Check-in by ben on 2025-05-01 04:12:36

Add About section with links

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        32          0 periodic.awk
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Index: periodic.awk
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--- periodic.awk
+++ periodic.awk
@@ -147,10 +147,39 @@
 
 function mkdir(dir) {
     system("mkdir -p \"" dir "\"")
     return
 }
+
+function print_about(    dir, f) {
+    dir = outdir "/about"
+    mkdir(dir)
+    f = dir "/index.gph"
+
+    print "# About Gopher Periodic Table of the Elements\n" >f
+    print "I wrote this AWK script as a fun and easy exercise." >>f
+    print "Generating a simple gopher interface from CSV data.\n" >>f
+    print "# See also\n" >>f
+
+    print "[1|A Visual Exploration (PDF)|/~bencollver/ia"      \
+        "/details/the-elements-by-theodore-gray-and-nick-mann" \
+        "|tilde.pink|70]" >>f
+
+    print "[1|Periodic Table (DOS)|/~bencollver/ia" \
+        "/details/periodic-table-for-dos|tilde.pink|70]" >>f
+
+    print "[1|ATOMS (DOS)|/~bencollver/ia" \
+        "/details/atoms-periodic-table-for-dos|tilde.pink|70]" >>f
+
+    print "[0|ASCII Periodic Table|"                   \
+        "/users/amr66/b_scientific/periodic_table.txt" \
+        "|gopher.srcf.net|70]" >>f
+
+    close(f)
+    return
+}
+
 
 function print_element_gph(element,    cmd, count, dir, f, i, key, \
     label, mass, name, path, source_list, source, str, symbol)
 {
     dir = outdir "/element/" element
@@ -849,10 +878,12 @@
     printf "             Periodic Table Of The Elements\n\n" >f
     print_table(f)
     printf "\n" >>f    
     printf "[1|List All|%s/list/atomic/|%s|%s]\n", gopher_dir,
         gopher_host, gopher_port >>f
+    printf "[1|About|%s/about/|%s|%s]\n", gopher_dir, gopher_host, \
+        gopher_port >>f
     printf "[h|Source Code|URL:%s|tilde.pink|70]\n", uri >>f
     close(f)
     return
 }
 
@@ -942,10 +973,11 @@
     csv_read("data/families.csv", families)
     csv_read("data/shells.csv", shells)
     csv_read("data/sources.csv", sources)
     make_source_lookup()
     make_table()
+    print_about()
     print_elements()
     print_families()
     print_lists()
     print_shells()
     print_sources()