LA Scots Website Tools

• Documents: HTML documents are created using vi. The home, news, calendar, roster, map and some other pages are written in PHP4, pulling data from a MySQL database. Tools have been created to allow others to update the content on these pages.
  
  
• Graphics: All photographic images are scanned on a Hewlett Packard ScanJet 4C flatbed scanner, and manipulated in a combination of PaintShop Pro, XV, and the GIMP. The 3-D logo used at the top of every page, and the larger version which is offered for download as wallpaper were all produced with POV-Ray. Five-plus years ago. Haven't done much since.
  
  
• Music: The music downloadable from this site is currently prepared in the following manner (steps 2-4, and even part of 5 are done by one "makejpg" script):
  1. Plain text file is typed up in a shorthand version of the Bagpipe Music Writer (BMW) format
  2. The shorthand is expanded into standard BMW format using a Bourne shell script (mbmw)
  3. A PostScript file is produced from the BMW file, using a Perl version (bmwps.pl) of Robert MacNeil's Bagpipe Music Writer PRO and BMW PostScript definitions. I do own a legal copy of BMW PRO, but I had to rewrite it because I don't use MS-DOS. If you are interested in further details on these scripts, please contact me. I could possibly give you the scripts I have written, but you will need to purchase BMW PRO to get the PostScript definitions you need for bmwps.pl to work. I will not give you Robert's software, so please don't ask.
  4. Ghostscript is used to convert the PostScript to JPEG format
  5. The JPEG file is quickly cropped and converted to GIF format using XV, or can be opened in the GIMP for adding text, etc.

Please send comments, suggestions or questions about this web site to Wil Heitritter. ( http://www.heitritter.com/ ).