We use XXE Pro for producing book-length documents. I recently got fed up with PowerPoint for slide presentations, and started looking at alternatives. Ideally the alternative would be s.t. that I'm already familiar with, like XXE :-).
Unfortunately, although there are indications that some people have used (a version of?) DocBook to do slides, I can't find any *current* references to this. Nor does XXE seem to come bundled with a slide template. There is an add-in for slides, but it's based on the DocBook DTD v.3.4, which is nearly (if not quite) an antique. Anyway, I tried this add-in. I succeeded in producing an HTML output version of a couple sample slides (the PDF process failed, but I think that's my problem). But it isn't clear to me how I would insert pictures and so forth, or even how I get sub-bullets. While I could play around some more and figure out some of this, it would be nice to have a tutorial or guide of some sort. There is a link (http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/slides/current/doc/) from the description to a page for "more information", but the linked-to page appears to be about something else entirely (namely, PHP). It would also be nice to know if there is a more recent version of the slide schema, and if not, why that was abandoned. (Of course this last is not an XXE question, but maybe someone on this mailing list knows...) Mike Maxwell CASL/ U MD
