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<tt>~/images</tt>. Your images can be ordered into
sub-directories. Then, create an empty directory, where the album
will be created, say <tt>~/album</tt> :</p><pre class="programlisting">
mkdir ~/album
</pre><p>and run bins with the two directories (source and destination)
as parameters :</p><pre class="programlisting">
bins ~/images ~/album
</pre><p>This will create an HTML album, with sub-albums, thumbnails
and scaled images.</p><p>To change the appearance of the HTML album, a style can be
chosen with the <tt>-s</tt> command line option or via the
<tt>templateStyle</tt> parameter in the configuration or
description files (see <a href="usage_custom.html">Customization</a> below for information
about these files). In this case, BINS will use the HTML templates
found is the subdirectory named
<tt>templates.</tt><b><tt>style</tt></b> (where
<b><tt>style</tt></b> is the style name).</p><p>BINS looks for this subdirectory in the directory specified by
the <tt>-t</tt> command line option, then in
<tt>~/.bins</tt> and finally in
<tt>/etc/bins</tt>.</p><p>For the moment, there is two styles (named
<tt>default</tt> and <tt>joi</tt>). If someone
has the artistic talent to create HTML templates for a new style,
<a href="mailto:jerome@sautret.org.ANTISPAM" target="_top">I am
interested</a>...</p><p><b>bins</b> has some other command line options,
type</p><pre class="programlisting">
bins -h
</pre><p>to see them and see the <b><a href="bins_man.html" target="_top">bins(1)</a></b> man page.</p><br></td></tr></table><div class="navfoot"><hr><table width="100%" border="0" summary="Footer navigation"><tr><td width="33%" align="left"><span class="footdate">$Date: 2002/09/08 13:08:52 $</span></td><td width="34%" align="center"><span class="foothome"><a href="index.html">Home</a></span></td><td width="33%" align="right"> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" align="right"><span class="footcopy"><span class="copyright">Copyright © 2001, 2002 Jérôme SAUTRET. </span></span></td></tr></table></div></div></body></html>
