Directory macros/latex/contrib/gamebooklib

Copyright (C) 2021 by Robert J Lee

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The gamebooklib package, provides a convenient set of macros to assist
the author choosing to develop a gamebook. In particular, it aims to
solve 2 non-trivial issues:

1) Writing a set of entries in order, then shuffling them in the
output routine, preserving reference links, and

2) Allowing LaTeX to output footnotes at the end of an entry, in the
case where another entry falls below the footnote mark on the page.


This package uses the standard TeX .dtx+.ins install mechanism,
although a UNIX Makefile is provided for convenience to generate all
files.

The file "gamebooklib_test.tex" provides a simple demonstration of
this library.

The file "gamebooklib_countpagesperseed.sh" is a utility script using
bash, perl and pdflatex that will report on the number of pages for
your document, when entries are shuffled with different pseudorandom
seeds. This is useful if you have large objects such as graphics and
want to minimise needless white space. Further instructions are
provided in the header of that file.

It is suggested that the gamebooklib_countpagesperseed.sh utility
should be placed on the system path for ease of use, or into any
utility scripts directory.