Cleaning and a link

tjunttila · Aug 4, 2020 · bae6be8 · bae6be8
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diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
@@ -8,6 +8,9 @@
 into a video narrated by the [Amazon Polly](https://aws.amazon.com/polly/) text-to-speech engine.
 It can be used to generate, for instance, educational videos.
 
+Please see this [sample video](https://users.aalto.fi/tjunttil/pdf2video.mp4),
+produced with the tool, for a short introduction.
+
 # Requirements
 
 Using `pdf2video.py` requires the following external tools and services:
@@ -26,7 +29,8 @@ python3 pdf2video.py presentation.pdf script.txt video.mp4
 ```
 converts the PDF file  `presentation.pdf` and the script `script.txt` into
 the video `video.mp4` narrated by the default voice (Amazon Polly standard voice Joanna in the current version).
-The selected PDF pages as well as the narration voice can be changed easily, for instance, as follows:
+The selected PDF pages as well as the narration voice can be changed easily.
+For instance, the [sample video](https://users.aalto.fi/tjunttil/pdf2video.mp4) was produced witth the command
 ```
 python3 pdf2video.py sample.pdf sample.txt --pages "1,2,4-6" --voice Matthew --neural --conversational sample.mp4
 ```

diff --git a/parser.py b/parser.py
@@ -225,15 +225,15 @@ def parse(string, neural):
     sub = "".join([node.to_sub() for node in ast])
     return (ssml, words, sub)
 
-if __name__ == '__main__':
-    ast = parse("#sub#*@NP@-complete problem*#NPC problem#, Fourier-Motzkin")
-    print(ast)
-    print(">"+"".join([node.to_ssml(True) for node in ast])+"<")
-    words = []
-    for node in ast:
-        words += node.to_words()
-    print(words)
-
-    sub = "".join([node.to_sub() for node in ast])
-    print(sub)
-    #print(ast.to_sub())
+#if __name__ == '__main__':
+#    ast = parse("#sub#*@NP@-complete problem*#NPC problem#, Fourier-Motzkin")
+#    print(ast)
+#    print(">"+"".join([node.to_ssml(True) for node in ast])+"<")
+#    words = []
+#    for node in ast:
+#        words += node.to_words()
+#    print(words)
+#
+#    sub = "".join([node.to_sub() for node in ast])
+#    print(sub)
+#    #print(ast.to_sub())
diff --git a/pdf2video.py b/pdf2video.py
@@ -194,7 +194,7 @@ def execute(cmd):
         except Exception as err:
             error(f'Error when executing "{cmd}".\n'+str(err))
         if r.returncode != 0:
-            print(" ".join(r.args))
+            #print(" ".join(r.args))
             error(f'Error when executing "{cmd}". The last 10 lines of the stderr output is as follows:\n' + '\n'.join((r.stderr.decode('utf-8').split('\n'))[-11:]))
         return r
     def make_dir(dir_name):