Reformatting Project Gutenberg Texts
with the Python Scripting Language

• Use msage10.txt to run the following programs and get an idea of how they work.
• chaptofile3 splits a project gutenberg prose text file into separate HTML files for each chapter
• filter2 strips the chapter name and numbers out of a project gutenberg text file and writes out html link records for them. This program is used in conjunction with chaptofile.py to reduce a project gutenberg text file (specifically a Balzac novel) to a set of html pages connected with html frames. Call them on a Gutenberg file "rsula10.txt" from DOS as follows.
  To create the text itself:
  C:\Program Files\Python>python chaptofile3.py rsula10.txt
  And to create the table of contents:
  C:\Program Files\Python>python filter2.py rsula10.txt >rsula10_toc.html

(Note: Within Project Gutenberg most Balzac novels follow a convention for chapter headings. This is the part you'll have to change if you want to reformat the writings of other authors that use other chapter heading conventions. It would be cool to introduce a little artificial intelligence that picks out chapter heading conventions that might be being used, presents them to the user for verification, then procedes on its way reformatting the text according to the selected convention.)