Album Creation Infrastructure

First the thumbnail images must be created. I use 'convert' to do that. The following one line shell script is used to do this. It iterates over all files in the directory and generates thumbnails for them.

#!/bin/sh
mkdir -p thumbs
for img in *.jpg ; do convert -resize 240x180 $img thumbs/$img ; done

;; emacs-wiki is needed
(require 'emacs-wiki)

;; Handle <thumb> tags properly...
(defun sd-emacs-wiki-thumbnail-tag (beg end attrs highlight-p)
  (if highlight-p
      (goto-char end)
    (let ((end-marker (set-marker (make-marker) (1+ end))))
      (save-restriction
        (narrow-to-region beg end)
        (let ((image-list (split-string (buffer-substring beg end) nil t)))
          (delete-region beg end)
          (goto-char (point-min))
          (insert "<p>\n")
          (loop for image in image-list
                do (let ((dir (or (file-name-directory image) ""))
                         (file (file-name-nondirectory image)))
                     (insert (format " <a href=\"%s\">" image))
                     (insert (format " <img src=\"%sthumbs/%s\"></a>\n"
                                     dir file))))
          (insert "</p>\n")
          (add-text-properties (point-min) (point-max)
                               '(rear-nonsticky (read-only) read-only t))))
      (goto-char end-marker))))

;; Generate links to go to previous and next pages...
(defun sd-emacs-wiki-nav-tag (beg end attrs highlight-p)
  (if highlight-p
      (goto-char end)
    (let ((end-marker (set-marker (make-marker) (1+ end))))
      (save-restriction
        (narrow-to-region beg end)
        (let ((links (split-string (buffer-substring beg end) nil t)))
          (setq links (loop for x in links
                            collect (if (equal x "Dummy") nil x)))
          (delete-region beg end)
          (insert "<hr class=\"nav\">\n")
          (when (car links)
            (insert
             "<div style=\"float: left;\">Prev: "
             (format "<a href=\"%s.html\">%s</a></div>\n"
                     (car links) (car links))))
          (when (cadr links)
            (insert
             "<div style=\"float: right;\">Next: "
             (format "<a href=\"%s.html\">%s</a></div>\n"
                     (cadr links) (cadr links))))
          (insert "<br>"))
        (add-text-properties (point-min) (point-max)
                             '(rear-nonsticky (read-only) read-only t)))
      (goto-char end-marker))))

;; Tell emacs-wiki about the new tags...
(push '("thumb" t t t sd-emacs-wiki-thumbnail-tag) emacs-wiki-markup-tags)
(push '("nav" t t t sd-emacs-wiki-nav-tag) emacs-wiki-markup-tags)

Write some snide comments about the people in the picture. Then just list the
image file names that need to be displayed:

<thumb>
  pic1.jpg   pic2.jpg  pic3.jpg
</thumb>