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

[Jirka Kosek <jirka@kosek.cz>]

Justus-bulk@Piater.name wrote:

> Of course, this is a brutal departure from the XML principle of
> separation of content from presentation, but as I argued in an earlier
> posting, to me the advantages of (ab)using DocBook for presentations
> weigh far heavier than purity of principle.

Sorry for stepping-in, but to me it seems that you might try to have a
look ODF and OOXML and see how they describe presentation slides. It
seems that your requirements are so presentational and layout driven
that it simply doesn't nicely fit into DocBook principles.

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