On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Aditya Mahajan <adit...@umich.edu> wrote: > On Wed, 28 Oct 2009, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: > >> Bruce, >> >> very briefly: I'm very very short on time this week, so won't be able to >> look into this until middle of next week, but I just wanted to let you know >> that I find your idea great. I had been thinking of adding an xml template >> for simple presentations. your html-based stuff looks gorgeous, so I would >> like to know more about it. And let us know what exactly it is that you're >> missing in simple-slides. In theory, titles are typeset in layers, so >> everything should be there. > > I also like this idea. In fact, it will not be too difficult to map these to > simple-slides. Basically > > <li class="slide title"> > <h1>Test Slide Show</h1> > </li> > > should be translated to > > \setupTitle[title="Test Slide Show",author=,date=] > \placeTitle
Well, except that I want the option to have this sort of rendering elsewhere in the presentation. I see you address that in a followup; would love to see you add that macro. BTW, I'm an academic as well, so using this for both teaching and research presentations (my immediate concern here; have a talk coming up in a few weeks I'd like to try this on). > and > <li class="slide"> > <h1>Hello</h1> > <ul> > <li>one</li> > <li>two</li> > </ul> > </li> > > should be translated to > > \SlideTitle{Hello} > \startitemize > \item one > \item two > \stopitemize > > we currently do not have any specific environment for blockquote (but Thomas > and I have discussed adding something similar). The vanilla ConTeXt > equivalent \startblockquote ... \stopblockquote doesn't do anything fancy. > > Finally, > <li class="slide imgbig"> > <h1>Container Ships</h1> > <img src="filename.jpg" /> > </li> > > should be translated to > > \IncludePicture[horizontal][filename.jpg]{Container Ships} > > > I do not know what is the best way to do these translations. ConTeXt can > also handle XML files, so it is just a matter of writing the translation > rules in ConTeXt. Or, if you prefer, you can write an XSLT transformation. Yeah, using XSLT is pretty straightforward for this. Bruce ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________