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Automate HTML calendar output from Methode to be placed in NGPS #9

Open danielpetty opened 9 years ago

danielpetty commented 9 years ago

Currently, designers send raw(ish) text for the daily Sports Radio/TV calendar from Methode to InDesign and then copy and paste that in an email from the night producer to copy and paste. This is cumbersome, and it usually takes 20-30 minutes to prepare each night. We'd like a way to somehow output the text from the Methode file with HTML markup to allow it to be pasted as text in our calendar document. Currently, this requires a lot of formatting.

See here: http://denverpost.com/sportstv

San Diego

6:40 p.m.

ROOT

COLORADO MAMMOTH »303-405-1101

vs. Edmonton Rush, 7 p.m. May 2, ALT2

DENVER Outlaws »303-688-5297

vs. Charlotte Hounds, 3 p.m. May 3

TV HIGHLIGHTS

Baseball

5 p.m. St. Louis Cardinals at Washington Nationals  MLB

6:30 p.m. San Diego Padres at Colorado Rockies  ROOT

NBA playoffs

5 p.m. Boston Celtics at Cleveland Cavaliers    TNT

6 p.m. Washington Wizards at Toronto Raptors    NBA

7:30 p.m. Dallas Mavericks at Houston Rockets   TNT

NHL playoffs

5 p.m. Tampa Bay Lightning at Detroit Red Wings NBCSN

5:30 p.m. Washington Capitals at New York Islanders USA

7:30 p.m. Nashville Predators at Chicago Blackhawks NBCSN

8 p.m. Vancouver Canucks at Calgary Flames  USA

Soccer

12:30 p.m. Paris Saint-Germain vs. Barcelona    FS1

Looking Ahead

TUE 21 WED 22

THU 23

FRI 24

SAT 25 SUN 26 MON 27

COLORADO ROCKIES »-762-5437

COLORADO RAPIDS »303-727-3536

vs. FC Dallas, 8 p.m. Friday

ON THE RADIO

Baseball

6:30 p.m. San Diego Padres at Colorado Rockies 850 AM

APRIL

San Diego

6:40 p.m.

ROOT

Home

AWAY

San Diego

1:10 p.m.

San Fran.

6:40 p.m.

ROOT

San Fran.

6:10 p.m.

ROOT

San Fran.

2:10 p.m.

ROOT

At Arizona

7:40 p.m.

ROOT
freejoe76 commented 8 years ago

How is this workflow going to change with WordPress?

schneidan commented 8 years ago

We'll probably need to talk to TJ about what, if anything, is changing on the print side. My original intention was to have print export the Methode file as HTML and build a simple interpreter where that HTML could be pasted into a textarea, and which would then process it into whatever we want for the web and replace the contents of the textarea, which could then be pasted into NGPS -- or, now, WP.

tjhutchinson commented 8 years ago

Hi. I chatted with Dan Petty about this on the phone this morning. The calendar is made in InDesign. It is exported to Methode as a PDF and then exported (emailed) to dp sp online as both an html and jpg (for visual reference). So Methode file is never actually sent to NGPS or online...

On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 9:33 AM, Daniel J. Schneider < notifications@github.com> wrote:

We'll probably need to talk to TJ about what, if anything, is changing on the print side. My original intention was to have print export the Methode file as HTML and build a simple interpreter where that HTML could be pasted into a textarea, and which would then process it into whatever we want for the web and replace the contents of the textarea, which could then be pasted into NGPS -- or, now, WP.

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freejoe76 commented 8 years ago

@tjhutchinson what does the html that's sent to dp sp online look like?