From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/9414 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: educational dtd? (and presentations) Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 00:20:12 +0200 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.1.20020930001541.035c0ca8@remote-1> References: <8597DAD7-D3E3-11D6-852B-0030657A7050@muohio.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035399743 2963 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 19:02:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 19:02:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-To: "Bruce D'Arcus" In-Reply-To: <8597DAD7-D3E3-11D6-852B-0030657A7050@muohio.edu> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:9414 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:9414 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma@wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------