Page Label Generator

The Page Label Generator is a module that automatically generates page labels for "book-like" objects in a variety of ways. See the example usage section below to see the variety of page labeling options such as roman numberals, back-to-front, foliation, and starting numbers.

The Page Label Generator was originally written by Jon Stroop for Plum. This project cleans up some code, adds tape as a testing framework, and publishes it as a npm module for easy inclusion into browser-based apps.

Requires

If you want to run this code in the browser as part of your app, you will need webpack and you will need to add the babel polyfill at the top of your entry script like so:

import babelPolyfill from 'babel-polyfill'

Install

$ npm install

Test and Lint

$ npm test
$ npm run lint

Compile (Transpile to es5)

npm run compile

Example usage in web app

See the Webpack Demo project and the Tonic notebook.

Try it in the babel shell:

Start a shell session:

 $ babel-node

Basic Numbering

> let mod = require("./src/labelGen").default;
> let gen = mod.pageLabelGenerator();
> gen.next().value;
'1'
> gen.next().value;
'2'
> gen.next().value;
'3'

> let opts = { start: 1, unitLabel: "p. ", bracket: true}
> let gen = mod.pageLabelGenerator(opts);
> gen.next().value;
'[p. 5]'
> gen.next().value;
'[p. 6]'
> gen.next().value;
'[p. 7]'
> gen.next().value;
'[p. 8]'

Foliation

> let mod = require("./src/labelGen").default;
> let opts = { start: 42, method: "foliate", frontLabel: " r", backLabel: " v", unitLabel: "f. "};
> let gen = mod.pageLabelGenerator(opts);
> gen.next().value;
'f. 42 r'
> gen.next().value;
'f. 42 v'
> gen.next().value;
'f. 43 r'
> gen.next().value;
'f. 43 v'

> let opts = { start: 42, method: "foliate", frontLabel: "r", backLabel: "v", startWith: "back", unitLabel: "f. ", bracket: true};
> let gen = mod.pageLabelGenerator(opts);
> gen.next().value;
'[f. 42v]'
> gen.next().value;
'[f. 43r]'
> gen.next().value;
'[f. 43v]'
> gen.next().value;
'[f. 44r]'
> gen.next().value;
'[f. 44v]'

Roman Numerals

> let mod = require("./src/labelGen").default;
> let opts = { start: 'i', unitLabel: "p. "};
> let gen = mod.pageLabelGenerator(opts);
> gen.next().value;
'p. i'
> gen.next().value;
'p. ii'
> gen.next().value;
'p. iii'
> gen.next().value;
'p. iv'

> let opts = { start: 'xlii', method: "foliate", backLabel: " (verso)", startWith: "back", unitLabel: "f. ", bracket: true};
> let gen = mod.pageLabelGenerator(opts);
> gen.next().value;
'[f. xlii (verso)]'
> gen.next().value;
'[f. xliii]'
> gen.next().value;
'[f. xliii (verso)]'
> gen.next().value;
'[f. xliv]'
> gen.next().value;
'[f. xliv (verso)]'
> gen.next().value;
'[f. xlv]'

> let opts = { unitLabel: 'p. ', bracketOdds: true };
> let gen = mod.pageLabelGenerator(opts);
> gen.next().value
'[p. 1]'
> gen.next().value
'p. 2'
> gen.next().value
'[p. 3]'
> gen.next().value
'p. 4'

> let opts = { unitLabel: 'p. ', bracketEvens: true };
> let gen = mod.pageLabelGenerator(opts);
> gen.next().value
'p. 1'
> gen.next().value
'[p. 2]'
> gen.next().value
'p. 3'
> gen.next().value
'[p. 4]'

2 Ups

> let mod = require("./src/labelGen").default;
> let opts = { start: 42, twoUp: true}
> let gen = mod.pageLabelGenerator(opts);
> gen.next().value
'42/43'
> gen.next().value
'44/45'
> gen.next().value
'46/47'
> gen.next().value
'48/49'

> let opts = { start: 42, unitLabel: "p. ", twoUp: true, twoUpSeparator: "-"}
> let gen = mod.pageLabelGenerator(opts);
> gen.next().value
'p. 43-42'
> gen.next().value
'p. 45-44'
> gen.next().value
'p. 47-46'
> gen.next().value
'p. 49-48'

> let opts = { start: 42, method: "foliate", frontLabel: "a", backLabel: "b", startWith: "back", unitLabel: "f. ", bracket: true, twoUp: true, twoUpDir: "rtl"}
> let gen = mod.pageLabelGenerator(opts);
> gen.next().value
'[f. 43a/42b]'
> gen.next().value
'[f. 44a/43b]'
> gen.next().value
'[f. 45a/44b]'
> gen.next().value
'[f. 46a/45b]'

> let opts = { twoUp: true, twoUpBracketRightOnly: true };
> let gen = mod.pageLabelGenerator(opts);
> gen.next().value
'1/[2]'
> gen.next().value
'3/[4]'
> gen.next().value
'5/[6]'
> gen.next().value
'7/[8]'

> let opts = { twoUp: true, twoUpBracketLeftOnly: true };
> let gen = mod.pageLabelGenerator(opts);
> gen.next().value
'[1]/2'
> gen.next().value
'[3]/4'
> gen.next().value
'[5]/6'
> gen.next().value
'[7]/8'

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