Apps Script to linkify numbered references in Google Document
Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.
Robert Heinlein, Time Enough For Love
A Google Apps Script that i wrote to ease my job for Adblock Plus
It is a "bound script" which means that it exists only in scope of Google Document where the three source files are copied into through "Tools/Script Editor..." and then any future copy of such template document. It is currently configurable just through variables in code at the top of Main.gs but fairly flexible from there. I may make it a proper Addon one day. So far it was rather a probe into a maturity and easiness of usage of GAS (hint: okay but not great, feels half baked)
Creates a new item in Docs menu and two actions in there:
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Convert All : finds all configured tokens and replaces it by a link to a web resource where the link contains the numerical part of the token. The link is followed by a plain text of "summary" which is fetched from the constructed link.
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Convert Selected : does the same but just with the currently selected text range. The token form is slightly more permissive.
Most of the above function is configurable in Main.gs. What consists a "summary" and how it is parsed out is pretty much hardcoded at the moment though. Sorry. Have a look into TracFetch.gs
See my StackOverflow question, depicting the above half-bakedness statement.