Re: [docbook] DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Minutes: 18 September 2013

["Bob Stayton" <bobs@sagehill.net>]

Hi Stefan,
Regarding getting more details about slides and assembly, you might want to 
correspond directly with Larry Rowland (larry.rowland@hp.com), the Committee 
member who experimented with it.

Regarding getting the new slides integrated into the build and distribution, 
I apologize for the delay.  We had to spend time getting a new build and 
snapshot machine set up, and resolving some SVN problems we were having with 
it.  Those problems seem to be resolved now, and I'm planning to do some 
more work on the build process itself.

I would not take silence on the list to mean that your offer of help is 
unwelcome.  When I get to the slides build, I will certainly ask for your 
help.

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
bobs@sagehill.net

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From: "Stefan Seefeld" <stefan@seefeld.name>
Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2013 1:51 PM
To: "Bob Stayton" <bobs@sagehill.net>
Cc: "DocBook Technical Committee" <docbook-tc@lists.oasis-open.org>
Subject: Re: [docbook] DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Minutes: 18 
September 2013

> Bob,
>
> thanks for sharing these minutes with a wider audience.
>
>
> On 09/18/2013 04:11 PM, Bob Stayton wrote:
> > 10.  slides schema/assembly
> >
> > Larry reported on his work to use DocBook assembly for
> > slides.  He found no advantages for a simple ad hoc set of
> > slides, but it could be very useful when reusing content
> > from DocBook documents in slides.  He also saw potential
> > in eLearning situations.
>
> Is it possible to get some more details about this discussion ? As one
> of the authors of the new slides schema I would appreciate to
> participate in this effort. I'm still not clear at all what the
> relationship might be between slides and assembly. At best, the two seem
> orthogonal, i.e. assembly could be a means to "assemble" slides out of
> an existing repertoire of DocBook sources. I still don't understand what
> makes slides special in that regard, or how it might affect the slides
> schema.
>
> > He had problems using the new slides stylesheets.
> > Jirka asked about support in Oxygen XML editor for slides.
> > We would need to get the new slides working in
> > DocBook XSL distributions, since that is what Oxygen uses.
>
> When I last worked on the integration of the new slides into DocBook-XSL
> trunk (when I met with David Cramer at last year's GSoC Mentor Summit) I
> ran into a few limitations due to the current build process. I was
> hoping to be able to come back to this, and possibly even work on an
> improved build system directly. However, that effort never went off the
> ground, unfortunately, as nothing appears to have changed since last year.
>
> I'm not sure whether it is for this reason, but downstream DocBook
> distributors don't seem to pick up this new work, which unfortunately
> limits its usefulness. (I'm still waiting for the new slides to find
> their way into XMLMind's editor, for example.)
>
> I would be happy to help with any of this, but, judging from the silence
> on the developer's list, it isn't clear that such contributions would
> even be welcome.
>
>    Stefan
>
> --
>
>      ...ich hab' noch einen Koffer in Berlin...