Poetry-book Command line interface.
Create a latex poetry book starting from poems written in plain text files.
$ cargo install poetry-book-cli
USAGE:
poetry-book-cli <book-dir>
FLAGS:
-h, --help Prints help information
-V, --version Prints version information
ARGS:
<book-dir> The path of the book directory
The directory structure that contains the input of the program looks like this:
.
├── book.json
├── poems/
│ ├── A Silvia
│ ├── La ginestra.txt
│ └── L'infinito
└── Preface.txt
book.json file has the following format:
{
"author": "Giacomo Leopardi",
"title": "Leopardi's poetry book",
"toc_title": "Table of Contents",
"language": "Italian",
"preface": "Preface.txt",
"poem_formatting": {
"centered_verse": "average"
},
"poems": [
"La ginestra.txt",
"L'infinito",
"A Silvia"
]
}- author: book author
- title: book title
- toc_title: table of contents title (optional)
- language: language of the poems (optional)
- preface: filename of the preface (optional). The preface (without extension) is used as preface title.
- poem_formatting: how poems should be formatted (optional)
- centered_verse: Determine which verse will be centered. There are two options:
- longest: The verse with the longest length (default)
- average: A verse with a number of 'x' equal to the average length among all verses
- centered_verse: Determine which verse will be centered. There are two options:
- poems: ordered list of poems filename. The filename (without extension) is used as poem title.
Poems are just plain text files, with an empty line between stanzas. The name of the file (without extension) is the poem title, the content of the file is the poem body.
Preface is just a plain text file, with an empty line between paragraphs. The name of the file (without extension) is the preface title, the content of the file is the preface body.
When you run the executable, the output is places in the out/ directory.
Licensed under either of
- Apache License, Version 2.0 (LICENSE-APACHE or http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
- MIT license (LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)
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