DocBook Slides
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honyk
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DocBook Slides
Hello,
it would be nice to ship also DocBook Slides DTD as one of Oxygen frameworks together with a decent CSS style for visual editing. I know this schema is not standardized, it is just try. Btw, XSLT styles are already shipped
Regards,
Jan
it would be nice to ship also DocBook Slides DTD as one of Oxygen frameworks together with a decent CSS style for visual editing. I know this schema is not standardized, it is just try. Btw, XSLT styles are already shipped
Regards,
Jan
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george
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Re: DocBook Slides
Dear Jan,
I tried to use the DocBook slides for my XML Prague presentation this year but I gave up. I posted two bugs on the schemas on the DocBook issue tracker together with patches but I did not receive any notification that the patches were committed.
The DocBook stylesheets contain some code to process slides but that does not work correctly, I remember that I had to modify the stylesheets to be able to process a document correctly.
To conclude I think that slides need a little more work before we can ship them as a framework in oXygen. Also, for a presentation the author wants to focus also on how the information is presented and in general it is a one time task so DocBook is not necessarily the best candidate for that.
Best Regards,
George
I tried to use the DocBook slides for my XML Prague presentation this year but I gave up. I posted two bugs on the schemas on the DocBook issue tracker together with patches but I did not receive any notification that the patches were committed.
The DocBook stylesheets contain some code to process slides but that does not work correctly, I remember that I had to modify the stylesheets to be able to process a document correctly.
To conclude I think that slides need a little more work before we can ship them as a framework in oXygen. Also, for a presentation the author wants to focus also on how the information is presented and in general it is a one time task so DocBook is not necessarily the best candidate for that.
Best Regards,
George
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