Add /The Mirror/, and start at an ePub version

stories/A_Child_s_Letter.The_Mirror.tex

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+\chapauth{A Child's Letter}
+\chapter{The Mirror}
+
+Luke Bavarious' eyes rolled around in their sockets, finally allowing
+him to focus again on the bathroom mirror. His Beretta still in hand, he
+wiped the few remaining flecks of sick from his mouth.
+
+{\em What can't I remember? I don't have any idea what I've,
+  what's\ldots uggh!  Too much shitty tequila}, he concluded. Again, he
+vomited.
+
+The reflection gazing back at him nodded even as Bavarious nodded.
+
+{\em I can't live like this! I'm a cop, dammit! I'm a cop! I'm a
+  copI'macopI'macopI'macop}, he thought, his mind shrieking the mantra,
+causing liquid rust to ooze from his flaring nostrils.
+
+The reflection gazing back at him blinked. Bavarious did not.
+
+{\em What the hell?!}
+
+Suddenly, rancid vomit streamed from the Bavarious in the mirror,
+splattering the glass and causing the other to recoil. Bavarious
+stepped---or stumbled, rather---back, raised his weapon, and aimed for
+the reflection's chest.
+
+{\sc Boom!}
+
+Red pain arced across his frame moments after he pulled the
+trigger. Shards of silvered glass protruded evilly from his hands and
+chest, callously inviting Bavarious' tattered sports coat to greedily
+lick away every spent drop of blood.
+
+On the other side of what had been the mirror, the ``reflection'' stood,
+grinning lustily at its fallen doppelgänger.
+
+``Who\ldots what\ldots what are you!'' wondered Bavarious aloud.
+
+{\em I am you}, projected the specter as it placed a shaking withered
+hand on either side of the mirror's frame and thrust an impossibly long
+and spidery leg through the opening.
+
+``The {\em fuck} you are!'' shouted Bavarious, who fired three more
+rounds into the advancing creature. As every mushrooming burst of metal
+rage ripped into it, Bavarious felt as though {\em he} had been shot.
+
+``What are you {\em doing} to me!'' he roared, or tried to: his voice,
+hoarse, weakly reverberated throughout the dismal room. His crimson
+lifeforce spread out before him, pooling in a macabre circle.
+
+{\em What am I doing to you? The question, Luke, is what are you doing
+  to you.}
+
+{\em I don't know what you're---shit, now {\em I'm} doing it---}
+
+``I don't know what you're talking about!''
+
+{\em I know}, it smiled as it injected itself into Baravious'
+reality. {\em I know.}
+
+That's when Bavarious realized the smile wasn't one of joy or elation;
+rather, it was one of rueful, inescapable sadness. The kind of smile one
+smiles when, having done everything to avoid a foregone conclusion, the
+conclusion looms inevitable.
+
+{\em I don't want to die}, whined Bavarious. {\em What do I do?}
+
+``You...die, Luke,'' it whispered.
+
+Gently---lovingly, it stroked Bavarious' cheek with its bony
+fingers. With every tortured breath, Bavarious felt his body contort,
+stretch out, become more like that of the entity now cradling his
+convulsing head.
+
+Maybe it was a trick of the greenish ultraviolet light; maybe it was his
+uncontrollable spasms, but Bavarious was almost---no, he was one hundred
+percent positive that the monster was somehow {\em condensing},
+coalescing: somehow, its thready arms and legs were gaining proportion
+even as its previously gaunt features seemed to swell with health.
+
+Through the multifaceted, bloodstained reflection of a shattered
+bathroom mirror, the last thing Bavarious ever saw was {\em himself}
+reach down and collect his Beretta.
+
+{\em I'm a cop}, he sighed.
+
+``I'm a cop,'' he said aloud, tucking his sidearm within the confines of
+his tattered sports coat and walking briskly from the room.

