a 2013 NaNoGenMo project
by Leonard Richardson
"In Dialogue" extracts the dialogue from Project Gutenberg ebooks and provides a tool for replacing all the dialogue from one text with dialogue from another.
The NaNoGenMo entry itself is in two parts found in the entry/ directory, and can also be read on my web site.
To generate your own texts, run 0-extract-dialogue.py, then
1-generate-book.py. The 1-generate-book.py script will show you
which texts are available.
You can add new texts by downloading Project Gutenberg files into the raw/ directory. For example, these commands will add "Oliver Twist" to the list of available texts:
$ wget http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/730.txt.utf-8 -O raw/730.txt.utf-8
$ ./0-extract-dialogue.py
Then, this command prints the text of "A Christmas Carol", with all the dialogue replaced with dialogue from "Oliver Twist":
$ ./1-generate-book.py "A Christmas Twist" 46 730