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** [http://www.isfdb.org/tordoubles.html Tor Doubles]. (1988-1991)
 
** [http://www.isfdb.org/tordoubles.html Tor Doubles]. (1988-1991)
 
* [http://www.isfdb.org/zebra.html Zebra]
 
* [http://www.isfdb.org/zebra.html Zebra]
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== Wiki Conversion Notes ==
 
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This is a Wiki conversion of [http://www.isfdb.org/printseries.html printseries.html]
 
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Most links point to non existent wiki pages, but you can get the content that should be there from the above link.
 
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As i started converting some of these pages, i encountered two big issues...
 
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# should these pages really be in the wiki, or should they be powered by the DB? (at the moment search by publisher doesn't seem to work)
 
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# some of these publisher lists are too big for the wiki... when i tried converting "Orbit" the wiki warned me that many browsers would have dificulty editing and i should break it up,  when i tried converting DAW, after my browser had submitted all the data, the wiki churned for about 10 (more) minutes before my browser finally timed out.
 
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That said...
 
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Assuming you use [http://diberri.dyndns.org/html2wiki.html this URL] to convert pages to wiki syntax, the following perl script is handy for cleaning up the publisher listing pages. [[Gnome Press]] and [[Fantasy Press]] are good examples
 
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<pre>
 
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<nowiki>
 
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#!/bin/perl
 
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#
 
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# use http://diberri.dyndns.org/html2wiki.html to convert pub pages,
 
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# then use this to clean them up
 
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# :TODO: should have one script that uses HTML::WikiConverter and does it all
 
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#
 
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use warnings;
 
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use strict;
 
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# slurp it in
 
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undef $/;
 
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my $w = <>;
 
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# convert bold years to sub-headings
 
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$w =~ s/ '''(\d+)'''/\n\n== $1 ==\n/g;
 
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# get rid of all the horiz rules
 
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$w =~ s/^\s*?----//mg;
 
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# any pub link is a bullet
 
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$w =~ s{(\[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi)}{\n* $1}mg;
 
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# some pubs don't have links, just a dash
 
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$w =~ s{ ?\- (\S)}{\n* $1}mg;
 
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# trim excess newlines
 
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$w =~ s/\n{2,}/\n\n/g;
 
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# kill any remaining single newline (followed by optional whitespace)
 
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$w =~ s{([^\n])\n ?([^\n])}{$1$2}g;
 
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# get rid of all the excess whitespace
 
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$w =~ s/ +/ /sg;
 
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# any line that still starts with whitespace is bad
 
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$w =~ s/^ +//mg;
 
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# spit it out
 
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print $w;
 
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</nowiki>
 
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</pre>
 

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