From 1eb8c4e7d504b37cd93708074430441beb60852f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Philip Wittamore <philip@wittamore.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2025 09:21:44 +0200
Subject: update

---
 phlogrss  | 75 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------------
 phlogthis | 13 +++++------
 2 files changed, 45 insertions(+), 43 deletions(-)

diff --git a/phlogrss b/phlogrss
index 1dd9af5..192b2c0 100755
--- a/phlogrss
+++ b/phlogrss
@@ -5,36 +5,36 @@
 phloglink="gopher://spike.nagatha.fr/0/phlog"
 description="Phil&#39;s Phlog"
 rsslink=gopher://spike.nagatha.fr/phlog/rss.xml
-feedname=$HOME/src/gopher/phlog/rss.xml
-postDir=$HOME/src/gopher/phlog
-updated=$(date --iso-8601=ns)
+filename=$HOME/src/gopher/phlog/rss.xml
+postdir=$HOME/src/gopher/phlog
+builddate=$(date --iso-8601=ns)
+buildyear=$(date +%Y)
 
 # Build RSS header & footer
-header () {
+build_header () {
 echo "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' ?>
-<rss version='2.0' xmlns:atom='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom'>" > ~/feedtop
-echo "
-<channel>
+<rss version='2.0' xmlns:atom='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom'>" > ~/header
+echo "<channel>
 <title>Phil&#39;s Phlog</title>
-<link>gopher://spike.nagatha.fr</link>
-<description>A Gopher phlog from Brittany, France</description>
-<lastBuildDate>$updated</lastBuildDate>
+<link>gopher://spike.nagatha.fr/1/phlog</link>
 <atom:link href='$rsslink' rel='self' type='application/rss+xml' />
-" >> ~/feedtop
+<language>en-us</language>
+<copyright>© $buildyear Philip A. Wittamore - All Rights Reserved</copyright>
+<lastBuildDate>$builddate</lastBuildDate>
+<description>A Gopher phlog from Brittany, France</description>
+" >> ~/header
 }
 
-footer () {
+build_footer () {
 echo "
 </channel>
 </rss>
-" >> ~/feedbottom
+" >> ~/footer
 }
 
-# Function: Build Item add to feed
-
-item () {
+build_item () {
   echo "<item>
-  <title>$fullTitle</title>
+  <title>$title</title>
   <pubDate>$postdate</pubDate>
   <link>$linkadd</link>
   <guid>$linkadd</guid>
@@ -42,34 +42,37 @@ item () {
 </item>" >> ~/feed
 }
 
-# Function: Concatenate everything
-
-combine () {
-        header
-        footer
-        cat ~/feedtop ~/feed > ~/feedtb
-        cat ~/feedtb ~/feedbottom > $feedname
-        rm ~/feedtop ~/feed ~/feedtb ~/feedbottom
+build_xml_file () {
+        build_header
+        build_footer
+        cat ~/header ~/feed > ~/rss_tmp
+        cat ~/rss_tmp ~/footer > "$filename"
+        rm ~/header ~/feed ~/rss_tmp ~/footer
 }
 
-# Run through files and create rss.xml
+# list files and create rss.xml
 
-if [[ -f $feedname ]]; then
-  rm $feedname
+if [[ -f $filename ]]; then
+  rm "$filename"
 fi
-touch $feedname
-mapfile -t postArray < <(ls -t "$postDir"/*.txt)
+
+touch "$filename"
+mapfile -t post_array < <(ls -t "$postdir"/*.txt)
 postNum=0
-for posts in "${postArray[@]}"; do
+
+for posts in "${post_array[@]}"; do
   ((postNum+=1))
   post=$posts
-  fullTitle=$(head -n1 "$post" | sed 's/title://g')
-  postdate=$(cat $post | sed -n '2p' | sed 's/date://g')
+  title=$(head -n1 "$post" | sed 's/title://g')
+  postdate=$(cat "$post" | sed -n '2p' | sed 's/date://g')
   postname=${post##*/}
   linkadd="$phloglink/$postname"
-  description="$(cat $post | sed -n "/^$/,/^$/p" | head --lines 3) …"
-  item "$post"
+  description="$(cat "$post" | sed -n "/^$/,/^$/p" | head --lines 3) …"
+  build_item "$post"
 done
-  combine
+
+  # put it all together
+  build_xml_file
+
 exit
 
diff --git a/phlogthis b/phlogthis
index 08410e1..4dc7fd0 100755
--- a/phlogthis
+++ b/phlogthis
@@ -1,8 +1,7 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 
 # create phlog entry, rebuild gophermap
-# requires par for text formatting
-
+# requires the text formating utility 'par'
 
 root=$HOME/src/gopher/phlog
 
@@ -22,17 +21,18 @@ dest="$root/$article"
 
 micro +4:1 "$editfile"
 
-# article
-cat "$editfile" | par -jw67 >> "$article"
+# Justify article. This may fail if a 
+# non-empty line doesn't contain spaces
+cat "$editfile" | par -jw67 > $article
 
-header="title:$title\ndate:$articledate\n\n" 
+header="title:$title\ndate:$articledate\n$(printf '%*s' 66 | tr ' ' '-')\n\n"
 sed -i "1s/^/$header/" $article
 
 mv "$article" "$dest"
 rm $editfile
 echo "Article saved as $dest"
 
-# create gophermap
+# build gophermap
 
 cd $root
 
@@ -43,7 +43,6 @@ echo "" >> gophermap
 echo "0[Rss feed]	/phlog/rss.xml	spike.nagatha.fr	70" >> gophermap
 echo "" >> gophermap
 
-
 files=($(ls -1r *.txt))
 for file in "${files[@]}"; do
     echo -e "0$(head -n 1 $file | sed s/title://g)\t/phlog/$file\tspike.nagatha.fr\t70" >> gophermap
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