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 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. Aditya