[jsword-devel] Screen shots

[Joe Walker]

Hi Mark,

Sorry but having spent some time converting the output from iGal into
XML (and then fixing the conversion) I discovered that the XSLized
versions look terrible.
Please could you just pick and reasonably decent default theme from
iGal and we'll use them out of the box.
Thanks,

Joe.

On Sat, 28 Aug 2004 16:58:40 +0100, Mark Goodwin <goodwinster at gmail.com> wrote:
> I made an attempt at creating plain HTML pages for use in generating
> image galleries for the website.  Unfortunately igal is way to fussy
> about it's template files to let us do exactly what we want.  I have a
> feeling that my best effort for the day won't be good enough; here are
> the files:
> 
> http://homepage.ntlworld.com/mr_goodwin/bibledesktop/shots.tar.gz
> 
> There are a few problems; the most significant ones are:
> 1) igal breaks when I attempt to put quotes around element attributes.
> 2) igal breaks when I try to alter the case of element names.
> 3) igal breaks when I try to remove the hard coded css style sheet name.
> 4) The element names for the markup around thumbnails in the index
> page are hard coded in the source and not part of the template.
> 
> It seems the first three are due to the fact that the igal code uses
> more than just the capitalised comments to get information on where it
> is in a slide template.
> 
> I've been using a slightly hacked version of igal 1.4; I've modified
> it to allow for non-hidden template, thumbnail and tile files.   If
> anyone fancies getting a headache from some Perl, you can get it here:
> 
> http://homepage.ntlworld.com/mr_goodwin/bibledesktop/igal2.tar
> 
> If not, I may find time to look at it next week.
> 
> The alternative to having igal generate pages for XSLing to the final
> form would be to have the templates look like the desired XSLed
> output; I've had some success with this in the past.
> 
> If you would like to see the current set of screen shots in plain old
> default igal styles, here they are.
> 
> Windows screen shots:
> http://homepage.ntlworld.com/mr_goodwin/bibledesktop/shots/win
> Mac screen shots:
> http://homepage.ntlworld.com/mr_goodwin/bibledesktop/shots/mac
> 
> If anyone wants, I can do some Linux ones too*.
> 
> HTH.
> 
> MarkG
> 
> *Anyone know if Sun is planning on doing anything about the "Swing is
> really ugly under X" thing?  The fonts, in particular, are just
> shocking.  You'd think what with the whole JDS thing they'd at least
> try and do something about it!
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