On Wed, 11 Oct 2006, BBEdit-Talk List wrote:
5) Document merge functionality
by Peter Dominic Ryan - Subscriptions Account
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I'm pretty sure you could whip something up with persistant
includes and a command line scripting language plus a touch of
applescript. This simple photo gallery <http://www.meggiemiao.com/
photos/> was generated with one or two python scripts and an
applescript. I simply put all the photos into their appropriate
subdirectories and then run the applescript, which renames files (I
think), generates thumbnails, and then builds the web pages.
Most of the heavy lifting is done with Python (insert Perl or just
about any other langauge you want) while the Applescript just works
at the top level. Depending on where your data is stored, I could
conceive of a Python routine that either greps the data, queries a
database, or just reads a line number for the appropriate data in
which to generate the page.
If there is interest I could dig up the scripts and post them.
Many thanks for your response Tim.
Unfortunately I have not had a lot of experience with scripting and
programming, and I guess I feel a little lost when I try to look at
creating things like this. It can be terribly frustrating to try and
debug something when you don’t have a lot of background knowledge! ;-)
That said, I have been experimenting with the 4W Webmerge product,
and it is brilliant. Am definitely going to purchase a copy ... as I
can think of dozens of applications for it within my workflow.
Thanks again for your kind advice.
Regards,
Peter
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