Re: [docbook-apps] slides: how to balance presentation and content

["W. Martin Borgert" <debacle@debian.org>]

On 2009-01-13 13:28, Stefan Seefeld wrote:
> So I wonder: what experience do others have with docbook-slides?

I do my slides in DocBook, if possible. Sometimes PPT format is
required, so I use OpenOffice Impress, which is painful.

> For the record, I have been using S5  
> (http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/) and worked with a custom stylesheet  
> to target that from docbook-slides. That took some hacks, as S5 allows  
> some neat tricks (incremental lists, overlayed images, etc.) that  
> require some additional markup not provided by docbook. In fact, I  
> mostly (ab-)used the 'role' attribute, though I believe there have to be  
> better and more expressive ways to indicate the expected presentational  
> info.

Did you use my docbookslides2s5.xsl, I posted on 2007-01-05 on
the docbook-apps mailing list? It should be in the archives.
I used role=incremental in lists, but don't think, I had support
for overlayed images.

It would be nice to have docbook slides support in dblatex
(http://dblatex.sourceforge.net/), maybe using the "beamer"
class, but nobody seems to be working on this.