Can now generate as many words as you want

index.html

@@ -12,10 +12,12 @@
       <p class="subtitle">A rearrangement of <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/22472">Charles Fort's <i>The Book of the Damned</i></a> using <a href="https://compromise.cool/">compromise</a> | by <a href="https://mikelynch.org">Mike Lynch</a> | <a href="https://git.tilde.town/bombinans/damned-fort">Source</a></p>
     </div>
     <div id="frame">
-    <div id="page"></div>
     <div id="controls">
-      <input id="nextPage" type="button" value="more" />
+      <input id="nextPage" type="button" value="next page" /> or
+      <input id="nWords" type="text" value="50000" size="6"/>
+      <input id="makeLots" type="button" value="words" />
     </div>
+    <div id="page"></div>
     <script type="module" src="/src/main.js"></script>
 
   </body>

src/main.js

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import helpers from 'wink-helpers';
 import './style.css';
 
 const CHUNK_SIZE = 1024;
+const PAGE_TIME = 100;
 
 function scramble(words) {
   const w = words.map(o => o.text());
@@ -15,6 +16,7 @@ function scramble(words) {
 
 function make_fragments(verbs, nouns) {
   const fragments = [];
+  let wc = 0;
   while( verbs.length > 0 && nouns.length > 0 ) {
     const v = verbs.pop();
     const n = nouns.pop();
@@ -36,7 +38,7 @@ async function damned_fort() {
   const text = await response.text();
 
   let i = 0;
-  return () => {
+  return ( append ) => {
     const chunk = text.substring(i, i + CHUNK_SIZE);
     if( chunk ) {
       const div = document.getElementById("page");
@@ -44,22 +46,52 @@ async function damned_fort() {
       const v = scramble(doc.verbs());
       const n = scramble(doc.nouns());
       const fragments = make_fragments(n, v);
-      div.innerHTML = `<p>${fragments.join('<br />')}</p>`;
+      const fdoc = nlp(fragments.join(' '));
+      const wc = fdoc.terms().length;
+      const hfrag = `<p>${fragments.join('<br />')}</p>`;
+      if( append ) {
+        div.innerHTML += hfrag;
+      } else {
+        div.innerHTML = hfrag;
+      }
       i +=CHUNK_SIZE;
+      return wc;
     } else {
       i = 0;
+      return 0;
     }
+
   }
 }
 
+
+
+function recurse_make(target, makef) {
+  const new_target = target - makef(true);
+  if( new_target > 0 ) {
+    document.getElementById("nWords").value = String(new_target);
+    setTimeout(() => { recurse_make(new_target, makef) }, PAGE_TIME);
+  }
+}
+
+
 async function main() {
 
   const next_ctrl = await damned_fort();
   const next = document.getElementById("nextPage");
 
-  next.addEventListener("click", (e) => { next_ctrl(); });
+  next.addEventListener("click", (e) => { next_ctrl(false); });
-  next_ctrl();
+  next_ctrl(true);
+  const makeLots = document.getElementById("makeLots");
+  makeLots.addEventListener("click", (e) => {
+    const nwords = Number(document.getElementById("nWords").value);
+    if( ! isNaN(nwords) ) {
+      recurse_make(nwords, next_ctrl);
+    };
+  });
 }
 
 
+
+
 main();