From 8c78f72263390222b0d893bd0eb7befe3961209e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Alex A. Naanou" <alex.nanou@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2023 21:51:20 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] refactoring...

Signed-off-by: Alex A. Naanou <alex.nanou@gmail.com>
---
 scripts/README.md       | 13 ++++++++++++-
 scripts/make-spreads.sh |  5 +++++
 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/scripts/README.md b/scripts/README.md
index 7ff304d..3e09c0c 100644
--- a/scripts/README.md
+++ b/scripts/README.md
@@ -198,7 +198,18 @@ If only one image/text file is provided then `make-spreads.sh` will set it
 on the right page of the spread using the appropriate page template and
 leave the left page blank.
 
-<!-- XXX do we need a `blankpage.tex` template??? -->
+A black page uses `blankpage.tex` template if available, otherwise a
+trivial blank page is used:
+```latex
+\null
+\newpage
+```
+
+<!-- XXX
+Template search order:
+- spread directory
+- template directory
+-->
 
 
 #### Manual template selection
diff --git a/scripts/make-spreads.sh b/scripts/make-spreads.sh
index 438ef61..e55ce90 100644
--- a/scripts/make-spreads.sh
+++ b/scripts/make-spreads.sh
@@ -278,6 +278,7 @@ readCaption(){
 # usage:
 #	getTemplate SPREAD TYPE
 #
+# XXX REVISE...
 getTemplate(){
 	local SPREAD=$1
 	local TYPE=$2
@@ -285,6 +286,10 @@ getTemplate(){
 	if [ -z $TEMPLATE ] ; then
 		TEMPLATE=($SPREAD/*-$TYPE.tpl)
 		if ! [ -z $TEMPLATE ] ; then
+			#TEMPLATE=${TEMPLATE_DIR}/$(echo "${TEMPLATE[0]}" \
+			#	| sed -e "s/$SPREAD\///" \
+			#		-e 's/^[0-9]\+-//' \
+			#		-e "s/-${TYPE}.*$//")
 			TEMPLATE=${TEMPLATE/$SPREAD\//}
 			TEMPLATE=${TEMPLATE/[0-9]-/}
 			TEMPLATE="$TEMPLATE_DIR/${TEMPLATE[0]%-${TYPE}.*}.tex"