educational dtd? (and presentations)

educational dtd? (and presentations)

[Bruce D'Arcus]

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?

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)?

--
Bruce

Re: educational dtd? (and presentations)

[Hans Hagen]

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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Re: educational dtd? (and presentations)

[Bruce D'Arcus]

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

Re: educational dtd? (and presentations)

[Hans Hagen]

At 11:37 PM 9/29/2002 -0400, Bruce D'Arcus wrote:

>>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)?

whenever i see a tex-pp presentation i notice spurious vertical/horizontal 
spacing which is a result of adding those special points of action

Hans
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