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Re: Announce: Simple DocBook/Slides/XSL Stylesheets
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- Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: Announce: Simple DocBook/Slides/XSL Stylesheets
- From: Norman Walsh <ndw at nwalsh dot com>
- Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2000 09:36:11 -0500
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/ "Lossner, Kevin" <KLossner@easy.de> was heard to say:
| This might be a foolish question, but is it reasonable to try to generate
| simple PPT (PowerPoint) files from DocBook XML? Has someone done this?
[ Follow-ups to docbook-apps, please ]
I don't know of anyone whose done it, and I think it'd be fairly tricky.
If you're thinking of trying it, I expect the easiest angle of attack
would be to reverse-engineer the HTML format that MS uses to web-publish
PPTs.
Be seeing you,
norm
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Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> | The stone fell on the pitcher? Woe
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | to the pitcher. The pitcher fell
Chair, DocBook Technical Committee | on the stone? Woe to the
| pitcher.--Rabbinic Saying