diff --git a/docs/gallery/make_gallery.sh b/docs/gallery/make_gallery.sh
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-#!/bin/bash
-
-# scans the current directory and for each new file not already existing in the
-# gallery.rst file, creates a new entry, the person adding the file will however
-# need to add descriptive text
-
-file=gallery.rst
-
-# function to write a gallery entry
-function gallery_entry()
-{
-    echo "" >> $2
-    echo "..  image::" $1 >> $2
-    echo "    :alt:   Dummy Text Lorem Ipsum" >> $2
-}
-
-# for each png file
-for i in *.png ; do
-    if ! grep -q $i gallery.rst ; then
-       gallery_entry $i $file
-    fi
-done
diff --git a/docs/gallery/make_html_entry.sh b/docs/gallery/make_html_entry.sh
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-#!/bin/bash
-
-# on the basis of the entries in gallery.rst file
-# produce the html snippet that allows to make the
-# gallery on the front page
-
-# this function writes the html entry for a given image, as determined
-# from the gallery.rst entry
-function html_slide_entry()
-{
-    slide_number="$1"
-    number_of_slides="$2"
-    imagename="$3"
-    alttext="$4"
-    output_html="$5"
-
-    echo '  <div class="mySlides fade">' >> $5
-    echo '    <div class="numbertext">'$1' / '$2'</div>' >> $5
-    echo '    <img src="_images/'$3'" style="width:100%">' >> $5
-    echo '    <div class="text">'$4'</div>' >> $5
-    echo '  </div>' >> $5
-    echo '' >> $5
-}
-
-# writes the forward and backward buttons
-function html_write_buttons
-{
-    outfile=$1
-    echo '  <a class="prev" onclick="plusSlides(-1)">&#10094;</a>' >> $outfile
-    echo '  <a class="next" onclick="plusSlides(1)">&#10095;</a>' >> $outfile
-}
-
-# writes the dots for the images
-function html_write_dots
-{
-    dot_type="$1"
-    num_dots="$2"
-    outfile="$3"
-    echo '<div style="text-align:center">' >> $outfile
-    for (( i = 1 ; i <= $num_dots ; i++ )) ; do
-      echo '  <span class="'$dot_type'" onclick="currentSlide('$i')"></span>' >> $outfile
-    done
-    echo '</div>' >> $outfile
-    echo '' >> $outfile
-}
-
-
-# this is the input rst file which determines, what the html will show
-gallery_file="gallery.rst"
-
-# the file we are writing out to
-out_file="test.html"
-
-# determine the number of images
-num_images=`grep -c ' image::' $gallery_file`
-
-# write the start of the html section
-echo '<!-- SLIDESHOW CONTENT -->' > $out_file
-echo '<!-- START OF SCRIPTED CONTENT -->' >> $out_file
-echo '<br>' >> $out_file
-echo '<div class="slideshow-container">' >> $out_file
-
-# loop over the number of slides
-for (( i = 1 ; i <= $num_images ; i++ )) ; do
-    alttext=`grep ":alt:" $gallery_file | sed -n "$i"p | cut -d ' ' -f6-`
-    img_file=`grep "image::" $gallery_file | sed -n "$i"p | awk '{print $3}'`
-    echo $alttext $img_file
-    html_slide_entry $i $num_images $img_file "$alttext" $out_file
-done
-
-# write the buttons
-html_write_buttons $out_file
-
-echo '</div>' >> $out_file
-echo '<br>' >> $out_file
-
-# write the dots
-html_write_dots "dot" $num_images $out_file
-
-echo '<!-- END OF SCRIPTED CONTENT -->' >> $out_file
-
-# now we insert the autogen content into the slideshow file
-# determine the line on which we insert the auto get content
-breakline=`grep -n "<\!-- WE WILL INSERT AUTO GEN CONENT HERE -->" ../slideshow_empty.html | sed -e s'/:/ /'g | awk '{print $1}'`
-breaklineplus1=$(($breakline+1))
-filelength=`wc -l ../slideshow_empty.html | awk '{print $1}'`
-
-# first print out the file upto the break point
-sed -n 1,"$breakline"p ../slideshow_empty.html > ../slideshow.html
-# dump the contents of the autogen file into the slideshow
-cat $out_file >> ../slideshow.html
-# now print out the rest of the slideshow
-sed -n "$breaklineplus1","$filelength"p ../slideshow_empty.html >> ../slideshow.html
-
-# all done :)