I think that I shall never see, an algorithm as lovely as a trie

[MichaelPaulukonis]

Let's do this thing.

I'm playing with some code over @ https://github.com/MichaelPaulukonis/NaPoGenMo2015

An output (so far) is at http://www.xradiograph.com/PrantedMutter/Howled

[MichaelPaulukonis]

I'm taking this month as the goad to finally transform (at least parts of) my C# "TextMunger" project into Javascript. Of sorts. It won't be a monolithic tool. I don't know what it will be.

But, it will be things, or a start of things.

So.

"ShortLines" was a transformation that takes text and chops it off at the knees, only the rest of the body gets to continue on the next line. To mix a bad metaphor.

https://github.com/MichaelPaulukonis/NaPoGenMo2015/blob/master/transformers/shortlines.js

and some output (yaaay, TimeCube!):

https://gist.github.com/MichaelPaulukonis/8db3447f6335d0e7ac91

[enkiv2]

If you added spurious whitespace to the middle of lines, you could make an
e e cummings generator.

On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 3:37 PM Michael Paulukonis notifications@github.com
wrote:

I'm taking this month as the goad to finally transform (at least parts of)
my C# "TextMunger" project into Javascript. Of sorts. It won't be a
monolithic tool. I don't know what it will be.

But, it will be things, or a start of things.

So.

"ShortLines" was a transformation that takes text and chops it off at the
knees, only the rest of the body gets to continue on the next line. To mix
a bad metaphor.

https://github.com/MichaelPaulukonis/NaPoGenMo2015/blob/master/transformers/shortlines.js

and some output (yaaay, TimeCube!):

https://gist.github.com/MichaelPaulukonis/8db3447f6335d0e7ac91

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[MichaelPaulukonis]

There are more transformations to come. But in the middle of lines I had not specifically thought of before; I was more thinking along the lines of Lawrence Ferlenghetti at the time (A Coney Island of the Mind was the first collection of poetry that I consciously recall reading and thinking of as poetry; nursery-rhymes aside).

[MichaelPaulukonis]

heijinian implemented, and shortlines and initial spaces reworked along a pipeline model from @cpressey

sample output