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[Jaap Karssenberg <jaap.karssenberg@xxxxxxxxx>]

I had intended to have the dokuwiki at http://zim-wiki.org/wiki as the
collection point for all user content, however login seems to be broken at
the moment, so need to see if I can bring it up again in the next few
days...

Regards,

Jaap



On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 1:19 PM, Orri! <orr1_hallberg@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Since using Zim I need the same site structures over and over so I used
> templates. What bothered me was that they are not dynamic. You can't
> say: make a gallery with pictures of this folder, name the site foo,
> make a subsite named bar, ...
>
> So I wrote a script which includes a template, makes folders/subfolders
> and asks for the name of the new page.
>
> My questions are:
> 1) can/should user made scripts be collected?
> (I think it's worth it)
> 2) What scripts like this make your life easier?
>
>
> Here is mine, I put it in use as a button on the toolbar and start it
> with xterm scriptname.
>
> #!/bin/bash
> #:
> #:
>
> #: Input will be one or two words in small letters
> echo "Name:"
> read name
>
> #: providing different versions of the name
> namedata=${name// /_}
> nameplus=${name// /+}
> namebig=${name~}
> nameuscore=${namebig// /_}
> nameurl=${namebig//_/%20}
>
> echo "namebig" $namebig
>
> echo "Getting Data."
> echo "Please stand by ..."
>
> #: getting some data with a scraper
> # ... formatting the data, calculating some stuff
>
> #: Putting it together -> this is the part where the template is filled
> with our data
> echo "
> ====== ${name~} ======
> #: Some data we have found in places
> ===== Images =====
> [[+Gallery]]
> ===== Links =====
> #: Some links we build from the data and the name (like search engine
> URLs filled with ${name~} and stuff)
> ===== Tags =====
> [[02 Tags|Tags:]] @$namedata" >
> "/home/orri/Notebooks/catalog/Models/$nameuscore.txt"
>
> #: Making the needed directories
> mkdir /home/orri/Notebooks/catalog/Models/$nameuscore
> mkdir /home/orri/Notebooks/catalog/Models/$nameuscore/CAD/
> mkdir /home/orri/Notebooks/catalog/Models/$nameuscore/Gallery/
>
> #: putting the page in the index
> echo '[[+'$namebig']]' >> '/home/alice/Notebooks/catalog/Models.txt'
>
> exit 0
>
>
> Further ideas
> * Sort the index automagically after inserting a new model
> * adding pics from a folder to the gallery subfolder and gallery page in
> a fixed max-size
> * script makes more tags by itself
> * write a build-a-gallery-in-zim script
>
>
> Cheers!
>
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