DavePawson wrote:
Stefan Seefeld wrote:
I think I'm a bit confused now as to what the question is. What I'm
asking for is a way to mark up slide ('foil') content in a way that
allows me to incrementally build up the whole slide one step at a time.
Yet the description you gave went all the way to 'using' the slide set
in a dynamic manner, that's why I wanted to understand the scope of
the changes you talked about.
I'm sorry, it seems I expressed myself poorly.
If we constrain the docbook work to markup only, I'd be happier.
Yes, definitely. I had nothing else in mind.
In which case I don't understand enough to suggest anything.
Could you define it? Simple example first?
Right now I'm using this:
<itemizedlist role="incremental"> ...</itemizedlist>
to generate incremental lists. (S5's javascript will detect DOM nodes
with class=incremental and process them appropriately.) While
something like this certainly works (although I'd rather use another,
dedicated, attribute instead of 'role'), something like keeping list
items and overlayed graphics in sync is not so easy (it's not even
supported by S5 right now, but that's just a matter of programming ;-) )
I haven't thought this through yet myself, as I think it may be good
to take the first step first...
If you can look after the 'S5' end, and just keep the discussions here
on markup, is that workable?
Sure. The only reason I mention S5 is because that's a practical example
of a target medium, so looking at its functionality is a good way to
plan what level of expressivity would be good to have in the markup.
I'll spare you all my thoughts on how S5 can be improved...:-)
Which is a mile away from semantic or even presentational markup?
It is exactly xsl-fo. Take this block, flow it into that position.
<foil template="my-two-column-template">
<block name="left">
<itemizedlist/>
</block>
<block name="right">
<mediaobject/>
</block>
<block name="footer"/>
</foil>
I.e., I add block elements that have little more semantics than
'divs' in html. Their layout can then be described by means of
'my-two-column-template' (which may trigger some chunk of CSS to be
included with precise layout info for these blocks.
Should they be in a foils namespace, being a docbook extension?
(At least for db5)
Yes, I think putting the whole set of slides extensions into their own
namespace makes sense for db5.
Where (in the schema) are you adding them?
So far I haven't started yet messing with the schema. I hoped someone
else would, meanwhile. ;-)
Thanks,
Stefan
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