The Twee command line tool has an option to merge passages from a Twee/Twine-produced HTML file into the story being compiled. I'm wondering why anyone would want to do that, rather than putting the passages in Twee format source files.
If you're using this feature, please tell me what you use it for. If no-one speaks up, I'll remove the feature.
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story1.twee + story2.html ==> full_story.html
I don't know if it's used. I'm sure no one know that it's even possible to do this (I didn't before now).
I can't think of a use case right now, but maybe there is one that we just can't see now.
Yes. I can imagine someone wanting to put a story in multiple Twee source files, but I don't see a use case for using an HTML file as a source file.
However, it would surely be better practice to just create a customized version of the header file.
That won't work: the merge feature only loads passages from the HTML, it ignores the rest of the file.
http://www.glorioustrainwrecks.com/files/Twine_HTML_Twee_Converter_0.html
Very useful to explore a story and look at how some of the tricks work.
I used this to generate the RSS feed on the the home page of gimcrackd.com (which I no longer update, so I took the feed link off -- but it's here). I imagine approximately zero other people ever did this.
I already removed the RSS feature when importing Twee into the Twine repository, but I kept the merge feature then since I thought it might be useful for story authors. Like Erik, I originally assumed it allowed custom HTML to be added to a story. After learning what it actually did, I had doubts if it was actually useful for story authors.
I'll remove it then. Thanks for explaining its origins.