maxwell wrote: > 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...) >
I'm sorry but your email does not reflect the reality: * We are definitely not going to bundle Slides, a rarely needed document type. We made XXE modular and extensible in order to be able to do precisely this: not bundle everything with the product. * We actually use the Slides add-on for our own needs and know for sure that it works fine. * The Slides DTD v3.4 is based on the DocBook DTD v4.4, which is not an antiquity. Please read http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/slides/current/RELEASE-NOTES.html and you'll see that our add-on is pretty up-to-date. * Being based on DocBook, inserting pictures and sub-bullets in a Slides document works *exactly* like when authoring a DocBook document. Notice that XXE displays a toolbar identical to the DocBook one when you create or open a Slides document. This toolbar has buttons allowing to insert pictures and add list items. See attached screenshot (showing sample.xml, a sample Slides document found in the add-on distribution). * We are not responsible for broken links in third party web sites. Please visit http://docbook.sourceforge.net/, then click on "DocBook Releases", then click on "docbook-slides-doc" to check this. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: slides_sample.png Type: image/png Size: 103960 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.xmlmind.com/pipermail/xmleditor-support/attachments/20090625/b4a1281e/attachment-0001.png
