Re: presentation (simple-slides?) master-like feature?

[Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>]

On Wed, 28 Oct 2009, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:

> Bruce,
>
> very briefly: I'm very very short on time this week, so won't be able to look 
> into this until middle of next week, but I just wanted to let you know that I 
> find your idea great. I had been thinking of adding an xml template for 
> simple presentations. your html-based stuff looks gorgeous, so I would like 
> to know more about it. And let us know what exactly it is that you're missing 
> in simple-slides. In theory, titles are typeset in layers, so everything 
> should be there.

I also like this idea. In fact, it will not be too difficult to map these 
to simple-slides. Basically

       <li class="slide title">
 	<h1>Test Slide Show</h1>
       </li>

should be translated to

      \setupTitle[title="Test Slide Show",author=,date=]
      \placeTitle

and
      <li class="slide">
 	<h1>Hello</h1>
 	<ul>
 	  <li>one</li>
 	  <li>two</li>
 	</ul>
       </li>

should be translated to

     \SlideTitle{Hello}
     \startitemize
 	\item one
 	\item two
     \stopitemize

we currently do not have any specific environment for blockquote (but 
Thomas and I have discussed adding something similar). The vanilla ConTeXt 
equivalent \startblockquote ... \stopblockquote doesn't do anything fancy.

Finally,
  	<li class="slide imgbig">
 	   <h1>Container Ships</h1>
            <img src="filename.jpg" />
         </li>

should be translated to

     \IncludePicture[horizontal][filename.jpg]{Container Ships}


I do not know what is the best way to do these translations. ConTeXt can 
also handle XML files, so it is just a matter of writing the translation 
rules in ConTeXt. Or, if you prefer, you can write an XSLT transformation.

Aditya
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