The following module was proposed for inclusion in the Module List:
modid: PerlPoint::Package
DSLIP: MmpOa
description: Presentation slide / doc generator framework
userid: JSTENZEL (Jochen Stenzel)
chapterid: 11 (String_Lang_Text_Proc)
communities:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (see
http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/),
http://sourceforge.net/projects/perlpoint/
similar:
PPresenter, Tk::SlideShow, SlideShow, XML::Handler::AxPoint, sdf
rationale:
PerlPoint is available on CPAN for years now, I just realized that
it is not registered yet. It is also made a sourceforge project.
Namespace choice ----------------
PerlPoint and its name were originally designed by Tom
Christiansen. When we decided to publish our new implementation and
got his permission to use the name, there was no "Presentation" root
namespace, so we decided just to use the tools/language name for it.
(Similar to PPresenter and SlideShow.) Even if there would have been
such a category, PerlPoint would not perfectly fit in as it is not
only designed to generate presentation slides but can be used for
various purposes.
PerlPoint was presented to the German Perl Workshop 2001 and YAPC
2001 and became the Workshop's officially recommended slide
generator software. In 2001, PerlPoint won a Workshop award for best
utility. In 2002, the PerlPoint application PerlPointCD was used to
produce the Workshop CD.
As the name and tool are well established now, I ask to register
the root namespace PerlPoint.
PerlPoint intro ---------------
PerlPoint allows to generate presentation slides, documentations,
handouts, training materials etc. in various formats from one or
more text files in an easy to learn, easy to extend, paragraph
oriented language. It supports unlimited document nesting and makes
it easy to maintain a document a distributed way, which means to
compose it from partial documents (which may be used standalone as
well). By embedding Perl code it is possible to "write" slides/docs
automatically while the source is processed. More common, it is
possible to write PerlPoint "applications".
For further informations and details online see the YAPC 2001
proceedings(http://www.yapc.org/Europe/2001/proceedings/15/doc/,
various *-slides/frame_set.html pages there, article at
PP-Article/frame_set.html).
Relation to other modules (as listed above)
-------------------------------------------
In short: PerlPoint is partially similar in purpose, but supports
various output formats. Therefore it might be used as a common
frontend of ones preferred presenter as well as a document
processor.
In more detail: PerlPoint was designed to support *various*
presentation formats. This means that there is no "PerlPoint
presentation format" (although HTML is the traditional and currently
most supported slide format).
So like the tools/modules listed above, PerlPoint can be used to
generate slides.
Different to them (as I know), it is not fixed to a certain output
format, backends can be written for various formats, including the
input formats of the listed tools. (A PPresenter backend already
exists.) So it well cooperates with other tools.
While some of the tools prefer XML or Perl as their input format,
which are powerful but need special knowledge, PerlPoint tries to
provide an interface language that is very easy to start with, very
close to writing a simple text like this.
PerlPoint::Package ------------------
Do I need to register every module of the PerlPoint toolset?
Currently there are two distributions with various modules: the
PerlPoint::Package module which provides the frontend parser, a
framework to write backends and a reference backend to SDF, and
PerlPoint::Converters by Lorenz Domke (LDOMKE) with converters to
HTML and LaTeX.
If it is possible, please register the PerlPoint::Converters
package as well (Lorenz is not informed of this request but I'm sure
he will agree ;-).
Please let me know if I need to register not only the packages but
also every single module within.
Greetings and thanks in advance
Jochen Stenzel
enteredby: JSTENZEL (Jochen Stenzel)
enteredon: Sat Aug 31 07:54:49 2002 GMT
The resulting entry would be:
PerlPoint::
::Package MmpOa Presentation slide / doc generator framework JSTENZEL
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