Searchable database of comics?

[louisxiv]

Mar 21, 2022 19:20:27 GMT Runningflame said:

Hey louisxiv --first, I want to echo everyone's sentiments about how great of a resource this index is. What's your current policy on tagging a character when they are mentioned but don't appear? I ask because I was looking for this page, and I remembered that Annie says "Ysengrin explained what she [Jones] is," so I searched for Ysengrin + Jones--but it turns out neither of them is tagged on that page. Would it be worth adding those tags, or are character mentions too numerous to bother with? Thanks!

Thanks for the kind words. Apologies for the delay getting back - I'm struggling to keep up to date with the forum, clearly.

Mostly I tag characters and stuff I think may be significant/memorable that you can see in the page art. Plus characters off-screen but 'present' through a speech bubble.

I probably have tagged mentioned characters occasionally, when I've thought it particularly significant, like I tag mentions of Omega.

I'm open to adding mentions as a specific taggable, if there is wide support for the idea, but it'd take a while to backfill, checking the whole comic.

[louisxiv]

... Thinking about this, wasn't there a project to transcribe all the comic text - that would be a useful resource in itself, but particularly for adding name checks to the index page. I haven't noticed mention of it for a while, but is that around somewhere, anyone?

Update: found transcripts in the Fan Project, but only go as far as Chapter 5. I have a feeling there was something else too, but I don't see it right now.

[louisxiv]

And the index page is now updated to Gunnerkrigg Court page 2604, covering 2670 pages with 1137 tags.

[Runningflame]

Apr 2, 2022 9:57:46 GMT louisxiv said:

... Thinking about this, wasn't there a project to transcribe all the comic text - that would be a useful resource in itself, but particularly for adding name checks to the index page. I haven't noticed mention of it for a while, but is that around somewhere, anyone?

Update: found transcripts in the Fan Project, but only go as far as Chapter 5. I have a feeling there was something else too, but I don't see it right now.

Yes, it's this thread. As of now, it looks like the following chapters have been transcribed: 1-38, 42-44, 50-55, 60-71. The transcript exists in multiple Google Docs documents, one per book (links are here).

[louisxiv]

Runningflame Thanks, that's it.

The format will need a bit of massaging and cleanup to be useful, but it would certainly make adding namechecks – and perhaps other keywords – more practical for the chapters it covers.

So...

1. Is there wider support for the idea of including speech bubbles namechecks in the index entries?
   
2. If so, is anyone wiling to contribute by supplying me with simple lists – e.g. page number <tab> name – I can use to update the index? That would surely speed up any implementation.
3. ...and perhaps a rush of volunteers to add cover for the untranscribed chapters?
   

[louisxiv]

Footnote:

Transcribing generally should be a lot easier than a full retype from screen text now given improvements of capturing text off an image these days.

For example, I use TextSniper (from macOS app store) to pick up the index page's speech bubble quote for each comic page now if it is more than half a dozen words. There's break-even point between just retyping manually and grabbing and cleaning the odd capitalisation produced from Tom's use of Ale And Wenches font.

[louisxiv]

Just been catching up with the forum and noticed @corri was looking for previous appearances of Tea recently, which reminds me to post this reminder & update...

The Gunnerkrigg Court Index is at www.louisxiv.co.uk/gunnerkrigg/. It covers Gunnerkrigg Court page 1 to 2702 and some of the side comics for a total of 2768 pages and 1192 tags of people, places and things.

Updates every week or two, when I get a moment.

[warrl]

Here's the search-engine page for the Carry On comic.

And for Freefall. It's no accident they look rather similar - I don't remember which came first, but the same guy maintains both.

[Runningflame]

Nov 5, 2022 16:44:20 GMT warrl said:

Here's the search-engine page for the Carry On comic.

And for Freefall. It's no accident they look rather similar - I don't remember which came first, but the same guy maintains both.

Looks like Freefall came first.

[louisxiv]

A New Year Resolution

Just in case I get run over by the figurative - or actual - bus:

It occurs to me that I haven't updated the Github repository where I shared the data files for the index, several years since...

As Github rather made my head ache and I don't have the client software installed these days, I've added the two plain text files the index is based on to the index site itself — where I am likely to update them more frequently.

www.louisxiv.co.uk/gunnerkrigg/index.txt

www.louisxiv.co.uk/gunnerkrigg/alltags.txt

The index lists 2793 pages, with 1201 tags of people, places, things and chapters — of which 605 have descriptions in alltags.txt

[louisxiv]

Just a quick reminder that the Gunnerkrigg Court Index is at www.louisxiv.co.uk/gunnerkrigg/.
It covers Gunnerkrigg Court page 1 to 2795 and some of the side comics
for a total of 2861 pages, 1245 tags of people, places and things.

A little side project:



... putting this index into an obsidian.md linked notes / desktop wiki.

[louisxiv]

A glitch corrected: I had a brainfart a few weeks back and started tagging Antimony as Antimony for the last 20-30 pages, rather than Annie for the previous nearly 3,000 pages.

I apologise for the error.

