PresTiMeL - a tool to create HTML presentations

prestimel [OPTIONS] [FILE]

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.

-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 presentation. 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-graphic. 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 disabled 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 provided 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".

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.

LC_MESSAGES

Select the language for the messages. Supported languages are de (German), pt_BR (Portuguese/Brazil), es (Spanish), hu (Hungarian) and fr (French).

$HOME/.prestimelrc

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

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