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Helmut Steinbach launched a German PerlPoint side at http://www.perlpoint.de/ . It provides documentation, a German quick start for the "perlpoint" generator, a bulletin board and a guest book.

PerlPoint is extended by an API for standard import
filters. While it was already possible to provide
import filters in a PerlPoint source file, as
embedded and referenced Perl code, now there is a
plugin interface that allows to install filters for
standard formats as PerlPoint::Import modules, which
are found automatically.
The API is implemented in PerPoiunt::Package 0.43,
and Pod::PerlPoint 0.06 brings the first standard
filter, to import POD.
Standard filters can be used both at the command line
(use an "IMPORT:" prefix for the filename) and with
the \INCLUDE and \EMBED tags (e.g. \INCLUDE{import=1
file="file.pod"}).... read more

Many PerlPoint packages were updated to produce better (strict) XHTML with the XHTML generators. A few errors were fixed on the way.

The updates include the two all-in-one binary packages for Windows and Linux.

PerlPoint is a flexible tool to produce slides and documentations in (X)HTML, XML, LaTeX and other formats, see http://perlpoint.sf.net.

PerlPoint::Converters was updated to the current CPAN version 1.0205. All changes since the last SourceForge release are listed in the change logs.

PerlPoint is a flexible tool to produce slides and documentations in (X)HTML, XML, LaTeX and other formats, see http://perlpoint.sf.net.

It turned out that the "Zip 6.0" format used for the 0.01 release cannot be unpackaged by all tools, so I rpacked it as 0.01 in an older Zip format.

Users who already downloaded 0.01 can unpack it with the free 7Zip archiver, for example, and do not need to download 0.01a.

PerlPoint is a portable toolset to produce slides, documentations, training materials and more in various formats (including XML, XHTML, S5, SDF and more) from a readable text format. The binary packages (for Linux and Windows) provide easy setup by installation of one executable file (plus optional styles). Please see perlpoint.sf.net for details.... read more

An all-in-one PerlPoint package for Linux is available now, similar to the Windows package released a few days ago. By extracting the executable file from the archive and installing it in his path a user gets ready to use PerlPoint. Supplementary, he might load the PerlPoint::styles package for demo styles.

Again the distribution is made with PAR and bundles all the current modules for the new perlpoint converter. More converters like pp2html will hopefully added in the future. ... read more

PerlPoint now is available as an all-in-one package for Windows, so all a user has to do is to extract the exe file from the archive and install it in his path to use PerlPoint. Supplementary, he might load the PerlPoint::styles package for demo styles.

The distribution is made with PAR and bundles all the current modules for the new perlpoint converter. More converters like pp2html will hopefully added in the future.... read more

With the new Template Toolkit support and a style provided in PerlPoint::styles it is easy now to produce S5 without XML editing, from an easy to read PerlPoint source. A short intro comes with the style S5 in PerlPoint::styles 0.02, in the docs directory.

For details about PerlPoint please see its homepage at perlpoint.sf.net.

PerlPoint styles now can be written with Template Toolkit. A first beta of the support layer module PP::Template::TT2 was just released.

The release is called beta due to lacking tests and documentation. Nevertheless it can be used, as demonstrated in the updated PP::styles package with a new demo style S5 which produces S5 presentations from PerlPoint sources.

See perlpoint.sf.net for details about PerlPoint.

Several PerlPoint packages were updated today: PP::Package, PP::Generator::XML and PP::Generator::XML::XHTML. Besides fixes the most important changes are that all XML based generator now encode entities, XHML formatted output can be produced using templates, nested tables are allowed for XHTML output and the multiple target converter was renamed from pp2tdo to perlpoint. Please see the change logs for more details.... read more

There's a new package, PerlPoint::styles, that contains a set of example styles for the new generator style design started with PerlPoint::Package 0.40. At the moment, it contains an adaptation of the traditional frame/applet layout, plus the style of the German Perl Workshop CDs which makes use of CSS.

sdwdev

The new package PerlPoint::Template::Traditional allows to write (and use) generator styles in the traditional template syntax of pp2html, in an advanced and extended version. This should allow to move existing pp2html styles to generator style versions, and to continue using this syntax for those who are familiar with it.

New features include conditional parts and direct chapter links. Please have a look at the POD docs.... read more

An XML generator for the extended framework of Package 0.40 has been released as PerlPoint::Generator::XML. As the name says, it produces XML output.

Besides a default formatter included into this generator package, additional XML formatters for XHTML output, either monolythic or paged, are provided by the second new distribution, PerlPoint::Generator::XML::XHTML.

sdwdev

A new package version 0.40 has been released, including a (not complete but readable) tutorial and an extended framework called the "generator framework".

The new framework allows to use one converter, pp2tdo, for all target formats. Output is produced
by generators using formatters and template engines.
Generators, formatters and template engines can
be added by Perl modules, with a simpler API than
the old stream interface. Nevertheless, the new API
is built on top of the old, so traditional converters like
pp2html will continue to work with the new package.... read more

The PerlPoint projects released OpenOffice::PerlPoint 0.02, a converter module from Open Office 1.0 / OASIS OpenDocument to PerlPoint. The package includes a standalone utility oo2pp for convenient file transformation.

While still handling only a subset of all the Office format features the module can deal with the most important document parts (headlines, lists, some inline formatting, one level tables, images, code blocks) already.... read more

This update is of interest for users of PP::Package 0.40 only,
as it prepares for changes in this release. Nevertheless, it's
compatible to prior versions of the package, so one can update if wished. Once using PP::P 0.40, an update is strongly recommended.

PerlPointCD is a tool to compose and maintain conference CDs, as well as to build websites presenting conference materials. Initially written to produce the CDs of the German Perl Workshop (www.perlworkshop.de), it now was generalized to be of common use.

PerlPoint builds presentations and docs in various formats (HTML, LaTeX, SDF, PDF, and more) from easy to read and maintain ASCII sources. PerlPoint::Converters provides generators to HTML and LaTeX. With this patch, the HTML generator can make use of the new features introduced in PerlPoint::Package 0.39.

The patch is intended to be an intermediate solution. It shall be replaced by an adapted version of PerlPoint::Converters.... read more

PerlPoint builds presentations and docs in various formats (HTML, LaTeX, SDF, PDF, and more) from easy to read and maintain ASCII sources. PerlPoint::Package is the base framework of the project. Version 0.39, besides fixes and smaller improvements, adds the new feature of automatic page references (or cross references) based on index entries.

A short base installation guide was added to the
document section. Unfortunately, I do not know how to make it visible at the summary page ...

Significantly improved paragraph filters.

New input filters to include existing sources directly, to simplify PerlPoint startup, to enable collegues without PerlPoint experience to quickly provide document parts, or to write parts or complete documents in a language of your choice yourself. A POD filter is included.

Bugfixes and slighter improvements.

Maintenance update to fix a bug in \L tag generation. Dummy variable is now set up internally, no further need for the caller to take care of it.

This is the first public release of Pod::PerlPoint, a package containing the translator module and a ready to run converter pod2pp.

* Introducing library pathes for \INCLUDE.

* Introducing Document Streams.

* Introducing headline shortcuts.

* Significantly improved paragraph filters.

* Improved flagSet() interface.

* Cache bugfixes, cache usable with \REF and \SEQ now.

* More fixes.

* Updated docs.