enhancements for the s5 plugin

• Key: FOR-567
• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Minor
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Johannes Schaefer
• Component/s: Plugins (general issues)

Description

In preparation of my talk on 2005-07-19 (in German) I enhanced the s5 plugin. This issue is to share and discuss the changes. See attachment(s).

Comments

[Johannes Schaefer]

This is the stylesheet for the s5 transformation. There is no documentation (yet), so you'll have to dig into the source.

[Johannes Schaefer]

This is the ui-folder from the s5 code (so, I cannot contribute it, see http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/).
I heavily modified pretty.css. The files slide0.png and header.png are placeholders.

[Johannes Schaefer]

What I uploaded so far is my current state of affairs.
To experiement with it:
1. add the s5 plugin in forrest.properties in your project
2. copy the xsl file below FORREST_HOME/build/plugins/...
3. create a subdirectory for the slides content (e.g. ApCon)
4. create a subdir there named "s5slides" and copy the "ui" folder there
5. create a XML file (document-v20) with your content, e.g. presentation.xml
    mark some sections with class="slide" to see some effect
6. point your browser to
    localhost:8888/ApCon/s5slides/presentation.xml

for further info see the s5 plugin documentation:
http://people.apache.org/~rgardler/testingGround/forrestPlugins/s5/

[Ross Gardler]

Can you provide an outline of what your document2s5.xsl does that the existing one does not (after you finished preparing your presentation if time is an issue).

[Johannes Schaefer]

What's changed (roughly)
* Section handling
  - <section class="topic"> encloses a topic that spans various slides
  - <section class="slide"> will end up as a slide
  - the first level of sections inside a slide will be rendered, too
  - a topic without another slide inside gives a simple slide
* Overviews
  - each topic produces an overview ("Inhaltsübersicht")
  - at the beginning a general overview is inserted that lists all topics
* Meta data
  - author, date etc. are taken from <header>
* Changes to footer, header (running_title, running_footer)
  - somewhat inconsequent: I wanted to switch from layout-tags
    like "footer", "header" to something meaningful, e.g. "running_title"
    that can be placed anywhere.

Don't recall any more now. These should be the main points.
Ah, removed completely the insertion of sections that are not
marked with class="slide"/"topic", so I can put in stuff, that only
shows up in the "regular" Forrest output (HTML, PDF).