Re: educational dtd? (and presentations)

["Bruce D'Arcus" <darcusb@muohio.edu>]

On Sunday, September 29, 2002, at 06:20 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:
>> 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

Just curious, but what do you mean by this (the "fuzzy" comment)?

> 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

Great; I'll look for it.

--
Bruce