Some years ago, I prepared a long post for Lifein19x19, but the server died and all the content was lost when I clicked Submit. That led to work-flow changes. I now copy the text from the browser to a text editor (Vim on Linux) before clicking Submit, so there is still a copy if the server dies. Then I started using Vim to correct things that my SGF editor (Quarry) cannot do. That includes changing the coordinates of a move resulting from a mis-click without re-entering all the following moves; removing the line breaks in long comments which look ragged in Eidogo; and completely removing misplaced labels.

The original post in this thread has a complex structure of plain text, followed by a text diagram followed by an SGF section for the first game, followed by the same components for the second game. I combined separate files in Vim, each of which had multiple versions as corrections were made and saved, and at some point, the an old version crept back in.

The first lesson is that each post should deal with only one game.

The second lesson is that I need to automate the generation of text diagrams. I already have experience of using sgfutils to convert an sgf file into a form that sgf2dg can process into an ASCII diagram, as part of a work-flow to generate a pdf file from game records. I need to write another script to handle the reformatting, to replace numbered moves with black or white stones (up to a certain limit), to recognise and remove captured stones and to handle handicap stones without getting confused about their colour.