toepub.py

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+#! /usr/bin/env python3
+
+import re
+
+block1_re = re.compile(r'{\\(?P<cmd>[\w*]+) (?P<txt>[^{}]+)}')
+block2_re = re.compile(r'\\(?P<cmd>[\w*]+)(\[[^]]+\])?{(?P<txt>[^{}]*)}')
+
+
+chapauth = None
+chapimg = None
+display = True
+pfx = ''
+
+def texsub(m):
+    global pfx, display
+
+    cmd = m.group('cmd')
+    txt = m.group('txt')
+    if cmd == 'em':
+        return '<em>%s</em>' % txt
+    elif cmd == 'bf':
+        return '<strong>%s</strong>' % txt
+    elif cmd == 'sf':
+        return '<samp>%s</samp>' % txt
+    elif cmd == 'sc':
+        return '<span class="sc">%s</span>' % txt
+    elif cmd == 'rm':
+        return '<span class="rm">%s</span>' % txt
+    elif cmd == 'url':
+        return '<a href="%s">%s</a>' % (txt, txt)
+    elif cmd == 'begin':
+        if txt in ('center',):
+            return
+        elif txt in ('quotation', 'quote'):
+            pfx = '> '
+        elif txt == 'textblock':
+            display = False
+        else:
+            print(cmd, txt)
+            raise TypeError(cmd)
+    elif cmd == 'end':
+        if txt == 'textblock':
+            display = True
+        else:
+            pfx = ''
+        return ''
+    elif cmd in ('include',
+                 'chapter',
+                 'chapimg',
+                 'chapauth',
+                 'illustration',
+                 'scriptsize',
+                 'section*',
+                 'part'):
+        return '#%s %s' % (cmd, txt)
+    elif cmd in ('pagenumbering',
+                 'includegraphics',
+                 'newcommand',
+                 'hbox'):
+        return ''
+    elif cmd in ('TeX',
+                 'LaTeX'):
+        return cmd
+    else:
+        print(cmd, txt)
+        raise TypeError(cmd)
+
+decor_stack = []
+decor_re = re.compile(r'({\\(?P<cmd>\w\w) ?|})')
+
+def decorsub(m):
+    cmd = m.group('cmd')
+    if not cmd:
+        if not decor_stack:
+            return m.group(0)
+        cmd = decor_stack.pop()
+        return '</%s>' % cmd
+    else:
+        if cmd == 'bf':
+            cmd = 'strong'
+        elif cmd == 'em':
+            pass
+        elif cmd == 'sc':
+            decor_stack.append('span')
+            return '<span class="sc">'
+        else:
+            raise TypeError(cmd)
+        decor_stack.append(cmd)
+        return '<%s>' % cmd
+
+def art(artist, url, title=None):
+    alt = title or ("Artwork by %s" % artist)
+    print('<div class="art">')
+    print('<img src="%s" alt="%s" />' % (url, alt))
+    if title:
+        print('<em>%s</em> by %s' % (title, artist))
+    else:
+        print(alt)
+    print('</div>')
+
+outbuf = ''
+
+def outline(l):
+    global chapimg, chapauth, outbuf
+
+    l = l.strip()
+    if not l:
+        print(outbuf)
+    elif l[0] == '%':
+        return
+    l = l.replace(r'\'e', 'é')
+    l = l.replace(r'\,c', 'ç')
+    l = l.replace(r'\'n', 'ń')
+    l = l.replace("''", '&rdquo;')
+    l = l.replace("``", '&ldquo;')
+    l = l.replace("'", '&rsquo;')
+    l = l.replace("`", '&lsquo;')
+    l = l.replace('---', '&mdash;')
+    l = l.replace('--', '&ndash;')
+    l = l.replace('\\\\', '<br />')
+    l = l.replace('\_', '_')
+    l = l.replace('\#', '#')
+    l = l.replace('\$', '$')
+    l = l.replace('\ ', ' ')
+    l = l.replace(r'\-', '')
+    l = l.replace(r'\~n', 'ñ')
+    l = l.replace(r'{\ldots}', '&hellip;')
+    l = l.replace(r'\ldots', '&hellip;')
+    l = l.replace(r'\copyright', '&copy;')
+    l = block1_re.sub(texsub, l)
+    l = block2_re.sub(texsub, l)
+    l = l.replace('{}', '')
+    l = decor_re.sub(decorsub, l)
+
+    if not l:
+        return
+    if l[0] == '#':
+        if l.startswith('#include'):
+            include(l[9:] + '.tex')
+        elif l.startswith('#chapimg'):
+            chapimg = l[9:-1].split('{')
+        elif l.startswith('#chapauth'):
+            chapauth = l[10:]
+        elif l.startswith('#chapter'):
+            print('<h1 class="chapter">%s</h1>' % l[9:])
+            if chapauth:
+                print('<h2 class="author">by %s</h2>' % chapauth)
+                chapauth = None
+            if chapimg:
+                art(chapimg[0], chapimg[1])
+                chapimg = None
+        elif l.startswith('#part'):
+            print('<h1 class="part">%s</h1>' % l[6:])
+        elif l.startswith('#illustration'):
+            artist, title, url = l[14:].split('{')
+            title = title[:-1]
+            url = url[:-1]
+            art(artist, url, title)
+        elif l.startswith('#section*'):
+            print('<h2 class="section">%s</h2>' % l[10:])
+        else:
+            print('<--! %s -->' % l)
+    elif l[0] == '\\':
+        what = l[1:5].lower()
+        if what in ('bigs', 'vfil'):
+            print('<br class="bigskip"/>')
+        elif what == 'newp':
+            print('<br class="pagebreak"/>')
+        elif what == 'noin':
+            print(l[10:])
+        elif what in ('hbox',
+                      'inde',
+                      'tabl',
+                      'appe',
+                      'page',
+                      'list'):
+            pass
+        elif l[1:9] == 'maketitl':
+            print('<h1>Horrors 2</h1>')
+            print('<h2>The Something Awful Forums</h2>')
+        else:
+            print('================= %r' % what)
+    elif display:
+        print('%s%s' % (pfx, l))
+
+def include(fn):
+    if fn == 'praise.tex':
+        return
+    f = open(fn)
+
+    for l in f:
+        outline(l)
+
+f = open('horrors2.ltx')
+
+# skip LaTeX crap
+for l in f:
+    if l.startswith('\\begin{document'):
+        break
+
+for l in f:
+    outline(l)
+