Re: educational dtd? (and presentations)

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 03:42 PM 9/29/2002 -0400, you wrote:

>Looking around the ConTeXt website I came across mention of an 
>"educational dtd" in development.  What is this (for exams? textbooks?), 
>and when will it be available?

for the moment it's mainly examns [i will clean up the dtd's soon]; the 
other things are under construction [we are currently doing a couple of 
projects that need both of them, and the idea is that context will provide 
at least the frameworks in the distribution]; also, i'm extending figure 
bases to resource libraries + tools.

>Also, I currently use PowerPoint for teaching but might be interested in 
>moving presentations to ConTeXt.  How would I do something like the 
>progressive disclosure thing in PP in ConTeXt (don't remember what it's 
>called exactly, but when you click and the first bullet point is 
>displayed, click again and the next one is displayed, etc., etc.; it's 
>essentially a kind of transition)?

[actually, i do have a simple xml interface to presentations, will 
finish/document that some day]

there is indeed a mechanism for that, but not perfect; also, the PP way of 
doing things is too fuzzy with regards to spacing

i recently played with a new mechanism in context, called collectors; i'll 
see if i can find time to post an example since this is the best way to go

Hans
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