Re: Some questions and thoughts from a newcomer

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi!

Good to see you here.  :-)

As you noticed, the “maintainer” is not… ahem… very responsive.

Xinglu Chen <public@yoctocell.xyz> skribis:

> I recently discovered Skribilo and I really like it so far!  I have some
> questions thoughts below.
>
> - When compiling to a HTML document, the chapters are aligned in the
>   center, I would prefer to make them left aligned.  Is there are way to
>   do this?

Via CSS.  There are also cases where the HTML engine emits old-style
presentation tags like <center>, and we should really fix that.

> - Taking a quick look at the source code, most of the html seems to be
>   written as strings, would it be possible to refactor it to use SXML
>   instead?

That’d be much appreciated!  This code predates the inclusion of SXML in
Guile (and perhaps the inception of SXML, even.)

> - Using the slide package to export to Latex produces a Latex document
>   that uses the `seminar` document class.  I haven't used `seminar`
>   before, but I would like it to produce a Beamer presentation.  This
>   might require a new backend to be created since I would imagine that
>   `seminar` probably isn't compatible with Beamer.

Probably.  That has suffered from bitrot.

> - I also compiled my slide document to a HTML document, but I am not
>   really sure how I would use the HTML document.  It is just one big
>   page with all the slides in it.

Yeah, not great.

> I would be interested in working on some the things I mentioned, but I
> am still fairly new to Scheme so I won't make any promises. :)

Don’t hesitate to chime in, Skribilo needs some love!

Thanks,
Ludo’.