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#########################################
# Terminal aliases
# OSX: Save/add this to ~/.bash_profile
# Ubuntu: Add this to ~/.bashrc
# Windows Git Bash: Add this to ~/.bashrc
#########################################

# Uncomment one of the following two options
# - This for OSX:
# alias aliedit="code ~/.bash_profile"

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Apply Oxford-Z spelling

This regex replaces -ise endings with Oxford Z -ize endings. Note that this is not the same as American z endings.

This regex is designed for use in Sublime Text, which uses the PCRE regex engine. It should work elsewhere, too.

Caveat

• This will probably always be a work in progress. Never apply a regex like this globally – you should eyeball every replacement. For instance, it might replace names that end in 'ise' (it does already leave Louise alone), or book titles like Mandela: The Unauthorised Biography, which should retain their original spelling.
• This regex will preserve initial capitals, e.g. 'Theorise' becomes 'Theorize', but not capitalisation inside words. If your text includes words entirely in uppercase, make sure you activate 'Preserve case' in your editor (e.g. Sublime Text) to avoid replacing an uppercase S with a lowercase z, such as 'THEORIzE'.

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# PowerShell: Counting words in a text file
# Returns a list of the most-used, longest words in a text file.
#
# Adapted slightly from 
# https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/josebda/2015/03/21/powershell-examples-counting-words-in-a-text-file/
# 
# Run this with PowerShell in the folder containing your text, from PowerShell with:
# ./word-freq
# It looks for combined.txt. To get this from a set of markdown files,
# I use Cygwin (because native Windows CLIs have encoding issues) and run:

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// Standard JS
/* globals window, copy */

// This script returns Electric-Book-compatible
// YAML for use in the nav and toc in _data/works.
// It's intended for EBTv2 (2023).
//
// Usage:
// 1. Generate the output HTML of a book.
// 2. Open the page you need TOC yaml for in a browser (e.g. 01.html)

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// This Sass mixin adds a dotted line above and below an element, e.g. a heading.
// It was written for use in print output with PrinceXML,
// but should work as well in browsers. YMMV.

// The dot is an SVG circle encoded into the CSS.
// The SVG includes the dot and space on its left and right.
// To change the gap, change the width attribute.
// A width of 400 means the gap is 3 times the width of the dot.
// That is, width = the dot (at 100) plus the gap.
$dot-svg: 'data:image/svg+xml;utf8,<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" height="100" width="400"><circle cx="50%" cy="50%" r="50"/></svg>';

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// ==UserScript==
// @name     Avoid social media
// @version  1
// @grant    none
// @include   *://facebook.com*
// @include   *://*.facebook.com*
// @include   *://twitter.com*
// @include   *://*.twitter.com*
// @run-at  document-start
// ==/UserScript==

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Installing Jekyll on Windows

Getting Jekyll installed on Windows can be more complicated than on, say, OSX and Ubuntu, but not by much. This outlines the steps I use.

I have similar guidance (plus extra steps for my publishing tools) for OSX written up here.

Why is this tricky?

Because each of the pieces that make Jekyll work is fussy, especially on Windows, which the developers of those pieces rarely use.

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Converting from InDesign to the Electric Book workflow

Suggested steps

This is what we do when we convert one of our Bettercare textbooks from a traditional InDesign workflow to markdown for this workflow. You'll probably develop your own process for turning existing books into markdown. Maybe this will help.

1. Open the InDesign file and copy all the text.
2. Paste the text with formatting into your text editor.
3. Search and replace (S&R) all line breaks with double line breaks:
   • Tick 'Regular expression' (because you're using the regex \n to mean 'line break', not actually searching for the characters 'slash' and 'lowercase en').

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@echo off

:: This batch file copies a file called 'file.txt'
:: from a subfolder called 'sourcefolder'
:: to all subfolders called 'text'.

:: Get current directory
set dir=%~dp0
:: Loop and copy file
for /d /r %dir% %%d in (.) do (

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