Introduction
This slide maker generates HTML files with the official layout approved
by w3m.
It works under UNIX and Windows:
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offline -- while you are thinking about your presentation on the plane
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online -- if you had the time to write it before leaving :)
It is easy, it is nice, it uses style sheets, please use it.
The upgrade procedure is very simple, so feel free to report improvements
and bugs to webreq@w3.org
Download the software
The same package runs on UNIX or Windows (95 or NT).
For offline work grab the archive you need
You can also make your slides online in the directory /afs/w3.org/pub/WWW/Talks/
Installation and upgrade
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OffLine work:
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Unzip the file to your C:\ directory for instance.
This will create 3 directories:
C:\Talks\Tools\ C:\Talks\Icons\ C:\Talks\YYMMsub\
You will put all your presentations in directories under C:\Talks.
If we ever change the layout of the official presentations, the upgrade
will be as simple as updating your C:\Talks\Tools
with the files in /afs/w3/org/pub/WWW/Talks/Tools
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OnLine work:
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You can go to the next step. The upgrade will be transparent.
Procedure overview
To make your presentation you will need to follow these steps:
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setup the directory that will contain your new presentation
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edit the Makefile parameters (talk title, author name, author
URL, logo file name, style sheet file name, font size)
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write the text of your presentation in a file named all.htm
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run the script to build your slides
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update the web space if necessary
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give your presentation
Setup the directory for your new talk
To make a new presentation just copy the directory C:\Talks\YYMMsub\
with all its files to another with an appropriate name including the year,
month and subject of your talk (eg C:\Talks\9612NewTalk)
If you make your slides online, the directory to copy is /afs/w3/org/pub/WWW/Talks/YYMMsub/
We will call the new directory 9612NewTalk/ in
the following.
Edit the Makefile parameters
On Windows edit 9612NewTalk/make.bat, on UNIX
edit 9612NewTalk/Makefile to change the following
parameters:
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TITLE: title of the talk, appears on the table of contents, and in the
<TITLE>
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AUTHOR: name of the author, appears on the footnote
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AUTHOR_URL: link on the author's name, can be left blank ("")
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LOGO: the name of the logo at the bottom of the slides (../Icons/w3c_home.gif
by default)
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STYLE_SHEET: the name of the style sheet file if you need to use another
one than the default (../Tools/w3ctalk.css)
Write the text of your presentation
Edit and modify the HTML file 9612NewTalk/all.htm
to write the text of your presentation. Each top level header <H1> will
be the title of a slide.
9612NewTalk/all.htm will be used
to generate the slides. This HTML file can be written with your favourite
HTML editor. Here is the one used to build the slides
you are reading now.
You can see how the style sheet w3ctalk.css
renders in your browser using this test document test.htm.
Run the script
To build the slides just type make in your directory 9612NewTalk/
(from a DOS box if you are using Windows)
The script will generate an 9612NewTalk/overview.htm
and 9612NewTalk/slide*.htm files.
You can modify your file 9612NewTalk/all.htm and
rebuild your slides as much as you want.
Upload your slides to the Web space
If you have made your presentation offline, it is a good idea to put it
on the web in the directory /afs/w3.org/pub/WWW/Talks.
Just copy your directory C:\Talks\9612NewTalk\
there, and link your presentation from your area or from http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/Talks/Overview.html
Give your presentation
You can either use Netscape or Microsoft Internet Explorer to give your
presentation.
As the generated slides use style sheets, the layout will be better
(today) in Internet Explorer or Netscape Communicator PR2.
Changes Log
To upgrade your tool, just unzip the new archive in the same directory,
it will overwrite the relevent files. Please send comments, requests to
change the common style sheet file to webreq@w3.org
9612: version 1.0
9704: version 1.1
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fixed a bug in <h1>foo</h1> detection
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added variable LOGO in the makefile. Use this to change the logo in your
slides, for instance for WWW6 use ../Icons/www6.gif. By default
it is the regular W3C logo, ../Icons/w3c_home.gif
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added variable STYLE_SHEET in the makefile. Use this if you need a customized
style sheet. Copy the default ../Tools/w3ctalk.css in your new talk
directory and customize that one only. Then link it to your talk using
that variable.
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wrote a test document test.htm
9706: version 2.0
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The script has been rewritten in PERL, there are no more bugs in the <h1>*</h1>
detection
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Added checking for ALT in <IMG> tags