Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 12:41:08 -0700 From: Murray Stokely <murray@freebsdmall.com> To: Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net> Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OpenOffice 1.0 Output format for DocBook Slides Message-ID: <20050815194108.GH38147@freebsdmall.com> In-Reply-To: <25787A7C-9D68-4337-9E51-290AA2FD4CAD@submonkey.net> References: <20050815022521.GC14277@freebsdmall.com> <25787A7C-9D68-4337-9E51-290AA2FD4CAD@submonkey.net>
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On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 08:36:49PM +0100, Ceri Davies wrote: > > On 15 Aug 2005, at 03:25, Murray Stokely wrote: > > >I've written a stylesheet to output OpenOffice 1.0 / StarImpress > >presentations from the contents of a DocBook Slides XML file, such as > >those in /usr/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/slides. > > > >The output is much better than either the HTML or PDF outputs. An > >example presentation generated completely from the makefiles and > >xsltproc is available at http://people.FreeBSD.org/~murray/slides.sxi. > > > >This new output format is the fastest to generate, requires the fewest > >special software programs to be installed (only xsltproc and > >openoffice), and creates by far the best output. > > Hey Murray, does it require openoffice to be installed in order to > build the document? No it does not. It only uses 'zip' and 'xsltproc'. It builds OpenOffice documents faster than it can build even the HTML output. It's very fast. The HTML output is slower because the chunking can create dozens of different HTML files, while the OpenOffice output just creates one content.xml file then zips it up with the pre-existing template in share. I'd finally like to turn this on by default so we can link to these presentations from the website once I import it and get it all working. The current doc.slides.mk makefile is not OBJDIR clean and is a bit simpler and less robust than the other doc makefiles. I'll have to make sure it stands up to the full web build before turning it on. - Murray
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