[OS X TeX] Re: Is there a Latex package for creating html slidy presentations?

[Johannes Brauer]

Am 11.10.2006 um 21:26 schrieb Eitan Gurari:

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>
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>>> files. A few days ago I saw a Slidy presentation (
>>
>> http://www.w3.org/Talks/Tools/Slidy/
>>
>> ) the first time and found it fairly nice.
>>> Compiling my latex sources to Slidy had the advantage that the
>
>> Yes, this looks nice. There is a suite tex4ht (notably htlatex) which
>> can transform .tex to .html and some other formats. However
>>
>> 1) It definitely has issues with beamer. May be some less
>> sophisticated packages are treatedmore nicely but I would not bet on
>> it
>>
>> 2) It looks like Slidy uses a lot of custom staff and it does not  
>> look
>> likely that htlatex would follow this.
>>
>> Hopefully
>>
>> 3) Eitan Gurari will clarify this
>
> Glad to do so. However, I'm not aware of the other postings for
> current issue, as my email filter lets messages from OS X TeX through
> only if they contain any of the following words: tex4ht, xhlatex,
> htlatex, mzlatex, oolatex, laspeak.
>
>> 4) If Slidy becomes popular may be someone will write an  
>> extension  to
>> some pdf-slide package
>> making Slidy output
>
> The Slidy approach seems quite easy to incorporate into translations
> made by tex4ht.  I'll be glad to do so, provided there is an interest
> in having such a feature and the copyright of
>
>   http://www.w3.org/Talks/Tools/Slidy/slidy.js
>
> allows users to include the file in their own directories (that seems
> to be the case: http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/copyright- 
> software).
>
> The support in tex4ht for slide styles is quite scant, mainly due to
> lack of demand from users.  I don't know which latex slide
> classes/styles will be easiest to configure tex4ht for.  In general,
> overlays are the more difficult features to address, if in latex they
> rely on copying and moving code around through the use of setbox and
> output instructions.

I made the original posting. My main point is:
> I have got a lot of teaching material in latex and most of it to be  
> compiled with powerdot. I often use links from pdf documents to  
> anchors within other pdf documents. But now I am preparing to  
> manage my courses within Moodle an it seems difficult for me to  
> link from Moodle pages into pdf files. A few days ago I saw a Slidy  
> presentation (http://www.w3.org/Talks/Tools/Slidy/) the first time  
> and found it fairly nice.
> Compiling my latex sources to Slidy had the advantage that the  
> students are not forced to change between reader and browser.  
> Additionally links can be made easily from Moodle to a single slide.

So, I would appreciate, if I could use tex4ht to convert powerdot  
presentations to html.

Johannes


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