On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Aditya Mahajan
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