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@@ -5,15 +5,9 @@ Download a transcript, place it in this directory, run
`./convert_transcript.lua FILE`, fill in author and link as `./convert_transcript.lua FILE`, fill in author and link as
requested, and you will have a usable epub. requested, and you will have a usable epub.
This is heavily WIP. **The file name will be set as the title.**
I used the apply_margin script on a transcript downloaded from This is heavily WIP.
https://www.youtube-transcript.io to correct the poor formatting,
then oops_all_code to add backticks to each line (because else
pandoc encodes all code in a single block no matter how poorly
that aligns with a page boundary when exporting epubs), then
pandoc --from markdown+hard_line_breaks input -o output to finally
have a functional epub that is legible.
This will probably fail with videos longer than an hour because This will probably fail with videos longer than an hour because
the export will be different enough to fuck up the margin fix. the export will be different enough to fuck up the margin fix.