Better Lex bookmarklet

Better Lex bookmarklet is a tool for improving readability of the online Belgian consolidated legislation. It requires a modern Web browser, such as Firefox.

Installing

See Better Lex updater/installer (en, fr, nl) or, if you are familiar with bookmarklets, grab the latest build on github.

Screenshots

Before	After	After (dark theme)

Code overview

Here is the structure of this project.

betterlex-bookmarklet
├── bin
│   ├── bookmarklet_fr.js
│   └── bookmarklet_nl.js
├── lib
├── scripts
│   ├── build
│   └── install
├── src
│   ├── main.css
│   ├── main.js
│   ├── translations.json
│   └── utility.js
├── CREDITS
├── LICENSE
└── README.md

How to build the bookmarklet from scratch

Dependencies

• PHP 5.4 or any newer version
• Composer, a package manager for PHP
• spotch, a bookmarklet generator

Download and install dependencies

You can use the following bash script to install the project’s dependencies.

./scripts/install

Build the bookmarklet

Once the dependencies are installed, you just need to run this build script to generate both the French and Dutch versions of the bookmarklet.

./scripts/build

License

This is free/libre software, made available under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPLv3).