-- Aegisub Automation demonstration script -- Original written by Niels Martin Hansen -- Given into the public domain -- For an explanation of these, see the documentation, or demo 1 version = 3 kind = "basic_ass" name = "Reading data demonstration" description = "This is a demonstration of how to access the various data passed to an Automation script. It loops over the data structures provided, and dumps them to the debug console." configuration = {} function process_lines(meta, styles, lines, config) -- This makes an alias for the aegisub.output_debug function. Remember that functions are first-class values in Lua. -- The 'local' keyword makes the 'out' variable local to this function local out = aegisub.output_debug -- Use the string.format function to form a string showing some metadata about the subtitles and output it out(string.format("Metadata: res_x=%d res_s=%d", meta.res_x, meta.res_y)) -- The number of styles is stored in index -1, because there might be a style named "n" local numstyles = styles[-1] out("Number of styles: " .. numstyles) -- Loop over the styles with a for loop, printing some info about each style for i = 0, numstyles-1 do out(string.format("Style %d: name='%s' fontname='%s'", i, styles[i].name, styles[i].fontname)) end -- Do the same, but for the actual subtitle lines out("Number of subtitle lines: " .. lines.n) for i = 0, lines.n-1 do -- Use the report_progress function to show the progress of the loop aegisub.report_progress(i/lines.n*100) -- Check if the line is a dialogue line, otherwise it won't have much interesting data -- Also, the script will crash if you try to access a field that doesn't exist if lines[i].kind == "dialogue" then -- Again, output some info about the line out(string.format("Line %d: dialogue start=%d end=%d style=%s", i, lines[i].start_time, lines[i].end_time, lines[i].style)) out(" Text: " .. lines[i].text) out(" Stripped text: " .. lines[i].text_stripped) out(" Number of karaoke syllables: " .. lines[i].karaoke.n) -- Also loop over the karaoke syllables, if any, in the line. -- Note that there will actually always be at least one syllable, number zero, which is everything before the first \k tag for j = 0, lines[i].karaoke.n-1 do syl = lines[i].karaoke[j] -- Use the aegisub.text_extents function to calculate the rendered size of the syllable text -- Note that the styles[lines[i].style] construct can be dangerous, in case the line refers to a non-existant style extx, exty, extd, extl = aegisub.text_extents(styles[lines[i].style], syl.text_stripped) out(string.format(" Syllable %d: dur=%d kind=%s text='%s' text_stripped='%s' extx=%d exty=%d extd=%d extl=%d", j, syl.duration, syl.kind, syl.text, syl.text_stripped, extx, exty, extd, extl)) end else -- For non-dialogue lines, output a lot less info out(string.format("Line %d: %s", i, lines[i].kind)) end end -- In the end, no modifications were done, so just return the original subtitle data return lines end