prestimel(1)

NAME

PresTiMeL - a tool to create HTML presentations

SYNOPSIS

prestimel [OPTIONS] [FILE]

DESCRIPTION

PresTiMeL is a tool to create a presentation out of a XML

file. For each slide, PresTiMeL will create one (or a set of)

HTML-file(s), which can be shown in a Web browser of your choice.

Cascading Stylesheets (CSS) are used to define how big a text

item has to be, which font and color it should have, etc. That

means, you will need a Web browser which supports CSS (like

Netscape 4.* or Internet Explorer 4.*).

Optional, it's possible to create a LaTeX-file, which can

be used to create and print some handouts of the presentation.

OPTIONS

-v, --version

Print the version of PresTiMeL and exit.

-h, --help

Display a short usage-message and a list of all

commandline options.

-l[file.tex], --latex-output[=file.tex]

Create a LaTeX-file ile.tex rather than HTML

slides.

-p DIR, --path-to-themes=DIR

Set the path, where PresTiMeL will look for themes.

-t[theme], --theme[=theme]

Set a theme, which will be used for the presenta

tion. If the given theme doesn't exist or no theme is given, a

list of all availaible themes in the current themepath will be

printed. As the theme is an optional argument, no whitespace is

allowed between the option and the theme.

-c FILE, --config-file=FILE

Use the specified configuration-file to initialize

PresTiMeL's settings. If omitted, PresTiMeL will search for a

config-file .prestimelrc located in your home-directory.

-x, --disable-xml-settings

Disable the settings stored in the XML-file of the

presentation.

-R RES, --resolution=RES

Set the resolution, for which the HTML-presentation

will be optimized. Possible values are 640x480, 800x600 and

1024x768. The default value is 800x600.

-B, --disable-background

Each HTML-slide will have a tiled background-graph

ic. If this option is given, this background-graphic will be

disabled for all slides.

-H, --disable-header

The headline of each slide has an own background

graphic. If this option is given, this background-graphic will

be disabled for all headlines.

-F, --disable-first-last

Each HTML-slide will have navigation-buttons to the

first, the previous, the next and the last slide. If this option

is given, the navigation-buttons to the first and last slide will

be disabled.

-N, --disable-note-button

Each slide may have a note, which is just an own

HTML page with some additional information to the slide. Each

slide that has some notes defined will show a button to access

them. If this option is given, these note-buttons will be dis

abled for all slides.

-S, --sloppy-buttons

Normally, the navigation-buttons will always be

drawn at the bottom of the slide at a fixed position defined in

the stylesheet. If this option is given, the buttons will be

moved down, when the content of the slide is higher than the pro

vided vertical space.

-T, --top-navigation

If this option is given, the navigation-buttons

will be drawn at the top of the slides rather than at the bottom.

-O, --print-outline

This option is related to the LaTeX-output. If

given, the LaTeX-output will use the documentclass "article"

rather than "seminar".

EXAMPLES

prestimel -tplasma -R 1024x768 presentation.xml

Create a HTML presentation from the file

presentation.xml, using the theme plasma and a resolution of

1024x768.

prestimel -p /home/linus/themes -t

List all the themes stored in the directory

/home/linus/themes.

prestimel -l example.xml

Create a LaTeX-file out of the file example.xml.

The name of the LaTeX-file will be presentation.tex and may be

used to print handouts of the presentation.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

LC_MESSAGES

Select the language for the messages. Supported

languages are de (German), pt_BR (Portuguese/Brazil), es (Span

ish), hu (Hungarian) and fr (French).

FILES

$HOME/.prestimelrc

AUTHOR

Bernhard Trummer <bernhard.trummer@gmx.at> Benjamin Drieu

<bdrieu@april.org>

SEE ALSO

prestimelrc(5)

prestimel 10.09.2000

prestimel(1)