/quotations

Large collection of favourite quotes, in a structured text file. PDF generated from the text file.

Quotations collected over a lifetime of reading. I write quotations down while reading a good book. I have several thousand collected in binders. The quotes saved in this repo are my favourites.

Source file: quotes.txt

Structured data file, UTF-8 encoding, typed in manually. No repeated data. The source file uses ad hoc symbols to denote the need for special processing of the text:

  • pre(...) is meant to preserve white space (lines of poetry)
  • em(...) is meant for emphasis/italics

Generated files

I have code that talks to the above source file, and generates a PDF, suitable for printing. That code is not included here. Only the data is included here. However, I do include the output of the code, as two derived files.

quotes_flat_file.txt

This repeats data (author name, title). One quote per line.

quotes_book.pdf

Final output as a printable PDF. The PDF can be printed in book form. See, for example, lulu.com.