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Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: FYI - Slides online for a talk I gave on DocBook XML
>I then copied the index.html file from the 'html' directory (the non-frames >version) to my top directory and edited the HTML by hand to have the links >that you see on my title page to the frames and non-frames version, as well as >the link to the XML file. To generate the PDF file, I just generated FO using >the fo-plain.xsl file found with the other stylesheets, then ran that through >Fop to get something I really wasn't pleased with, but didn't really care >about. :-) > >Oh, yeah, I had to copy the images directory from where I installed the slides >so that I would have the arrows and other graphics. And I copied "slides.css" >into my 'html' and 'frames' directories and hacked it up to have the color >and font combinations that I wanted. I also mucked with a couple of the >parameters in the frames.xsl and slides.xsl stylesheets, but I forget exactly >what. Can you tell me specifically where you copied the graphics files to? I've tried every place I can think of, they still won't show up in my html. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. >Anyway, that's the general idea. Not exactly as easy as doing something in >PowerPoint and doing "Save As HTML", but a) I'm a DocBook geek and with my >vim macros, whipping up a DocBook file is easy; b) given that the talk was on >DocBook, I felt I should show what DocBook could do; c) I didn't feel like >learning MagicPoint and didn't want to use PowerPoint; d) the resulting >HTML files are decent HTML (unlike pretty much anything that comes out of an >MS application); and e) what the heck, it was fun to do. You couldn't have posted this note at a better time. I'm trying to find a way for a co-worker to convert a presentation for a course he teaches into a platform-indepent format, and this looks like a great solution. I really appreciate your help. Thanks, Kristin ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Kristin Thomas Linux Information Development Linux Technology Center Ph. (512) 838-4546 T/L 678-4546 Bldg. 908 1D002
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