[drupal-devel] author your slides with Drupal next time

[Kieran Lal]

Gabor, this is one that I am personally interested in using.

If you need help writing Administration Help for your module read  
this, file an issue, or ask me to do it.
http://drupal.org/node/24268

Kieran

On Sep 19, 2005, at 11:23 PM, Gabor Hojtsy wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Last fall, Walkah announced an S5 module in the works
> (http://bryght.com/node/121), which was a proof of concept, but was
> never actually released as far as I know. I was way too excited about
> the possibilities, and given that my repeated requests resulted in no
> code from Walkah (due to the apparent reason of not enough time), I  
> sat
> down this weekend, and put together a simple module for S5 authoring
> with the book module. The module is now in Drupal CVS
> (http://drupal.org/cvs?commit=19502)
>
> I know reusing books is still not the ideal solution for slide
> authoring, but since only book has an outline editor in Drupal, it was
> the quickest to use, and I am going to have a presentation on Drupal
> this weekend, so I only had this much time. I have ideas for futher
> improvements (actually either creating a better outline editor for
> books, or abandoning books).
>
> Here is the README reproduced for those interested:
>
> S5 Presentation Module Suite
> ----------------------------
>
> The modules in this suite are supposed to help you author and play
> S5 presentations. S5 is Eric Meyer's "Simple Standards-Based Slide
> Show System", which is based on the Opera Show format. S5
> presentations work in a multitude of browsers, and also compatible
> with Opera Show.
>
>   http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/
>
> Installation requirements
> -------------------------
>
>  - Modules in this folder are compatible with Drupal 4.7
>
>  - S5 itself is not included. You are required to copy the
>    contents of the 'ui' folder from your S5 download to misc/s5.
>    That means you should have files like misc/s5/default/slides.js
>
> The s5_book module
> ------------------
>
> This module allows you to play book pages as S5 presentations.
> Enabling this module, you will get an 'S5 Presentation' link
> by the side of your 'docbook export' and 'opml export' links
> on your book pages. This flattens your book structure, so any
> hierarchies will be lost. You can use hierarchies however to
> structure your presentation properly. Since books only allow
> you to distinguish 30 different page weights, if you have
> more slides, you need to use hierarchies to maintain proper
> ordering. Group your slides by topic, and give your topics
> starter slides.
>
> The first slide is searched for metainformation about your
> slides, which is injected to further slides. An example first
> slide is the following:
>
> <h3 class="s5-author">Name of Author</h3>
> <h4 class="s5-company">Company of Author</h4>
> <!--p class="s5-presdate">Presentation date</p>
> <p class="s5-location">Place, Date and time</p-->
>
> As this example shows, you will have your name and company
> displayed on the slide (the slide and thus the presentation
> title will be the first node title). Since the presentation
> date and location information is in HTML comments, it will
> not be displayed. The s5-presdate value is supposed to be
> something like 20050920. For more detailed information on
> how these values should look like, look into the S5
> documentation.
>
> Other slides should contain HTML like:
>
> <ul>
> <li>point one</li>
> <li>point two</li>
> <li>point three</li>
> </ul>
>
> See the S5 documentation on what else you can use on the
> slides, like handout text, images, incremental display, etc.
>
> Practical usage
> ---------------
>
> Authoring presentations with the book module might not be
> the ideal solution, since it does not allow you to easily
> add and remove slides. For this reason, s5_book module
> adds an 'add book page' link to the book outline editor
> (look into administer >> content >> books). This way,
> the outline editor allows you to quickly view, add and
> remove slides, as well as reorder them.
>
> Possible later modules
> ----------------------
>
> Since authoring slides with the book module is still not the
> ideal way to look at slideshow editing, there are ideas on
> the future direction of supporting S5 authoring. When or
> whether these will be implemented at all is still an open
> question. Contact the maintainer, if you would like to join
> forces.
>
> Credits
> -------
>
> Thanks to Eric Meyer for this fantastic slideshow system.
> The s5_book module and this readme was written by Gabor Hojtsy
> <goba at php.net>.
>
>