Ross Gardler wrote: > Johannes Schaefer wrote: >> Hi! >> >> We have the s5 plugin to produce slides and I have a lot of local >> changes sitting on my HD. Ross mentioned that there is sth from w3c. >> >> Is it this? http://www.w3.org/Talks/Tools/ >> Has anyone investigated further? Licenses for the mentioned tools? >> Has anybody already started an output plug-in? Wish list? > > The tool in question is Slidy.
Thought it would be. > It has better features than the s5 slides > and is I believe) licence compatible. Can someone confirm this? > Ferdinand has done some work on this, but he has yet to commit that > work. There was quite a bit of discussion about his approach which was > to bypass the core of Forrest and was objected to by a couple of devs. > > I've been holding off finding a home for the s5 plugin because Ferdinand > wanted to implement the slidy thing. He committed (and later deleted) > some stuff in revision 344062 - for an input schema [1] and and a slidy > output schema [2]. I'll try to see that. Ferdinand, can you comment?! > Although this was deleted I think that was a rash move. > > There are some great ideas in there, it's just the concept of bypassing > Forrest core that we objected to [3]. Unfortunately this issue was never > resolved, and the result was a removal of the plugins in the face of > objections. I would not like to bypass Forrest, but rather use slidy as another way of output. So, preparing a presentation would be like writing a document but putting in some special classes. This gives a nice handout. > I'm sure a suitable approach can be found, e.g. do the same as we do in > every other input/output combination and go via core. However, Ferdinand > felt this was not the case, although he failed to explain, in a way that > others could understand, why this was so. Perhaps someone else working > on it will help. > >> Background: I'll prepare a tutorial about XML and would like to do >> it in Forrest (my experiences were good: http://tinyurl.com/8s9pn) > > As you know the problem with the s5 plugin is the GPL code it uses. I'd > be happy to put the s5 plugin in the Burrokeet project on Sourceforge > and give you commit access there, just let me know (don't forget to tell > me your SF username). > > If you have the time/inclination I'd prefer to see Ferdinands work > revived and we use the slidy code - license compatible and more functional. I would prefer something stable that comes as a forrest option without any catch (such as the GPL). I'd hope that some of my work carries over. > Just let me know which you want to do. Let's see what Ferdinand says. Johannes > > Ross > > [1] > http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/forrest/trunk/whiteboard/plugins/org.apache.forrest.plugin.input.smartSlides/?rev=344062 > > > [2] > http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/forrest/trunk/whiteboard/plugins/org.apache.forrest.plugin.output.smartSlides/?rev=344062 > > > [3] > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=forrest-dev&m=113178675502313&w=2 > -- User Interface Design GmbH * Teinacher Str. 38 * D-71634 Ludwigsburg Fon +49 (0)7141 377 000 * Fax +49 (0)7141 377 00-99 Geschäftsstelle: User Interface Design GmbH * Lehrer-Götz-Weg 11 * D-81825 München www.uidesign.de Buch "User Interface Tuning" von Joachim Machate & Michael Burmester www.user-interface-tuning.de
