolai Mirovich's lesbian romance Pokemon fanfic. Which,
despite the setting, is some of the better writing I've read on ASSTR. Just skip over the battle scenes.

[norikos-author.livejournal.com]

Really? I've always skipped that, though last time I came across it was before I started reading Harry Potter fanfic. Maybe I'll give it a chance.