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Re: Topic type(s) for Slides: Thoughts or Requirements?

Fri, 2013-06-07 12:50
I'm finding that the default HTML5 theme makes a pretty good preview for the slides since the presentation is within a window that is roughly slide like

Re: Topic type(s) for Slides: Thoughts or Requirements?

Fri, 2013-06-07 11:59
Yves, That would be interesting. I hadn't considered using for the slide content. Cheers, E.

Re: Topic type(s) for Slides: Thoughts or Requirements?

Fri, 2013-06-07 07:23
I do the following: - Topic title = slide title. - Abstract contains the information which needs to go on the "slides", because I see [abstract] as a brief

Re: Creating CHM with outputclass

Fri, 2013-06-07 05:37
Hi, The subject of the thread seems to be " Creating CHM ....". This means Windows HTML Help which is based on the HTML stylesheets and can be customized via

Re: Creating CHM with outputclass

Fri, 2013-06-07 03:15
Following up on Julio's comment, depending on what you are trying to do, ditaval flagging might or might not be a good solution. If you only want the ph to be

main index entries have all page numbers of their subentries...take

Fri, 2013-06-07 03:03
I've posted this question twice before, with no helpful responses. Here is an update and a related question. When using the OT (any version after 1.5.4) with

Re: Topic type(s) for Slides: Thoughts or Requirements?

Fri, 2013-06-07 01:44
There is probably a set of metadata specializations or conventions for to capture slide-specific presentation details like the slide master and

Re: Removing a base DITA element through a constraint?

Thu, 2013-06-06 21:35
We are in the process of implementing a RelaxNG-to-DITA-DTD transform and it's pretty close. The project is here: http://code.google.com/p/dita-ng/ and people

Re: Topic type(s) for Slides: Thoughts or Requirements?

Thu, 2013-06-06 21:30
It strikes me that for usability you need to constrain the content based on the slide template/format rather than select that as an afterthought with an

Re: Topic type(s) for Slides: Thoughts or Requirements?

Thu, 2013-06-06 21:17
I've done something like this that allows me to produce PDF that resembles powerpoint, including a background image, title page, and uses table structure to

Re: Topic type(s) for Slides: Thoughts or Requirements?

Thu, 2013-06-06 21:11
If we limit ourselves to content authored with the intent of slide presentation, then it's a little simpler, just because we usually know about how much

Re: Topic type(s) for Slides: Thoughts or Requirements?

Thu, 2013-06-06 21:10
Nothing has immediately jumped out at me as missing or otherwise being inadequate. Your structure captures what I would want to capture. And lcInstruction

Re: Topic type(s) for Slides: Thoughts or Requirements?

Thu, 2013-06-06 21:10
Hi Eliot, I had few comments with no idea if what I write is correct or not. I imagine that the elements would allow the reuse of content using conref as

Re: Topic type(s) for Slides: Thoughts or Requirements?

Thu, 2013-06-06 21:01
... There is such a wide range of taste for Powerpoint slides. There are some common templates for layouts (title only, title and single text block, title and

Re: Topic type(s) for Slides: Thoughts or Requirements?

Thu, 2013-06-06 20:54
OK, I've defined a specialization of the learningContent topic type that looks like this:

    xslt not called from new plugin

    Thu, 2013-06-06 20:40
    Hi I have started a plugin to add to my DITA installation. - Using: - oXygen 13.2 - DITA-OT 1.5.4 The plugin goes into pre-processing, using extension point

    Re: Topic type(s) for Slides: Thoughts or Requirements?

    Thu, 2013-06-06 20:01
    Should be "learningContent", not "learningObject" topicref for slides. The learningContent topic type is the obvious base for any slide-like thing. Cheers, E.

    Re: Removing a base DITA element through a constraint?

    Thu, 2013-06-06 20:00
    The feature proposal would need to come to the TC from a TC member and would need somebody to champion the proposal through the process. We are coming close to

    Re: Removing a base DITA element through a constraint?

    Thu, 2013-06-06 19:54
    ... Totally agree. Do I need to do anything to formally request that? The RNG->DTD transform sounds interesting. I'm planning to check that out sometime.

    Topic type(s) for Slides: Thoughts or Requirements?

    Thu, 2013-06-06 19:45
    I'm getting requirements from several quarters for DITA-based training content that is primarily intended for presentation as slides. I am also working on
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