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Re: FYI - Slides online for a talk I gave on DocBook XML
- From: Kristin E Thomas <kristint at us dot ibm dot com>
- To: Dan York <dyork at e-smith dot com>
- Cc: docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 17:16:22 -0600
- Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: FYI - Slides online for a talk I gave on DocBook XML
>I then copied the index.html file from the 'html' directory (the
non-frames
>version) to my top directory and edited the HTML by hand to have the links
>that you see on my title page to the frames and non-frames version, as
well as
>the link to the XML file. To generate the PDF file, I just generated FO
using
>the fo-plain.xsl file found with the other stylesheets, then ran that
through
>Fop to get something I really wasn't pleased with, but didn't really care
>about. :-)
>
>Oh, yeah, I had to copy the images directory from where I installed the
slides
>so that I would have the arrows and other graphics. And I copied
"slides.css"
>into my 'html' and 'frames' directories and hacked it up to have the color
>and font combinations that I wanted. I also mucked with a couple of the
>parameters in the frames.xsl and slides.xsl stylesheets, but I forget
exactly
>what.
Can you tell me specifically where you copied the graphics files to? I've
tried every place I can think of, they still won't show up in my html. I'm
not sure what I'm doing wrong.
>Anyway, that's the general idea. Not exactly as easy as doing something
in
>PowerPoint and doing "Save As HTML", but a) I'm a DocBook geek and with my
>vim macros, whipping up a DocBook file is easy; b) given that the talk was
on
>DocBook, I felt I should show what DocBook could do; c) I didn't feel like
>learning MagicPoint and didn't want to use PowerPoint; d) the resulting
>HTML files are decent HTML (unlike pretty much anything that comes out of
an
>MS application); and e) what the heck, it was fun to do.
You couldn't have posted this note at a better time. I'm trying to find a
way for a co-worker to convert a presentation for a course he teaches into
a platform-indepent format, and this looks like a great solution. I really
appreciate your help.
Thanks,
Kristin
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