Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: looking to develop training materials using docbook

[ttg at charter dot net]

Rday,
Errr, it's not a DocBook solution, but StarOffice can
take those files and use them just as is, or even make
them run faster and cleaner, it is available for M$ OSs,
as well as Linux and Solaris.  It is free from Sun Microsystems,
www.sun.com/staroffice/
and is a far, far better tool than the M$ errr..."stuff".

Just my $.02

tim
1/8/02 12:16:46 PM, rpjday <rpjday@mindspring.com> wrote:

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>
>  as a newbie to docbook and xml, i'm hoping someone else
>has done something like this who can give me a hand.
>
>  currently, i have a number of student manuals i use in
>courses that i teach professionally.  for historical reasons,
>those manuals were written using m$ word and powerpoint.
>for each course, i created a set of powerpoint slides for
>projection during the couse (containing, naturally, bullet
>points), while i embedded those same slides in a word document,
>where the slide would take up the top half of each page, and
>the bottom half would be supplementary text.
>
>  this was (and still is) convenient since, no matter where i
>go to teach, there is always a projector hooked up to a windows
>box with powerpoint.
>
>  i'd dearly like to get away from the m$ solution, as long
>as i can do pretty much the same thing -- have a projectable
>presentation with bullet points, and have those same images
>in a larger manual.
>
>  is there a pre-made solution for this?  anyone done something 
>like this that they's care to share with me?  thanks for any
>guidance.
>
>rday
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