The index lists 2,912 pages (including some of the side-comics) and 1,265 tags.

[louisxiv]

My thanks to Seth Golub for pointing out:

I think Page 1779 <https://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1779> should have the
AnnieCut <https://www.louisxiv.co.uk/gunnerkrigg/#anniecut> tag.

Indeed it should. Now added.

The Gunnerkrigg Index currently lists 3029 pages of the main comic and some sidecomics, with 1301 selectable tags of people, places and things.

[imaginaryfriend]

Jul 6, 2024 12:21:53 GMT louisxiv said:

The Gunnerkrigg Index currently lists 3029 pages of the main comic and some sidecomics, with 1301 selectable tags of people, places and things.

Thanks to your index I'm pretty sure I've got three, maybe even four people on this forum convinced that I'm smart!

[louisxiv]

Jul 6, 2024 14:24:42 GMT imaginaryfriend said:

Jul 6, 2024 12:21:53 GMT louisxiv said:

The Gunnerkrigg Index currently lists 3029 pages of the main comic and some sidecomics, with 1301 selectable tags of people, places and things.

Thanks to your index I'm pretty sure I've got three, maybe even four people on this forum convinced that I'm smart!

Smart is knowing where to look to find a thing you don't know, so I suspect they are right.

[Sky Schemer]

It's too late to help me now, but adding a tag for "Title Card" might not be a bad idea. The index was the first place I looked before resigning myself to reviewing the whole comic from start to finish.

[louisxiv]

Jul 6, 2024 23:41:21 GMT Sky Schemer said:

It's too late to help me now, but adding a tag for "Title Card" might not be a bad idea. The index was the first place I looked before resigning myself to reviewing the whole comic from start to finish. :)

A reason why I haven't tagged something:

Title Card? Sorry, what’s that?

[imaginaryfriend]

Jul 8, 2024 7:55:26 GMT louisxiv said:

Jul 6, 2024 23:41:21 GMT Sky Schemer said:

It's too late to help me now, but adding a tag for "Title Card" might not be a bad idea. The index was the first place I looked before resigning myself to reviewing the whole comic from start to finish.

A reason why I haven't tagged something:

Title Card? Sorry, what’s that?

He's talking about those transitional panels that are entirely or mostly just text and are not bookmarking chapters. We used them recently to make stuff for giggles. They are distinct but I'm not sure they're worthy of tagging. Here is my final version of the collage, some of them have been screwed with.

[louisxiv]

Jul 8, 2024 8:44:59 GMT imaginaryfriend said:

Jul 8, 2024 7:55:26 GMT louisxiv said:

A reason why I haven't tagged something:

Title Card? Sorry, what’s that?

He's talking about those transitional panels that are entirely or mostly just text and are not bookmarking chapters. We used them recently to make stuff for giggles. They are distinct but I'm not sure they're worthy of tagging. Here is my final version of the collage, some of them have been screwed with.

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Ah, thanks!

Hmm, though I kind of see the appeal, I'm not inclined to trawl back though the comic to find them all myself.

Any of the title card tweaking junkies got a list of page numbers?

And: is TitleCard a suitable tag for them? It wasn't obvious to me.

[Sky Schemer]

Jul 8, 2024 9:34:02 GMT louisxiv said:

Any of the title card tweaking junkies got a list of page numbers?

And: is TitleCard a suitable tag for them? It wasn't obvious to me.

I'm drawing on terminology from silent cinema. The more accurate term is probably "intertitle", but that's a little obscure. "Title card" is a more modern usage.

And, yes, I do happen to have all the page numbers of these. Assuming I didn't miss any:

• 973 - "Smitty is totally fine with this situation"
• 1270 - "A few minutes of hasty planning later"
• 1886 - "The Next Day" (appears twice)
• 1908 - "Cool Beans"
• 1918 - "Time Passes"
• 2088 - "After once more explaining the situation"
• 2325 - "She Does"
  
• 2956 - "They Explain"

I wouldn't count 572 "Mission Complete" since that actually appears in the Dr. Disaster simulation. Not really an intertitle so much as just...a title. There's maybe a stronger case for 179 "The End?" but I'd still leave it out as it isn't its own panel.

[imaginaryfriend]

Ninja'd!

A fast bit of research suggests that if someone is looking for them for scholarly reasons they might call them expository interpanels. They are transitional panels but not all transitional panels are expository interpanels; same goes for just calling them title cards or interpanels. Not sure how to contract that into a useful tag without making it misleading.

[Sky Schemer]

I like the way "transitional expository interpanel title cards" rolls off the tongue.

[Per]

"Full-panel captions"?

[louisxiv]

1) Tag 'em all from orbit, it's the only way to be sure.

2) 'TextPane' as the tag and define as:

Pane of mostly/only explanatory text e.g. "Later" or "The End" in big letters

- and leave scholars to decide whether a particular TextPane is a functional 'transitional expository interpanel title card' or not?

Thoughts?

[louisxiv]

The Gunnerkrigg Index currently lists 3030 pages of the main and some side comics, with 1302 selectable tags of people, places and things including the ‘Title Card’-like TextPane.