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text/colophon.txt

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+generated with python
+git.systerserver.net/mara/zine_maker

text/cover.txt

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+oulipo poems

text/cover_readme.txt

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+ZINE MAKER

text/images.txt

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+<img>thumbs/compiler.png<img> 
+<img>thumbs/libs-black.png<img> 
+<img>thumbs/libs-green.png<img> 
+<img>thumbs/mailman-config.png<img> 
+<img>thumbs/system-config.png<img> 
+<img>thumbs/venv.png<img>

text/oulipo.txt

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+Bold Nassan quits his 
+<i>caravan,</i>
+A hazy mountain grot to 
+<i>scan;</i>
+Climis jaggy rocks to find his 
+<i>way,</i>
+Doth tax his sight, iut far doth 
+<i>stray.</i>
+
+Not work of man, nor sport of 
+<i>child</i>
+Finds Nassan on this mazy 
+<i>wild;</i>
+Lax grow his joints, limis toil in 
+<i>vain-</i>
+Poor wight! why didst thou quit that 
+<i>plain?</i>
+
+Vainly for succour Nassan 
+<i>calls;</i>
+Know, Zillah, that thy Nassan 
+<i>falls;</i>
+But prowling wolf and fox may 
+<i>joy</i>
+To quarry on thy Arai 
+<i>ioy.</i>

text/oulipo1.txt

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+<h2> If Youth, </h2>
+
+throughout all history, had had a champion to stand up for it; 
+to show a doubting world that a child can think; 
+and, possibly, do it practically; 
+you wouldn't constantly run across folks today who claim that "a child don't know anything." 
+A child's brain starts functioning at birth; and has, amongst its many infant convolutions, thousands of dormant atoms, into which God has put a mystic possibility for noticing an adult's act, and figuring out its purport.
+
+# Up to about its primary school days a child thinks, naturally, only of play. 
+But many a form of play contains disciplinary factors. "You can't do this," or "that puts you out," shows a child that it must think, practically, or fail. 
+Now, if, throughout childhood, a brain has no opposition, it is plain that it will attain a position of "status quo," as with our ordinary animals. Man knows not why a cow, dog or lion was not born with a brain on a par with ours; why such animals cannot add, subtract, or obtain from books and schooling, that paramount position which Man holds today. 

text/readme

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+## To Download the project, near the top of the page, click on the download icon next to "WEB IDE".
+You can choose which type of archived folder you want, and then open it in your filesystem.
+
+## OR use git clone:
+```
+git clone https://zine:DskM_8XxtKt-Wym1xHd1@git.systerserver.net/mara/zine_maker.git
+cd zine_maker
+```
+
+
+## Requirements
+You need either python2 or python3 running on the computer
+https://www.python.org/downloads/
+
+And also the pip command 
+https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/installation/ 
+
+Once these are installed, from within zine_maker run:
+
+`pip install -r requirements.txt`
+
+## For merging the cover.pdf, body.pdf and colophon.pdf there are many pdf merger tools,
+one that is command line based is pdfunite
+http://linux-commands-examples.com/pdfunite
+
+from the terminal run:
+
+`pdfunite cover.pdf body.pdf colophon.pdf output.pdf`
+
+## For shuffling the final pdf and prepare it for printing you need the pdfseparate command 
+http://www.linux-commands-examples.com/pdfseparate
+it is used inside the shuffle_pdf.py file (see details at the end of this Readme)
+
+## For making use of images in the script, image magick needs to be installed
+http://www.imagemagick.org/
+
+## To make the content of the pdf 
+`python doc_pdf.py `
+
+OR 
+
+`python doc_pdf.py text/images.txt body/images.pdf`
+
+OR add your text file and replace respectively
+
+`python doc_pdf.py text/<your_file>.txt body/<output-name>.pdf`
+
+## To make the cover of the pdf 
+`python cover.py`
+
+OR
+
+`python cover.py text/cover.txt covers/cover.pdf`
+
+OR add your text file and replace respectively
+
+`python cover.py text/<your-cover>.txt covers/<cover-name>.pdf`
+
+## To make the colophon of the pdf 
+`python cover.py `
+
+OR
+
+`python cover.py text/colophon.txt colophones/colophon.pdf`
+
+OR add your text file and replace respectively
+
+`python cover.py text/<your-colophon>.txt colophones/<output-colophon>.pdf`
+
+## To prepare signatures for printing a small booklet
+`python shuffle_pdf.py final.pdf final_shuffled.pdf`